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Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool - Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Lyman-alpha as an Astrophysical and Cosmological Tool - Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course, 46
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The hydrogen Lyman-alpha line is of utmost importance to many
fields of astrophysics. This UV line being conveniently redshifted
with distance to the visible and even near infrared wavelength
ranges, it is observable from the ground, and provides the main
observational window on the formation and evolution of high
redshift galaxies. Absorbing systems that would otherwise go
unnoticed are revealed through the Lyman-alpha forest, Lyman-limit,
and damped Lyman-alpha systems, tracing the distribution of
baryonic matter on large scales, and its chemical enrichment. We
are living an exciting epoch with the advent of new instruments and
facilities, on board of satellites and on the ground. Wide field
and very sensitive integral field spectrographs are becoming
available on the ground, such as MUSE at the ESO VLT. The giant
E-ELT and TMT telescopes will foster a quantum leap in sensitivity
and both spatial and spectroscopic resolution, to the point of
being able, perhaps, to measure directly the acceleration of the
Hubble flow. In space, the JWST will open new possibilities to
study the Lyman-alpha emission of primordial galaxies in the near
infrared. As long as the Hubble Space Telescope will remain
available, the UV-restframe properties of nearby galaxies will be
accessible to our knowledge. Therefore, this Saas-Fee course
appears very timely and should meet the interest of many young
researchers.
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