High-redshift Insights from Low-redshift Galaxies
Abstract
I will summarize results from an extensive multi-wavelength observational campaign to dissect local star-forming galaxies. The Lyman alpha Reference Sample, LARS, comprises ~55 local systems, selected in various ways (FUV luminosity, IR luminosity, H-alpha EW) to provide the closest analogues systems for galaxies that are routinely discovered in high-z surveys and dominate cosmic star formation at various epochs beyond z of 1. The data-set is complete with 8 band HST imaging (5 broadband, plus H-alpha, H-beta, and Ly-alpha narrowbands), HST/COS ultraviolet spectroscopy, direct HI measurements from 21 cm interferometry (GMRT and J-VLA), optical integral field spectroscopy (CAHA/PMAS or VLT/MUSE), far IR emission lines (Herschel or SOFIA), and more.For this talk I will focus on kinematic measurements in warm-ionized, warm-neutral, and cold-neutral interstellar media. I will discuss feedback from massive stars, and how local gas kinematics and ionization states is connected to the properties of the massive stellar population. I will also discuss the extended halos of Ly-alpha that arise when large HI envelopes scatter the radiation produced by recombinations in the HII. I will quantify the extents of Ly-alpha scattering halos, and contrast these with direct observations of HI, HII, and metal lines to show how the halos arise under certain conditions in the ionized and neutral media. With results from low-z galaxies in place I will discuss the validity of using Ly-alpha and UV absorption lines for measuring the properties of gas in the circumgalactic medium of high-z galaxies.
- Publication:
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IAU General Assembly
- Pub Date:
- August 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUGA..2256902H