Ly alpha Escape in JWST/NIRCam F430M-Selected H alpha Emitters at z 5.5

arXiv:2607.25801 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Cheng Cheng, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang, Fengwu Sun, Edo Ibar, Xin Wang, Haojing Yan, Fang-Ting Yuan, Jia-Sheng Huang, Juan Molina, Malte Brinch

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: 17 pages, 12 figures, ApJ accepted

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• alpha — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chinese Academy of Sciences — 6× in this paper
• Dust Attenuation — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dawn JWST Archive — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• University of Chinese Academy of Sciences — 1× in this paper

Sources

• It's More Complicated Than You Think: A Forward Model to Infer the Recent Star Formation History, Bursty or Not, of Galaxy Populations
• Using Ly$\alpha$ Transmitted Spectrum to Probe IGM Transmission and Identify Ionized Structures in Cosmic Reionization
• JWST ASPIRE: How Did Galaxies Complete Reionization? Evidence for Excess IGM Transmission around ${\rm [O\,{\scriptstyle III}]}$ Emitters during Reionization
• Spatially Resolved AGN Ionization and Star Formation at Cosmic Noon with JWST/JEMS
• All the Little Things in Abell 2744: $>$1000 Gravitationally Lensed Dwarf Galaxies at $z=0-9$ from JWST NIRCam Grism Spectroscopy
• Lyman-alpha emission at the end of reionization: line strengths and profiles from MMT and JWST observations at z~5-6

Related papers

• Apparent Stability in Self-Gravitating Turbulence and the Evolution of Molecular Clouds
• Two sets of potential-density basis pairs for the study of radial perturbations in collisionless spherical stellar systems
• Constraining reionization-era Ly alpha escape with JELS-MUSE: a highly complete H alpha-selected sample at z about6.1
• Deriving volume density profiles of filaments from observed surface densities
• Little Red Dots and Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation in Ultralight Dark Matter Halos
• MEGATRON: how the first stars can create an iron metallicity plateau in the smallest dwarf galaxies