The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] survey: Small Ly{\alpha}-[CII] velocity offsets in main-sequence galaxies at 4.4 < z < 6.

2020 
The Lya line in the UV and the [CII] line in the FIR are widely used tools to identify galaxies and to get insights about their ISM properties in the Early Universe. Combining data obtained with ALMA in band 7 as part of the ALMA Large Program to INvestigate [CII] at EarlyTimes (ALPINE) with spectroscopic data from DEIMOS/Keck, VIMOS/VLT and FORS2/VLT we assembled an unique sample of 53 main sequence galaxies at 4.4 300km/s), the probability of Lya photons to escape is high and Dv_Lya-[CII]is always small. We suggest that the observed increase of the Lya escape observed in the literature between z~2 and ~6 is not due to a higher incidence of fast outflows at high redshift, but rather to a decrease of NHI in the ISM.
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