Lyman-alpha luminosity (left panels), REW (middle panels), and UV absolute magnitude (M_UV, right panels) distributions per unit volume for redshifts z = 2.4 (top panels), z = 3.1 (middle panels), and z = 4.5 (bottom panels). The solid green line shows the ODIN-COSMOS LAE sample (Lyα Lum ≥ 10⁴² erg s⁻¹ and REW ≥ 20 Å), while the shaded gray area shows the same sample in the TNG100 simulation. The solid blue line shows a randomly selected subset representing 25%, 33%, and 40% of the LAEs in TNG100 at z = 2.4, 3.1, and 4.5, respectively. The shaded pink areas show the latter samples applying a minimum luminosity cut of 10^42.04, 10^42.18, and 10^42.37 erg s⁻¹ (vertical dashed line shown in the left panels), respectively. The shaded orange areas show the REW distributions noisified by photometric uncertainties, while the sky blue shaded regions show the corresponding noisified M_UV distributions (see text).