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Faint, star-forming galaxies likely play a dominant role in cosmicreionisation. Strides have been made in recent years to characterise thesepopulations at high redshifts ($z>3$). Now for the first time, with JWSTphotometry beyond 1$\,\mu m$ in the rest frame, we can derive accurate stellarmasses and position these galaxies on the galaxy main sequence. We seek toassess the place of 96 individual Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) selected behindthe A2744 lensing cluster with MUSE spectroscopy on the galaxy main sequence.We also compare derived stellar masses to Lyman-alpha luminosities andequivalent widths to better quantify the relationship between the Lyman-alphaemission and the host galaxy. These 96 LAEs lie in the redshift range$2.9<z<6.7$, and their range of masses extends down to$10^6\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ (over half with$\mathrm{M_{\star}}<10^8\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$). We use the JWST/NIRCam and HSTphotometric catalogs from the UNCOVER project, giving us excellent wavelengthcoverage from $450\,\mathrm{nm}$ to $4.5\,\mu m$. We find a main sequencerelation for these low mass LAEs of the form: $\mathrm{log\,SFR}=(0.88\pm0.07 -0.030\pm0.027\times t)\,\mathrm{log\,M_{\star}} - ( 6.31\pm0.41 -0.08\pm0.37\times t)$. This is in approximate agreement with best-fits ofprevious collated studies, however, with a steeper slope and a highernormalisation. This indicates that low-mass LAEs towards the epoch ofreionisation lie above typical literature main sequence relations derived atlower redshift and higher masses. Additionally, comparing our results toUV-selected samples, we see that while low-mass LAEs lie above these typicalmain sequence relations, they are likely not singular in this respect at thesemasses and redshifts. While low-mass galaxies have been shown to play asignificant role in cosmic reionisation, our results point to no specialposition for LAEs in this regard.

Galaxy main sequence and properties of low-mass Lyman-alpha Emitters towards reionisation viewed by VLT/MUSE and JWST/NIRCam