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We present the results of a MgII absorption-line survey using QSO spectra from the SDSS EDR. Over 1,300 doublets with rest equivalent widths greater than 0.3\AA and redshifts $0.366 \le z \le 2.269$ were identified and measured. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. B. Nestor , D. A. Turnshek , S. M. Rao

We report on the detection of a z_gal=0.101 galaxy projected on the sky at 4.2 arcsec (or 5.2 h^{-1} kpc for q_o=0.5) from the quasar Q 0439-433 (z_em=0.594). The HST spectrum of the quasar shows strong MgII, FeII, SiII, AlII and CIV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Patrick Petitjean , Bertrand Theodore , Alain Smette , Yannick Lespine

We present the results from the search for Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) in the proximity of 11 CIV absorption systems at $z > 4.7$ in the spectrum of the QSO J1030+0524, using data from MUSE. We have found multiple LAE candidates close to…

JWST observations have revealed rare galaxies with UV spectra exhibiting intense lines of nitrogen, indicative of super-solar N/O abundances at low metallicity. To better understand these enigmatic objects and provide new constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 I. Morel , D. Schaerer , R. Marques-Chaves , N. Prantzos , C. Charbonnel , G. Brammer , M. Xiao , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky

Moderate resolution spectra have been recorded for a sample of radio-selected QSOs (z=2.5) discovered in the ``Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters'' (FIRST) VLA survey. This work is motivated by the study of a heterogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gordon T. Richards

We carried out a Subaru and UKIRT near infrared imaging survey for H-alpha emitting galaxies around two pair quasar systems (Q0301-005/Q0302-003 and Q2343+125/Q2344+125), and a triple quasar system (KP76/KP77/KP78). Narrow band near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Toru Misawa , Nobunari Kashikawa , Youichi Ohyama , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Masanori Iye

Lyman Limit systems (LLSs) trace the low-density circumgalactic medium and the most dense regions of the intergalactic medium, so their number density and evolution at high redshift, just after reionisation, are important to constrain. We…

Prochter et al. 2006 recently found that the number density of strong intervening 0.5<z<2 MgII absorbers detected in gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow spectra is nearly 4 times larger than in QSO spectra. We have conducted a similar study…

So far the masses of about 50 active galactic nuclei have been measured through the reverberation mapping technique (RM). Most measurements have been performed for objects of moderate luminosity and redshift, based on H$\beta$, which is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Trevese , M. Perna , F. Vagnetti , F. G. Saturni , M. Dadina

While traditionally associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN), the properties of the CII] ($\lambda=2326$\,{\AA}), CIII] ($\lambda,\lambda=1907,1909$\,{\AA}) and CIV ($\lambda,\lambda=1549, 1551$\,{\AA}) emission lines are still…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Andra Stroe , David Sobral , Jorryt Matthee , João Calhau , Ivan Oteo

We present an investigation of the rest-frame optical/UV and X-ray properties for a sample of 3027 X-ray selected quasars between $1.5 \leq z \leq 3.5$ detected in the deepest Spectrum Roentgen Gamma/eROSITA data available and observed by…

In the near future, measurements of metal absorption features in the intergalactic medium (IGM) will become an important constraint on models of the formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies, the properties of the first stars, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-11 Roban Hultman Kramer , Zoltán Haiman , Piero Madau

We have obtained spatially resolved spectra of the z=3.911 triply imaged QSO APM08279+5255 using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We study the line of sight equivalent width (EW)…

We present an analysis of \textit{HST}/COS/G160M observations of CIV in the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a novel sample of eight z$\sim$0, L$\approx$L$^{\star}$ galaxies, paired with UV-bright QSOs at impact parameters…

We present a theoretical model to predict the properties of an observed $z =$ 5.72 Lyman $\alpha$ emitter galaxy - CIV absorption pair separated by 1384 comoving kpc/h. We use the separation of the pair and an outflow velocity/time…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 L. A. García , E. Tescari , E. V. Ryan-Weber , J. S. B. Wyithe

We present the results of photoionization modeling of nine weak MgII (W_r<0.3 Ang) quasar absorption line systems with redshifts 1.4<z<2.4 obtained with the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ryan S. Lynch , Jane C. Charlton

We present a detailed study of the column density and covering fraction profiles of C IV absorption around 86 redshift $z \approx 3.3$ Ly$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) detected in 8 Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) fields of $1'\times 1'$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Eshita Banerjee , Sowgat Muzahid , Joop Schaye , Sean D. Johnson , Sebastiano Cantalupo

We describe a search for redshifted [C II] in a z=3.137 damped Ly-alpha absorption system that has a large neutral hydrogen column density and which was controversially reported to be a source of CO emission, indicative of rapid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rob Ivison , A. P. Harrison , I. M. Coulson

We present high resolution radio data at 3.5 and 20 cm from the VLA in the A configuration for 144 quasars with known CIV absorption line properties. Using these measurements, we compare and contrast a number of quasar orientation…