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Deep, 17.8 hours, narrow band imaging obtained at the ESO 3.5m New Technology Telescope has revealed extended (galaxy sized) Ly-alpha emission from a high redshift Lyman limit absorber. The absorber is a z(abs) approx. z(em) Lyman limit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. U. Fynbo , B. Thomsen , P. Moller

Using deep Keck spectroscopy of Lyman break galaxies selected from infrared imaging data taken with WFC3/IR onboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we present new evidence for a reversal in the redshift-dependent fraction of star forming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. A. Schenker , D. P Stark , R. S. Ellis , B. E. Robertson , J. S. Dunlop , R. J. McLure , J. -P. Kneib , J. Richard

Observations of the QSO HE 0153-4520 (z-em = 0.450) with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) from 1134 to 1796 A with a resolution of ~17 km/s and signal-to- noise per resolution element of 20 to 40 are used to study a multi-phase partial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. D. Savage , A. Narayanan , N. Lehner , B. P. Wakker

We derive the statistical properties of neutral gas at redshifts 0.11<z<1.65 from UV measurements of quasar Lyman alpha absorption lines corresponding to 369 MgII systems with $W^{\lambda2796}_{0} \ge 0.3$ \AA. In addition to the 41 damped…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Sandhya M. Rao , David A. Turnshek , Gendith M. Sardane , Eric M. Monier

We present new high-precision measurements of the opacity of the intergalactic and circumgalactic medium (IGM, CGM) at <z>=2.4. Using Voigt profile fits to the full Lyman alpha and Lyman beta forests in 15 high-resolution high-S/N spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gwen C. Rudie , Charles C. Steidel , Alice E. Shapley , Max Pettini

We report results on the incidence and cosmological mass density of damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) systems at redshifts less that 1.65. We used HST and an efficient non-traditional (but unbiased) survey technique to discover DLA systems at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sandhya M. Rao , David A. Turnshek

The quasar in the Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS), J2233-606 (z=2.23) has been exhaustively observed by ground based telescopes and by the STIS spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope at low, medium and high resolution in the…

We present results on the evolution and clustering of Ly-alpha lines at low z. The sample contains 1298 Ly-alpha lines from 165 quasar spectra mined from the archives of the HST/FOS. Our sample extends to z=1.7, slightly higher than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam Dobrzycki , Jill Bechtold , Jennifer Scott , Miwa Morita

We present the first results from our KODIAQ Z survey aimed to determine the metallicity distribution and physical properties of the z>2 partial and full Lyman limit systems (pLLSs and LLSs; 16.2<log N(HI)<19), which are probed of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Nicolas Lehner , John M. O'Meara , J. Christopher Howk , J. Xavier Prochaska , Michele Fumagalli

(abridged) We present results of a search for Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ~ 5 in a 618 square-arcmin field including the HDF-N taken by Subaru Prime Focus Camera. Utilizing the published redshift data of the HDF-N and its flanking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Iwata , K. Ohta , N. Tamura , M. Ando , S. Wada , C. Watanabe , M. Akiyama , K. Aoki

We present an estimate of the cosmological evolution of the field galaxy luminosity function (LF) in the rest frame 4400 Angstrom B -band up to redshift z=3.5. To this purpose, we use a composite sample of 1541 I--selected galaxies selected…

Quasar absorbers provide a powerful observational tool with which to probe both galaxies and the intergalactic medium up to high redshift. We present a study of the evolution of the column density distribution, f(N,z), and total neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Celine Peroux , Mike J. Irwin , Richard G. McMahon , Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi

We investigate how damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) at z ~ 2-3, detected in large optical spectroscopic surveys of quasars, trace the population of star-forming galaxies. Building on previous results, we construct a model based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 J. -K. Krogager , P. Møller , L. B. Christensen , P. Noterdaeme , J. P. U. Fynbo , W. Freudling

Combining 66 ultraviolet (UV) spectra and ancillary data from the Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS) and 23 LyC observations by earlier studies, we form a statistical sample of star-forming galaxies at $z \sim 0.3$ to study the…

We present the results of an unbiased search for Ly{\alpha} emission from continuum-selected 6 < z < 8 galaxies. Our dataset consists of 160 orbits of G102 slitless grism spectroscopy obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide…

We present a study of the galaxy environment of 9 strong HI+CIV absorption line systems ($16.2<{\rm log}(N({\rm HI}))<21.2$) spanning a wide range in metallicity at $z\sim4-5$, using MUSE integral field and X-Shooter spectroscopic data…

We present a study of 7 star-forming galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The galaxies are located at relatively low redshifts,…

We measured metallicities for 33 z=3.4-4.2 absorption line systems drawn from a sample of H I-selected-Lyman limit systems (LLSs) identified in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar spectra and stratified based on metal line features. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-09 Ana Glidden , Thomas J. Cooper , Kathy L. Cooksey , Robert A. Simcoe , John M. O'Meara

Using Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based U through K- band photometry from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), we measure the evolution of the luminosity function and luminosity density in the rest-frame optical (UBR)…

We have discovered six galaxies with spectroscopically confirmed redshifts of 4.8<z<5.8 in a single 44 square arcminute field imaged deeply in R, I and z-bands. All the spectra show an emission-line in the region around 7000-8400 angstroms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew D. Lehnert , Malcolm Bremer