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We investigate the environmental dependence of the local gas-phase metallicity in a sample of star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Satellite galaxies with stellar masses in the range $9<\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})<10$ are found to be…

We present a survey for low-ionization metal absorption line systems towards 17 QSOs at redshifts z_em=5.8-6.4. Nine of our objects were observed at high resolution with either Keck/HIRES or Magellan/MIKE, and the remainder at moderate…

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We have investigated the mass-metallicity (M-Z) relation using galaxies at 0.4<z<1.0 from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey and Canada-France Redshift Survey. Deep K and z' band photometry allowed us to measure stellar masses for 69 galaxies.…

We use a set of observational data for galaxy cold gas mass fraction and gas phase metallicity to constrain the content, inflow and outflow of gas in central galaxies hosted by halos with masses between $10^{11} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{12}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhankui Lu , H. J. Mo , Yu Lu

We investigate the geometric distribution of gas metallicities in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around $47$, $z<0.7$ galaxies from the "Multiphase Galaxy Halos" Survey. Using a combination of quasar spectra from HST/COS and from…

We use Chandra X-ray data to measure the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) in 245 massive galaxy clusters selected from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect surveys, spanning redshifts $0<z<1.2$. Metallicities were measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Adam B. Mantz , Steven W. Allen , R. Glenn Morris , Aurora Simionescu , Ondrej Urban , Norbert Werner , Irina Zhuravleva

Using deep narrow-band (NB) imaging and optical spectroscopy from the Keck telescope and MMT, we identify a sample of 20 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at z=0.065-0.90 where the weak auroral emission line, [OIII]4363, is detected at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chun Ly , Matthew A. Malkan , Tohru Nagao , Nobunari Kashikawa , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Masao Hayashi

We used near-infrared integral field spectroscopic observations from the AMAZE and LSD programs to constrain the metallicity in a sample of 40 star forming galaxies at 3<z<5 (most of which at z~3.4). We measure metallicities by exploiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Troncoso , R. Maiolino , V. Sommariva , G. Cresci , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , M. Meneghetti , A. Grazian , A. Cimatti , A. Fontana , T. Nagao , L. Pentericci

We investigate the association between galaxies and metal-enriched and metal-deficient absorbers in the local universe ($z < 0.16$) using a large compilation of FUV spectra of bright AGN targets observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 C. T. Pratt , J. T. Stocke , B. A. Keeney , C. W. Danforth

A search for O VI at redshifts corresponding to Ly-alpha lines in the z_em ~ 2.4 QSOs HE1122-1648 and HE2217-2818 reveals that a substantial fraction of those with H I column densities log N(HI) > 14 (cm^{-2}) are highly ionized and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert F. Carswell , Joop Schaye , Tae-Sun Kim

We present high-resolution UV spectra of absorption-line systems toward the low-z QSO HS0624+6907 (z=0.3700). Coupled with spectroscopic galaxy redshifts, we find that many of these absorbers are integalactic gas clouds distributed within…

Evolution in the measured rest frame ultraviolet spectral slope and ultraviolet to optical flux ratios indicate a rapid evolution in the dust obscuration of galaxies during the first 3 billion years of cosmic time (z>4). This evolution…

We explore the dependence of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation on environment in SDSS, in terms of both over-density and central/satellite dichotomy. We find that at a given stellar mass, there is a strong dependence of metallicity on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Yingjie Peng , Roberto Maiolino

This work aims to provide a first insight into the mass-metallicity (MZ) relation of star-forming galaxies at redshift z~1.4. To reach this goal, we present a first set of nine VVDS galaxies observed with the NIR integral-field spectrograph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Queyrel , T. Contini , E. Perez-Montero , B. Garilli , O. Le Fevre , M. Kissler-Patig , B. Epinat , D. Vergani , L. Tresse , P. Amram , M. Lemoine-Busserolle

The redshift-dependent fraction of color-selected galaxies revealing Lyman alpha emission has become the most valuable constraint on the evolving neutrality of the early intergalactic medium. However, in addition to resonant scattering by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Matthew A. Schenker , Richard S. Ellis , Nick P. Konidaris , Daniel P. Stark

The recent discovery by Cowie \etal and Tytler \etal of metals in the \Lya clouds shows that the intergalactic medium (IGM) at high redshift is contaminated by the products of stars, and suggests that ionizing photons from massive star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Piero Madau , J. Michael Shull

The coevolution of galaxies and their metal content serves as an important test for galaxy feedback models. We analyze the distribution and evolution of metals within the IllustrisTNG simulation suite with a focus on the gas-phase…

I study the relationship between the spatial distribution of intergalactic metals and the masses and ejection energies of the sources that produced them. Over a wide range of models, metal enrichment is dominated by the smallest efficient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Evan Scannapieco

We present Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) measurements of metal abundances in eight 0.083<z<0.321 damped Lyman-\alpha (DLA) and sub-damped Ly-\alpha\ absorption systems serendipitously discovered in the COS-Halos survey. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. J. Battisti , J. D. Meiring , T. M. Tripp , J. X. Prochaska , J. K. Werk , E. B. Jenkins , N. Lehner , J. Tumlinson , C. Thom

We have measured the mass of metals in the molecular gas in 13 submillimetre galaxies at z~4 in which the gas, based on previous observations, lies in a cold rotating disk. We measured the metal masses using either the submillimetre line or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-24 Stephen Eales , Haley Gomez , Loretta Dunne , Simon Dye , Matthew W. L. Smith