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Quasar outflows can play a crucial role in the evolution of their host galaxies through various feedback processes. This effect is expected to be particularly important when the universe was only 2-3 billion years old, during the period…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Mayank Sharma , Nahum Arav , Maryam Dehghanian , Gwen Walker , Kyle Johnston , Matthew Kaupin , Justin Gandhi

The Epoch of Reionization marks the last major phase transition in the early Universe, during which the majority of neutral hydrogen once filling the intergalactic medium was ionized by the first galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Cody Carr , Renyue Cen , Sophia Flury , Sally Oey , Stephan McCandliss , Allison Strom

An important property of star-forming galaxies at z~1-2 is the high local star-formation intensities they maintain over tens of kiloparsecs at levels that are only observed in the nearby Universe in the most powerful nuclear starbursts. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Le Tiran , M. D. Lehnert , W. van Driel , N. P. H. Nesvadba , P. Di Matteo

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) driven outflows can have a significant impact on the evolution of the host galaxy. In this work, we compare the properties of galaxies that hosts AGNs with and without outflows. Our sample consists of 103 AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-06 Gabriel A. Oio , Y. Sophia Dai , C. G. Bornancini , Zi-Jian Li

The Magellanic Stream and several high velocity clouds have now been detected in optical line emission. The observed emission measures and kinematics are most plausibly explained by photoionization due to hot, young stars in the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bland-Hawthorn , P. R. Maloney

Ionized outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to influence their nuclear and local galactic environment. However, the distance of the outflows with respect to the central engine is poorly constrained, which limits our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 Junjie Mao , J. S. Kaastra , M. Mehdipour , A. J. J. Raassen , Liyi Gu , J. M. Miller

We present a sample of 17 objects from the CALIFA survey where we find initial evidence of galactic winds based on their off-axis ionization properties. We identify the presence of outflows using various optical diagnostic diagrams (e.g.,…

We present an analysis of the MgII 2796, 2803 and FeII 2586, 2600 absorption line profiles in individual spectra of 105 galaxies at 0.3<z<1.4. The galaxies, drawn from redshift surveys of the GOODS fields and the Extended Groth Strip, fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kate H. R. Rubin , J. Xavier Prochaska , David C. Koo , Andrew C. Phillips , Crystal L. Martin , Lucas O. Winstrom

We report on a S/N-limited search for low-ionization gas outflows in the spectra of the 0.11 < z < 0.54 objects in the EGS portion of the DEEP2 survey. Doppler shifts from the host galaxy redshifts are systematically searched for in the Na…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Taro Sato , Crystal L. Martin , Kai G. Noeske , David C. Koo , Jennifer M. Lotz

The formation of massive stars exceeding 10 solar masses usually results in large-scale molecular outflows. Numerical simulations, including ionization, of the formation of such stars show evidence for ionization-driven molecular outflows.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 Thomas Peters , Pamela D. Klaassen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen , Robi Banerjee

Optical emission lines are used to categorize galaxies into three groups according to their dominant central radiation source: active galactic nuclei, star formation, or low-ionization (nuclear) emission regions [LI(N)ERs] that may trace…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-07 Dhanesh Krishnarao , Robert A. Benjamin , L. Matthew Haffner

We present a new, on-the-fly photon flux and absorption tracer algorithm designed to directly measure the contribution of different source populations to the metagalactic UV background and to the ionisation fraction of gas in the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Harley Katz , Taysun Kimm , Martin Haehnelt , Debora Sijacki , Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot

We detect ionized gas characteristics indicative of winds in three disk-dominated galaxies that are members of a super-group at z=0.37 that will merge to form a Coma-mass cluster. All three galaxies are IR-luminous (L_IR > 4 x 10^{10}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Freeland , K-V. Tran , T. Irwin , L. Giordano , A. Saintonge , A. Gonzalez , D. Zaritsky , D. Just

We use a large sample of galaxies at z~3 to establish a relationship between reddening, neutral gas covering fraction (fcov(HI)), and the escape of ionizing photons at high redshift. Our sample includes 933 galaxies at z~3, 121 of which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Naveen A. Reddy , Charles C. Steidel , Max Pettini , Milan Bogosavljevic , Alice Shapley

A detailed spectroscopic study, from lambda 3700 A to 1 um, was performed for a sample of 34 HII galaxies in order to derive fundamental parameters for their HII regions and ionizing sources, as well as gaseous metal abundances. All the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Kehrig , J. M. Vilchez , E. Telles , F. Cuisinier , E. Perez-Montero

Far infrared fine structure line data from the ISO archive have been extracted for several hundred YSOs and their outflows, including molecular (CO) outflows, optical jets and Herbig-Haro (HH) objects. Given the importance of these lines to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Liseau , K. Justtanont , A. G. G. M. Tielens

We investigate the multi-phase structure of gas flows in galaxies. We study 80 galaxies during the epoch of peak star formation ($1.4\leq z\leq2.7$) using data from Keck/LRIS and VLT/KMOS. Our analysis provides a simultaneous probe of…

We present modeling to explore the conditions of the broad-line emitting gas in two extreme Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, using the observational results described in the first paper of this series. Photoionization modeling using Cloudy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Karen M. Leighly

We have performed an unbiased search for outflows from young stars in Cygnus-X using 42 deg$^2$ of data from the UKIRT Widefield Infrared Survey for H$_2$ (UWISH2 survey), to identify shock-excited near-IR H$_2$ emission in the 1$-$0 S(1)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 S. V. Makin , D. Froebrich

Hydrodynamic simulations can connect outflow observables to the physical conditions of outflowing gas. Here, we use simulations of isolated disk galaxies ranging from dwarf mass ($M_{200} = 10^{10}\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$) to Milky Way mass…