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The equivalent widths of MgII absorption in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) trace the global star formation rate up to $z<6$, are larger for star-forming galaxies than passively-evolving galaxies, and decrease with increasing distance from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Nikole M. Nielsen , Christopher W. Churchill , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Michael T. Murphy , Jessica L. Evans

We investigate the dependence of gas kinematics and column densities in the MgII-absorbing circumgalactic medium on galaxy color, azimuthal angle, and inclination to trace baryon cycle processes. Our sample of 30 foreground isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Nikole M. Nielsen , Christopher W. Churchill , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Michael T. Murphy , Jessica L. Evans

To study environmental effects on the circumgalactic medium (CGM), we use the samples of redMaPPer galaxy clusters, background quasars and cluster galaxies from the SDSS. With ~82 000 quasar spectra, we detect 197 MgII absorbers in and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Jong Chul Lee , Ho Seong Hwang , Hyunmi Song

We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of galaxies in the vicinity of an ultra-strong MgII \lambda\lambda 2786,2803 absorber of rest-frame absorption equivalent width W_r(2796)=4.2\AA\ at z=0.5624. This absorber was originally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jean-Rene Gauthier

We present a study comparing OVI $\lambda\lambda$1031, 1037 doublet absorption found towards group galaxy environments with that of isolated galaxies. The OVI absorption in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of isolated galaxies has been…

We present observations of 50 pairs of redshift z ~ 0.2 star-forming galaxies and background quasars. These sightlines probe the circumgalactic medium (CGM) out to half the virial radius, and we describe the circumgalactic gas kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Crystal L. Martin , Stephanie H. Ho , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Christopher W. Churchill

We examine the MgII absorbing circumgalactic medium (CGM) for the 182 intermediate redshift (0.072 < z < 1.120) galaxies in the "MgII Absorber-Galaxy Catalog" (MAGIICAT, Nielsen et al.). We parameterize the anti-correlation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nikole M. Nielsen , Christopher W. Churchill , Glenn G. Kacprzak

[Abridged] We examine a sample of 45 Mg II absorption-selected systems over the redshift range 0.4 to 1.4. Mg II and Fe II absorption profiles were observed at a resolution of ~6 km/s with HIRES/Keck. Lyman-alpha and C IV data were measured…

We report new observations of the cool diffuse gas around 29, $2.3<z<6.3$ galaxies, using deep JWST/NIRCam slitless grism spectroscopy around the sightline to the quasar J0100+2802. The galaxies span a stellar mass range of $7.1 \leq \log…

We present the first results from a Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR program, which obtained direct imaging and grism observations of galaxies near quasar sightlines with a high frequency of uncorrelated foreground Mg II absorption. These…

[Abridged] We present 23 quasar absorption line systems selected by the MgII doublet with W_r(2796)>0.3 Ang over the redshift range 0.4<z<1.2. The kinematics are studied at ~6 km/s resolution to a 5-sigma detection threshold of 0.015 Ang.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Chris Churchill , Steven S. Vogt

We present the first spatially resolved characterisation of the cool intragroup medium (IGrM) in a spectroscopically confirmed galaxy group at z=1.167. Using 30 independent sightlines towards the gravitationally lensed galaxy SGAS J0033+02,…

While most galaxies live in group environments where they undergo an accelerated evolution, the characteristics of their circumgalactic medium (CGM) remain uncertain. We present an analysis of the CGM of two galaxy groups in different…

We present a study of the metal-enriched cool halo gas traced by MgII absorption around 228 galaxies at z~0.8-1.5 within 28 quasar fields from the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey. We observe no significant evolution in…

Galaxy evolution is thought to be driven in large part by the flow of gas between galaxies and the circumgalactic medium (CGM), a halo of metal-enriched gas extending out to $\gtrsim100$ kpc from each galaxy. Studying the spatial structure…

We present a spectroscopic and imaging analysis of the $z_{gal} \approx 1.1334$ ultra-strong MgII absorption system identified in the $VLT$/UVES spectrum of a background quasar located at $\rho \approx 18$ kpc from a star-forming galaxy.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Purvi Udhwani , Sameer , Anand Narayanan , Sowgat Muzahid , Jane Charlton , Sebastiano Cantalupo

We describe the MgII Absorber-Galaxy Catalog, MAGIICAT, a compilation of 182 spectroscopically identified intermediate redshift (0.07 < z < 1.1) galaxies with measurements of MgII 2796, 2803 absorption from their circumgalactic medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nikole M. Nielsen , Christopher W. Churchill , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Michael T. Murphy

We obtained ESI/Keck rotation curves of 10 MgII absorption selected galaxies (0.3 < z < 1.0) for which we have WFPC-2/HST images and high resolution HIRES/Keck and UVES/VLT quasar spectra of the MgII absorption profiles. We perform a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 G. G. Kacprzak , C. W. Churchill , D. Ceverino , C. C. Steidel , A. Klypin , M. T. Murphy

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains information on gas flows around galaxies, such as accretion and supernova-driven winds, which are difficult to constrain from observations alone. Here, we use the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological…

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