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We present analysis of local large scale flows using the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) Survey for the distances to 300 early-type galaxies. Our models of the distribution function of mean velocity and velocity dispersion at each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 John L. Tonry , John P. Blakeslee , Edward A. Ajhar , Alan Dressler

[Abridged] With VLT/X-shooter, we obtain optical and NIR spectra of six Ly-alpha blobs at z~2.3. Using three measures --- the velocity offset between the Lya line and the non-resonant [OIII] or H-alpha line (Dv_Lya), the offset of stacked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Yujin Yang , Ann Zabludoff , Knud Jahnke , Romeel Davé

We present initial results of a program to obtain and analyze HST WFPC2 images of galaxies identified in an imaging and spectroscopic survey of faint galaxies in fields of HST spectroscopic target QSOs. We measure properties of 87 galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. -W. Chen , K. M. Lanzetta , J. K. Webb , X. Barcons

We discuss the origin and physical nature of the Lya forest absorption systems as found in hydrodynamical simulations of the Intergalactic Medium in a standard Cold Dark Matter cosmology (Omega=1, H0=50 km/s/Mpc, sigma_8=0.7). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-26 Yu Zhang , Avery Meiksin , Peter Anninos , Michael L. Norman

We use the standard, adiabatic shell evolution to predict the size distribution N(R) for populations of OB superbubbles in a uniform ISM. We derive N(R) for simple cases of superbubble creation rate and mechanical luminosity function (MLF).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. S. Oey , C. J. Clarke

We consider possible observational consequences of dust and metals in \lya forest clouds. We relate the dust content, $\Omega_d^{Lya}$, to the metal evolution of the absorbers and assume that dust is heated by the ultraviolet background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ferrara , B. Nath , S. Sethi , Yu. Shchekinov

Galactic outflows are critical to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. However the details of the underlying feedback process remain unclear. We compare Ly$\alpha$ observations of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Lyman…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Andrew S. Chung , Mark Dijkstra , Benedetta Ciardi , Koki Kakiichi , Thorsten Naab

Galaxies are thought to grow through accretion; as less massive galaxies are disrupted and merge over time, their debris results in diffuse, clumpy stellar halos enveloping the central galaxy. Here we present a study of the variation in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Allison Merritt , Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham , Jielai Zhang

The intergalactic medium (IGM) is believed to contain the majority of baryons in the universe and to trace the same dark matter structure as galaxies, forming filaments and sheets. Lya absorbers, which sample the neutral component of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Sietske J. D. Bouma , Philipp Richter , Martin Wendt

We have used 4000 \AA\ break and H$\delta_A$ indices in combination with SFR/M* derived from emission line flux measurements, to constrain the recent star formation histories of galaxies with stellar masses in the range 10**8-10**10 Msol.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-03 Guinevere Kauffmann

We report on new imaging observations of the Lyman alpha emission line (Lya), performed with the Hubble Space Telescope, that comprise the backbone of the Lyman alpha Reference Sample (LARS). We present images of 14 starburst galaxies at…

Hypersonic bipolar outflows are a ubiquitous phenomena associated with both young and highly evolved stars. Observations of Planetary Nebulae, the nebulae surrounding Luminous Blue Variables such as $\eta$ Carinae, Wolf Rayet bubbles, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adam Frank

During September 2023 the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft was used to map diffuse Lyman alpha (Lya) emission over most of the sky, at a range of 56.9 AU from the Sun. At that distance, models predict that…

We present the results of a Lya profile analysis of 12 Lya emitters (LAEs) at z = 2.2 with high-resolution Lya spectra. We find that all 12 objects have a Lya profile with the main peak redward of the systemic redshift defined by nebular…

Radio continuum observations of external galaxies provide us with an excellent outside view on the distribution of cosmic-ray electrons in the disc and halo. In this review, we summarise the current state of what we have learned from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-16 Volker Heesen

Detecting the change of a cosmological object's redshift due to the time evolution of the Universal expansion rate is an ambitious experiment that will be attempted with future telescope facilities. In this paper, we describe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-12 Ryan Cooke

We investigate the properties of the galaxies that reionized the Universe and the history of cosmic reionization using the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their environments" (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Mahavir Sharma , Tom Theuns , Carlos Frenk , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Observations of metal lines in $\lyal$ absorption systems of small H~I column density and their ubiquitous nature suggest that the intergalactic medium (IGM) was enriched to about $Z \sim 0.01 \> Z_{\odot}$ by a redshift $z \sim 3$. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Biman Nath , Neil Trentham

The eROSITA bubbles are detected via the instrument with the same name. The northern bubble shows noticeable asymmetric features, including distortion to the west and enhancement in the eastern edge, while the southern counterpart is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-14 Guobin Mou , Dongze Sun , Taotao Fang , Wei Wang , Ruiyu Zhang , Feng Yuan , Yoshiaki Sofue , Tinggui Wang , Zhicheng He

In order to shed light on how galactic properties depend on the intergalactic medium (IGM) environment traced by the Ly$\alpha$ forest, we observationally investigate the IGM-galaxy connection using the publicly available 3D IGM tomography…