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We study the link between galaxies and HI-selected absorption systems at z~3-4 in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, an ESO large programme consisting of integral field pectroscopic observations of 28 quasar fields…

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…

We have initiated a survey of MgII 2796, 2803 absorbers near known galaxies at projected distances rho<~100 h^-1 kpc to a background QSO, in order to constrain the extent and covering fraction of Mg^+ ions around galaxies of different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hsiao-Wen Chen , Jeremy L. Tinker

In this review, I discuss some highlights of recent research on molecular gas in galaxies; large-scale CO maps of nearby galaxies are being made, which extend our knowledge on global properties, radial gradients, and spiral structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Combes

Quasar absorption lines provide detailed information on the chemical, kinematic, and ionization conditions in galaxies and their environments, and provide a means for studying the evolution of these conditions back to the epoch of the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jane C. Charlton , Christopher W. Churchill

The distribution of gas and metals in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a critical role in how galaxies evolve. The MUSE-ALMA Halos survey combines MUSE, ALMA and HST observations to constrain the properties of the multi-phase gas in…

The physical origin of the large-scale conformity in the colours and specific star formation rates of isolated low mass central galaxies and their neighbours on scales in excess of 1 Mpc is still under debate. One possible scenario is that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Guinevere Kauffmann

We present new MUSE observations of quasar field Q2131-1207 with a log N(HI)=19.50+/-0.15 sub-DLA at z_abs=0.42980. We detect four galaxies at a redshift consistent with that of the absorber where only one was known before this study. Two…

We investigate the properties of cold gas at $10^4~\rm K$ around star-forming galaxies at $z~\sim~1$ using Mg II spectra through radiative transfer modeling. We utilize a comprehensive dataset of 624 galaxies from the MAGG and MUDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Seok-Jun Chang , Rajeshwari Dutta , Max Gronke , Michele Fumagalli , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Matteo Fossati

The hot gaseous halos of galaxies likely contain a large amount of mass and are an integral part of galaxy formation and evolution. The Milky Way has a 2e6 K halo that is detected in emission and by absorption in the OVII resonance line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Edmund J. Hodges-Kluck , Matthew J. Miller , Joel N. Bregman

Many of the baryons in our Galaxy probably lie outside the well known disk and bulge components. Despite a wealth of evidence for the presence of some gas in galactic halos, including absorption line systems in the spectra of quasars, high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-10 Huanian Zhang , Dennis Zaritsky

We perform a systematic study of physical properties and distribution of neutral and ionised gas in the halo of the Milky Way (MW). Beside the large neutral intermediate- and high-velocity cloud (IVC, HVC) complexes there exists a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-07-21 N. Ben Bekhti , P. Richter , B. Winkel , J. Kerp , P. Kalberla , U. Klein , M. T. Murphy

HI observations have revealed large gaseous extensions in interacting and merging systems. The interstellar gas is obviously dragged out in tidal tails during an encounter, and the percentage of HI in the tails increases with the merging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

Recent observations have shown that (some) metal line absorption systems in QSO spectra arise from gas in galactic halos with radii much larger than the optical radii of galaxies. We show that the observed galaxy-absorber connections are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Mo

The lopsidedness of galaxies is a commonly observed phenomenon, and through different studies, it has been observed that nearly 30% of galaxies show this phenomenon. In this work, we study morphological lopsidedness in both stellar and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Prerana Biswas , Narendra Nath Patra , Veselina Kalinova

We present a measurement of the mean density profile of Ca II gas around galaxies out to ~ 200 kpc, traced by Fraunhofer's H & K absorption lines. The measurement is based on cross-correlating the positions of about one million foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Guangtun Zhu , Brice Ménard

We outline theoretical predictions for extended emission from MgII, tracing cool ~10^4 K gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of star-forming galaxies in the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Dylan Nelson , Chris Byrohl , Celine Peroux , Kate H. R. Rubin , Joseph N. Burchett

High resolution rest frame UV quasar absorption spectra covering low and high ionization species, as well as the Lyman series lines, provide remarkably detailed information about the gaseous phases of galaxies and their environments. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jane C. Charlton

A hot phase of the interstellar medium has now been detected and studied in several objects through its X-ray emission. A proper assessment of its characteristics is relevant for our understanding of several aspects of galaxy properties,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ginevra Trinchieri