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We report on the galaxy MACSJ0032-arc at z=3.6314 discovered during the Herschel Lensing snapshot Survey of massive galaxy clusters, and strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0032.1+1808. The successful detections of its rest-frame UV,…

Ratios of different ions of the same element encode ionization information independently from relative abundances in quasar absorption line systems, crucial for understanding the multiphase nature and origin of absorbing gas, particularly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 T. J. Cooper , R. A. Simcoe , K. L. Cooksey , R. Bordoloi , D. R. Miller , G. Furezs , M. L. Turner , E. Bañados

In this two-paper series, we present a straightforward mathematical model for synthesizing quasar absorption line profiles from sight lines through idealized, spatial-kinematic models of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Christopher W. Churchill

Quiescent galaxies at $z \gtrsim 2$ are compact and have weak or absent emission lines, making it difficult to spatially resolve their kinematics and stellar populations using ground-based spectroscopy. Gravitationally lensed examples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Andrew B. Newman , Sirio Belli , Richard S. Ellis , Shannon G. Patel

The nearby dwarf galaxy II Zw 40 hosts an intense starburst. At the center of the starburst is a bright compact radio and infrared source, thought to be a giant dense HII region containing ~14,000 O stars. Radio continuum images suggest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Sara Beck , Jean Turner , John Lacy , Thomas Greathouse , Ohr Lahad

Prochter et al. 2006 recently found that the number density of strong intervening 0.5<z<2 MgII absorbers detected in gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow spectra is nearly 4 times larger than in QSO spectra. We have conducted a similar study…

We present the first results from the COS-EDGES survey, targeting the kinematic connection between the ISM and multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) in nine isolated, edge-on galaxies at z~0.2, each probed along its major axis by a…

We use photoionization models designed to reconcile the joint rest-UV-optical spectra of high-z star-forming galaxies to self-consistently infer the gas chemistry and nebular ionization and excitation conditions for ~150 galaxies from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Allison L. Strom , Charles C. Steidel , Gwen C. Rudie , Ryan F. Trainor , Max Pettini

We present an analysis of the MgII 2796, 2803 and FeII 2586, 2600 absorption line profiles in coadded spectra of 468 galaxies at 0.7 < z < 1.5. The galaxy sample, drawn from the Team Keck Treasury Redshift Survey of the GOODS-N field, has a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Kate H. R. Rubin , Benjamin J. Weiner , David C. Koo , Crystal L. Martin , J. Xavier Prochaska , Alison L. Coil , Jeffrey A. Newman

Aims. We aim to search and characterize inflows and outflows of molecular gas in four ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at $z\sim0.2-0.3$ and one distant QSO at $z=6.13$. Methods. We use Herschel PACS and ALMA Band 7 observations of…

From a sample of 109 candidate Ultra-Strong Mg II (USMgII; having rest equivalent width of Mg II absorption, $W_{2796}>3.0$ Angstrom) systems at z=0.4-0.6, we confirm 27 and identify host galaxies of 20 systems based on associated nebular…

The physical conditions of the circumgalactic medium are probed by intervening absorption-line systems in the spectrum of background quasi-stellar objects out to the epoch of cosmic reionization. A correlation between the ionization state…

Using a sample of 166 projected quasar pairs we investigate the influence of active galactic nuclei on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the quasar host galaxies probed using strong Mg II absorption (i.e., $W_{2796}\ge 1\dot{A}$) at impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Paryag Sharma , Raghunathan Srianand , Hum Chand , Labanya Kumar Guha

[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

A triplet of subordinate lines of Mg II exists in the region around the h&k lines. In solar spectra these lines are seen mostly in absorption, but in some cases can become emission lines. The aim of this work is to study the formation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu , Viggo Hansteen

We present spatially-resolved rest-frame optical emission line maps of four galaxies at $z \sim 2$ observed with Keck/OSIRIS to study the physical conditions of the ISM at Cosmic Noon. Our analysis of strong emission line ratios in these…

We present Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) integral field spectroscopy (IFS) observations of rest-frame UV emission lines $\rm Ly\alpha$, C IV $\lambda \lambda$ 1548 \AA, 1550\AA and He II 1640 \AA observed in the circumgalactic medium (CGM)…

We have studied a sample of 415 associated (z_ab z_em; relative velocity with respect to QSO <3000km/s) Mg II absorption systems with 1.0<=z_ab<=1.86, in the spectra of SDSS DR3 QSOs, to determine the dust content and ionization state in…

We use deep MUSE data from the MUDF survey to investigate the cool gas around galaxies at redshifts 0.5 < z < 2. We constructed two samples: one sample for a down-the-barrel analysis, probing outflows via MgII absorption against galaxy…

We investigate galactic-scale outflowing winds in 72 star-forming galaxies at z~1 in the Extended Groth Strip. Galaxies were selected from the DEEP2 survey and follow-up LRIS spectroscopy was obtained covering SiII, CIV, FeII, MgII, and MgI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. A. Kornei , A. E. Shapley , C. L. Martin , A. L. Coil , J. M. Lotz , D. Schiminovich , K. Bundy , K. G. Noeske