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most citedCharacterizing Extreme Emission Line Galaxies I: A Four-Zone Ionization Model for Very-High-Ionization Emission

102 citations · 604 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Implications of Broad [O III] 4364 and UV Line Emission in Two Little Red Dots at z ~ 7 - 8

Casey Papovich, Kaila Ronayne, Weida Hu +17

We present deep, NIRSpec G140M and G395M spectroscopy of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at z = 6.68 and z = 8.35. Both LRDs show broad Balmer and [O III] 4364 emission. The broad [O III…

astro-ph.GA2026

LEGGOS I: The JWST LEGGOS Survey -- LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures -- Unpacks the Nature of Clumpy Star Formation and Quenching in Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies beyond Cosmic Noon

Gourav Khullar, Michael Florian, Matthew B. Bayliss +34

We present first results from the JWST LEGGOS Survey (LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures), aimed at studying the physics of clumpy star formation and quenching in e…

astro-ph.GA2025

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JWST & the Waz Arc I: Spatially Resolving the Physical Conditions within a Post-Starburst Galaxy at Redshift 5 with NIRSpec IFS

Taylor A. Hutchison, Gourav Khullar, Jane R. Rigby +22

We present NIRSpec/IFS observations of a rest-frame UV-bright, massive ( M, ) galaxy highly magnified by gravitational-lensing observed just…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025

Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish Between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities

Nikko J. Cleri, Grace M. Olivier, Bren E. Backhaus +24

High-redshift observations from JWST indicate that optical strong line ratios do not carry the same constraining power as they do at low redshifts. Critically, this prevents a sepa…

astro-ph.GA2024

NGC 628 in SIGNALS: Explaining the Abundance-Ionization Correlation in HII Regions

Ray Garner, Robert Kennicutt, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton +5

The variations of oxygen abundance and ionization parameter in HII regions are usually thought to be the dominant factors that produced variations seen in observed emission line sp…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

The Sunburst Arc with JWST: III. An Abundance of Direct Chemical Abundances

Brian Welch, T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, Jane Rigby +11

We measure the gas-phase abundances of the elements He, N, O, Ne, S, Ar, and Fe in an individual H\textsc{ii} region known to be leaking Lyman-continuum photons in the Sunburst Arc…

astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of Diffuse Hot Gas Around the Young, Potential Superstar Cluster H72.97-69.39

Trinity L. Webb, Jennifer A. Rodriguez, Laura A. Lopez +6

We present the first Chandra X-ray observations of H72.97-69.39, a highly-embedded, potential super-star cluster (SSC) in its infancy located in the star-forming complex N79 of the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

TEMPLATES: Direct Abundance Constraints for Two Lensed Lyman-Break Galaxies

Brian Welch, Grace M. Olivier, Taylor A. Hutchison +19

Using integrated spectra for two gravitationally lensed galaxies from the JWST TEMPLATES Early Release Science program, we analyze faint auroral lines, which provide direct measure…

astro-ph.IM2023

TEMPLATES: A Robust Outlier Rejection Method for JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Spectroscopy

Taylor A. Hutchison, Brian D. Welch, Jane R. Rigby +13

We describe a custom outlier rejection algorithm for JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy. This method uses a layered sigma clipping approach that adapts clipping thresholds ba…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

JWST Early Release Science Program TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and their Extended Star formation

Jane R. Rigby, Joaquin D. Vieira, Kedar A. Phadke +33

This paper gives an overview of TEMPLATES, a JWST Early Release Science program that targeted four extremely bright, gravitationally lensed galaxies: two extremely dusty, two with…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

JWST's TEMPLATES for Star Formation: The First Resolved Gas-Phase Metallicity Maps of Dust-Obscured Star-Forming Galaxies at 4

Jack E. Birkin, Taylor A. Hutchison, Brian Welch +23

We present the first spatially resolved maps of gas-phase metallicity for two dust-obscured star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at 4, from the JWST TEMPLATES Early Release Scienc…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 66 cited

Spatial variations in aromatic hydrocarbon emission in a dust-rich galaxy

Justin S. Spilker, Kedar A. Phadke, Manuel Aravena +35

Dust grains absorb half of the radiation emitted by stars throughout the history of the universe, re-emitting this energy at infrared wavelengths. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 44 cited

Using [Ne V]/[Ne III] to Understand the Nature of Extreme-Ionization Galaxies

Nikko J. Cleri, Grace M. Olivier, Taylor A. Hutchison +14

Spectroscopic studies of extreme-ionization galaxies (EIGs) are critical to our understanding of exotic systems throughout cosmic time. These EIGs exhibit spectral features requiri…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

A Multiwavelength Study of the Massive Colliding Wind Binary WR 20a: A Possible Progenitor for Fast-Spinning LIGO Binary Black Hole Mergers

Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Katie Auchettl +7

WR 20a is the most massive close-in binary known in our Galaxy. It is composed of two 80 M Wolf-Rayet stars with a short period of 3.7 days in the open cl…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

CLEAR: High-Ionization [Ne V] 3426 Emission-line Galaxies at

Nikko J. Cleri, Guang Yang, Casey Papovich +13

We analyze a sample of 25 [Ne V] 3426 emission-line galaxies at using Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 G102 and G141 grism observations from the CANDELS Ly…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

Characterizing Extreme Emission Line Galaxies II: A Self-Consistent Model of Their Ionizing Spectrum

Grace M. Olivier, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm +3

Observations of high-redshift galaxies ( 5) have shown that these galaxies have extreme emission lines with equivalent widths much larger than their local star-forming counter…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 102 cited

Characterizing Extreme Emission Line Galaxies I: A Four-Zone Ionization Model for Very-High-Ionization Emission

Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm, Dawn K. Erb +3

Stellar population models produce radiation fields that ionize oxygen up to O+2, defining the limit of standard HII region models (<54.9 eV). Yet, some extreme emission line galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 62 cited

Evolution of Stellar Feedback in HII Regions

Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Anna L. Rosen +4

Stellar feedback is needed to produce realistic giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and galaxies in simulations, but due to limited numerical resolution, feedback must be implemented usi…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 82 cited

Temperature and Metallicity Gradients in the Hot Gas Outflows of M82

Laura A. Lopez, Smita Mathur, Dustin D. Nguyen +2

We utilize deep Chandra X-ray Observatory imaging and spectra of M82, the prototype of a starbursting galaxy with a multiphase wind, to map the hot plasma properties along the mino…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 85 cited

Intense CIV and HeII Emission in z~0 Galaxies: Probing High-Energy Ionizing Photons

Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm, Dawn K. Erb +3

In the last few years, prominent high-ionization nebular emission lines (i.e., OIII], CIII], CIV, HeII) have been observed in the deep UV spectra of z~5-7 galaxies, indicating that…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 84 cited

A comprehensive search for stellar bowshock nebulae in the Milky Way: a catalog of 709 mid-infrared selected candidates

Henry A. Kobulnicky, William T. Chick, Danielle P. Schurhammer +8

We identify 709 arc-shaped mid-infrared nebula in 24 micron Spitzer Space Telescope or 22 micron Wide Field Infrared Explorer surveys of the Galactic Plane as probable dusty inters…