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most citedExploring Reionization-Era Quasars III: Discovery of 16 Quasars at with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at

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20 papers

astro-ph.GA2023

The One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN): Survey Design and Science Goals

Kyoung-Soo Lee, Eric Gawiser, Changbom Park +39

We describe the survey design and science goals for ODIN (One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands), a NOIRLab survey using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to obtain deep (AB~…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

Spectroscopic Confirmation of two Extremely Massive Protoclusters BOSS1244 and BOSS1542 at

Dongdong Shi, Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan +3

We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new massive galaxy protoclusters at , BOSS1244 and BOSS1542, traced by groups of Coherently Strong Ly Absorption (CoS…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

The Role of Dust, UV Luminosity and Large-scale Environment on the Escape of Lya Photons: A Case Study of a Protocluster field at z = 3.1

Yun Huang, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Ke Shi +3

We present a detailed characterization of the Lya properties for 93 Lya emitters (LAEs) at z~3.1 selected from the D1 field of the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Legacy Survey, inc…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Lyman Alpha line properties at and their environmental dependence: a case study around a massive proto-cluster

Nicola Malavasi, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Arjun Dey +3

Ly-emitting galaxies (LAEs) are easily detectable in the high-redshift Universe and are potentially efficient tracers of large scale structure at early epochs, as long as their…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

A Closer Look at Two of the Most Luminous Quasars in the Universe

Jan-Torge Schindler, Xiaohui Fan, Mladen Novak +7

Ultra-luminous quasars () provide us with a rare view into the nature of the most massive and most rapidly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Following…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 70 cited

A Complete Census of Circumgalactic MgII at Redshift z<~ 0.5

Yun-Hsin Huang, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Stephen A. Shectman +5

We present a survey of MgII absorbing gas in the vicinity of 380 random galaxies, using 156 background quasi-stellar objects(QSOs) as absorption-line probes. The sample comprises 2…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

Measuring the total infrared light from galaxy clusters at z=0.5-1.6: connecting stellar populations to dusty star formation

Stacey Alberts, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Alexandra Pope +13

Massive galaxy clusters undergo strong evolution from z~1.6 to z~0.5, with overdense environments at high-z characterized by abundant dust-obscured star formation and stellar mass…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 4 cited

Quasars Have Fewer Close Companions than Normal Galaxies

Minghao Yue, Xiaohui Fan, Jan-Torge Schindler +2

We investigate the distribution of companion galaxies around quasars using {\em Hubble Space Telescope} ({\em HST}) Advanced Camera for Surveys Wide Field Camera (ACS/WFC) archival…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

How Do Galaxies trace a large scale structure?: A case study around a massive protocluster at

Ke Shi, Yun Huang, Kyoung-Soo Lee +7

In the hierarchical theory of galaxy formation, a galaxy overdensity is a hallmark of a massive cosmic structure. However, it is less well understood how different types of galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 29 cited

The Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey in the Pan-STARRS 1 Footprint (PS-ELQS)

Jan-Torge Schindler, Xiaohui Fan, Yun-Hsin Huang +7

We present the results of the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey in the survey of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS; PS1). This effort applies…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 42 cited

The Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint. III. The South Galactic Cap Sample and the Quasar Luminosity Function at Cosmic Noon

Jan-Torge Schindler, Xiaohui Fan, Ian D. McGreer +11

We have designed the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS) to provide a highly complete census of unobscured UV-bright quasars during the cosmic noon, . Here we report…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 130 cited

The Discovery of A Luminous Broad Absorption Line Quasar at A Redshift of 7.02

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan +18

Despite extensive efforts, only two quasars have been found at to date due to a combination of low spatial density and high contamination from more ubiquitous Galactic cool d…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 174 cited

Exploring Reionization-Era Quasars III: Discovery of 16 Quasars at with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan +22

This is the third paper in a series aims at finding reionzation-era quasars with the combination of DESI Legacy imaging Surveys (DELS) and near-infrared imaging surveys, such as th…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 166 cited

Characterizing Circumgalactic Gas around Massive Ellipticals at z~0.4 - II. Physical Properties and Elemental Abundances

Fakhri S. Zahedy, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Sean D. Johnson +5

We present a systematic investigation of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) within projected distances d<160 kpc of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The sample comprises 16 intermediate-…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 26 cited

A census of galaxy constituents in a Coma Progenitor observed at z>3

Ke Shi, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Arjun Dey +15

We present a detailed census of galaxies in and around PC217.96+32.3, a spectroscopically confirmed Coma analog at z=3.78. Diverse galaxy types identified in the field include Lya…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

The Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint. II. The North Galactic Cap Sample

Jan-Torge Schindler, Xiaohui Fan, Ian D. McGreer +10

We present the North Galactic Cap sample of the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS-N), which targets quasars with at in an area of $\sim7600\,\r…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 68 cited

Characterizing Circumgalactic Gas around Massive Ellipticals at z ~ 0.4 I. Initial Results

Hsiao-Wen Chen, Fakhri S. Zahedy, Sean D. Johnson +4

We present a new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) absorption-line survey to study halo gas around 16 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at z=0.21-0.55. The…

astro-ph.GA2015

Characterizing the Chemically-Enriched Circumgalactic Medium of ~38000 Luminous Red Galaxies in SDSS DR12

Yun-Hsin Huang, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Sean D. Johnson +1

We report a definitive detection of chemically-enriched cool gas around massive, quiescent galaxies at z~0.4-0.7. The result is based on a survey of 37621 luminous red galaxy (LRG)…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 108 cited

On Detecting Halo Assembly Bias with Galaxy Populations

Yen-Ting Lin, Rachel Mandelbaum, Yun-Hsin Huang +5

The fact that the clustering of dark matter halos depends not only on their mass, but also the formation epoch, is a prominent, albeit subtle, feature of the cold dark matter struc…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 24 cited

Probing the Earliest Stage of Protostellar Evolution -- Barnard 1-bN and Barnard 1-bS

Yun-Hsin Huang, Naomi Hirano

Two submm/mm sources in the Barnard 1b (B1-b) core, B1-bN and B1-bS, have been observed with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT). The 1.1 mm continu…