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From rings to bulges: evidence for rapid secular galaxy evolution at z~2 from integral field spectroscopy in the SINS survey
R. Genzel, A. Burkert, N. Bouche +22
We present Ha integral field spectroscopy of well resolved, UV/optically selected z~2 star-forming galaxies as part of the SINS survey with SINFONI on the ESO VLT. Our laser guide…
Towards Understanding the Mass-Metallicity relation of Quasar Absorbers: Evidence for bimodality and consequences
Nicolas Bouche
One way to characterize and understand HI-selected galaxies is to study their metallicity properties. In particular, we show that the metallicity of absorbers is a bivariate functi…
Go Long, Go Deep: Finding Optical Jet Breaks for Swift-Era GRBs with the LBT
X. Dai, P. M. Garnavich, J. L. Prieto +20
Using the 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope, we observed six GRB afterglows from 2.8 hours to 30.8 days after the burst triggers to systematically probe the late time behaviors of aft…
The SINFONI MgII Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE): Discovering starbursts near QSO sight-lines
Nicolas Bouche, Michael T. Murphy, Celine Peroux +4
Low-ionization transitions such as the MgII 2796/2803 doublet trace cold gas in the vicinity of galaxies. It is not clear whether this gas is part of the interstellar medium of lar…
The missing metals problem. III How many metals are expelled from galaxies?
Nicolas Bouche, Matthew D. Lehnert, Anthony Aguirre +2
[Abridged] We revisit the metal budget at z~2. In the first two papers of this series, we already showed that ~30% (to <60% if extrapolating the LF) of the metals are observed in a…
New perspectives on strong z=0.5 MgII absorbers: are halo-mass and equivalent width anti-correlated?
Nicolas Bouche, Michael T. Murphy, Celine Peroux +2
We measure the mean halo-mass of z=0.5 MgII absorbers using the cross-correlation (over co-moving scales 0.05-13h^{-1}Mpc) between 1806 MgII quasar absorption systems and ~250,000…
The missing metals problem: II. How many metals are in z ~ 2.2 galaxies?
N. Bouche, M. D. Lehnert, C. Peroux
In the context of the ``missing metals problem'', the contributions of the UV-selected z=2.2 ``BX'' galaxies and z=2.5 ``distant red galaxies'' (DRGs) have not been discussed previ…
The missing metals problem: I. How many metals are in submm galaxies?
N. Bouche, M. D. Lehnert, C. Peroux
We use a sample of submillimetre-selected galaxies (SMGs) with molecular gas and dynamical mass measurements from the literature to put constraints on the contribution of such gala…
Measuring the halo mass of MgII absorbers from their cross-correlation with Luminous Red Galaxies
Nicolas Bouche, M. T. Murphy, C. Peroux +1
We study the cross-correlation between 716 MgII quasar absorption systems and about 100,000 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 i…
Measuring the Halo Mass of z=3 Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers from the Absorber-Galaxy Cross-correlation
Nicolas Bouche, Jeffrey P. Gardner, David H. Weinberg +3
[Abridged] We test the reliability of a method to measure the mean halo mass of Damped Ly-alpha absorbers (DLAs). The method is based on measuring the ratio of the cross-correlatio…
The clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies around MgII absorbers
N. Bouche, M. T. Murphy, C. Peroux
We study the cross-correlation between 212 MgII quasar absorption systems and \~20,000 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1 in the…
Galaxies at z=3 around Damped Ly-alpha Clouds
Nicolas Bouche, James D. Lowenthal
We are exploring the connection between damped Ly-alpha absorbers (DLAs) and Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) using deep -- (5sigma)=26 m_{AB}-- broad band imaging (UBVI) of four wide f…
H-alpha Imaging with HST+NICMOS of An Elusive Damped Ly-alpha Cloud at z=0.6
Nicolas Bouche, James D. Lowenthal, Jane C. Charlton +3
Despite previous intensive ground-based imaging and spectroscopic campaigns and wide-band HST imaging of the z=0.927 QSO 3C336 field, the galaxy that hosts the damped Ly-alpha syst…
IR-TF Relation In The Zone Of Avoidance With 2MASS
N. Bouche, S. E. Schneider
Using the Tully-Fisher relation, one can map the peculiar velocity field and estimate the mass in regions such as the Great Attractor. 2MASS is surveying the full sky in J, H and K…