The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) IV: The Complex Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium as Revealed by Partial Lyman Limit Systems

Thomas J. Cooper, Gwen C. Rudie, Hsiao-Wen Chen +18

We present a detailed study of two partial Lyman limit systems (pLLSs) of neutral hydrogen column density $N_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{I}}\approx (1-3)\times 10^{16}{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}$ discovered at…