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20192026
most citedSlicing the cool circumgalactic medium along the major-axis of a star-forming galaxy at

55 citations · 140 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Tracing Warm Gas through C IV Radiative Transfer

Jin Lim, Seok-Jun Chang, Max Gronke +3

The C IV resonance doublet is a key tracer of warm gas () within and around galaxies. Recent observations have detected this line in both ab…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Impact of Circumgalactic Rotation on Ly Radiative Transfer

Hee-Gyeong Kym, Seok-Jun Chang, Max Gronke +1

Hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Ly) is a prominent emission line from the circumgalactic medium (CGM). Due to its resonant nature, Ly carries imprints of the physical properties and ki…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Cosmic Archipelago of lensed metal-poor galaxies at

A. Bolamperti, M. Messa, A. Zanella +21

The Cosmic Archipelago is an ensemble of galaxies, strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0416, showing extreme physical properties at . We combine JWST/NIRCam with deep VL…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

SPURS: Evidence for Clumpy Neutral Envelopes and Ionized IGM Surrounding Little Red Dots in Abell 2744 from Ultra-Deep Rest-UV Spectroscopy

Mengtao Tang, Daniel P. Stark, Charlotte A. Mason +14

Rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectra of Little Red Dots (LRDs) often show Ly emission. Along with broad Balmer emission, LRDs are expected to produce broad Ly emission. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) VIII. The cool gas distribution surrounding galaxies at redshifts z ~ 0.5-2

Edoardo Santo, Michele Fumagalli, Seok-Jun Chang +5

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 analys…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The Engine and its Flows: Little Red Dot spectra are shaped by the column densities of their gas envelopes

Jorryt Matthee, Alberto Torralba, Gabriele Pezzulli +23

JWST data have enabled the abundant identification of compact broad Balmer line sources nicknamed the Little Red Dots. While they share broad lines with active galactic nuclei, the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

The warm outer layer of a Little Red Dot as the source of [Fe II] and collisional Balmer lines with scattering wings

Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Gabriele Pezzulli +22

The population of the Little Red Dots (LRDs) may represent a key phase of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. A cocoon of dense excited gas is emerging as key component to expla…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Lyman- Escape through Anisotropic Media

Silvia Almada Monter, Max Gronke, Seok-Jun Chang

The escape of Lyman- (Ly) radiation encodes valuable information on the neutral interstellar medium and is often used as a proxy for the escape of ionizing photons. Yet, the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

Impact of Resonance, Raman, and Thomson Scattering on Hydrogen Line Formation in Little Red Dots

Seok-Jun Chang, Max Gronke, Jorryt Matthee +1

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact sources at discovered through JWST spectroscopy. Their spectra exhibit broad Balmer emission lines (), alongside…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Simulating realistic Lyman- emitting galaxies including the effect of radiative transfer

Hasti Khoraminezhad, Shun Saito, Max Gronke +1

We present an empirical yet physically motivated simulation of realistic Lyman- emitters (LAEs) at , crucial for ongoing and forthcoming cosmological LAE surveys. We c…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

A weak Ly halo for an extremely bright Little Red Dot: Indications of enshrouded SMBH growth

Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Gabriele Pezzulli +13

The abundant population of "Little Red Dots" (LRDs)-compact objects with red UV to optical colors and broad Balmer lines at high redshift-is unveiling new insights into the propert…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots

Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Harley Katz +48

The physical processes that led to the formation of billion solar mass black holes within the first 700 million years of cosmic time remain a puzzle. Several theoretical scenarios…

astro-ph.GA2025

Disentangling the galactic and intergalactic components in 313 observed Lyman-alpha line profiles between redshift 0 and 5

Siddhartha Gurung-López, Chris Byrohl, Max Gronke +5

Lyman-Alpha (Lya) photons emitted in star-forming galaxies undergo complex radiative transfer through the interstellar (ISM), circumgalactic (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM),…

astro-ph.GA2025

Constraining the geometry of the gas surrounding a typical galaxy at with Ly polarization

A. Bolamperti, S. -J. Chang, J. Vernet +6

Ly emission is the strongest tracer of recombining ionized hydrogen in young, star-forming galaxies, but its origin is still debated. Ly arises when emitted photons scatter i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

zELDA II: reconstruction of galactic Lyman-alpha spectra attenuated by the intergalactic medium using neural networks

Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez, Chris Byrohl, Max Gronke +5

The observed Lyman-Alpha (Lya) line profile is a convolution of the complex Lya radiative transfer taking place in the interstellar, circumgalactic and intergalactic medium (ISM, C…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Modeling Mg II resonance doublet spectra from galaxy haloes at z 1

Seok-Jun Chang, Rajeshwari Dutta, Max Gronke +3

We investigate the properties of cold gas at around star-forming galaxies at using Mg II spectra through radiative transfer modeling. We utilize a comprehen…

astro-ph.GA2024

Synergistic Radiative Transfer Modeling of MgII and Lyα Emission in Multiphase, Clumpy Galactic Environments: Application to Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Leakers

Zhihui Li, Max Gronke, Timothy Heckman +9

We conducted systematic radiative transfer (RT) modeling of the Mg II doublet line profiles for 33 low-redshift Lyman continuum (LyC) leakers, and Ly modeling for a subset of si…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Deciphering spatially resolved Lyman-alpha profiles in reionization analogs: the Sunburst Arc at cosmic noon

Erik Solhaug, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Mandy C. Chen +7

The hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Lya) emission line, the brightest spectral feature of a photoionized gas, is considered an indirect tracer of the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Crossing walls and windows: the curious escape of Lyman- photons through ionised channels

Silvia Almada Monter, Max Gronke

The diverse Lyman-alpha (Ly) line profiles are essential probes of gas in and around galaxies. While isotropic models can successfully reproduce a range of Ly observables, th…

astro-ph.GA2024

Probing cold gas with Mg II and Ly radiative transfer

Seok-Jun Chang, Max Gronke

The Mg II resonance doublet at 2796 Å and 2803 Å is an increasingly important tool to study cold, K, gas -- an observational driven development requiring theoretic…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Directly constraining the spatial coherence of the circumgalactic medium

A. Afruni, S. Lopez, P. Anshul +9

One of the biggest puzzles regarding the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the structure of its cool ( K) gas phase. While the kinematics of quasar absorption systems sugge…

astro-ph.SR2023

First Detection and Modeling of Spatially Resolved Ly in TW Hya

Seok-Jun Chang, Nicole Arulanantham, Max Gronke +2

Lyman- (Ly) is the strongest emission line in the accretion-generated UV spectra from T-Tauri stars and, as such, plays a critical role in regulating chemistry within the sur…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 55 cited

Slicing the cool circumgalactic medium along the major-axis of a star-forming galaxy at

S. Lopez, N. Tejos, L. F. Barrientos +13

We present spatially-resolved echelle spectroscopy of an intervening MgII-FeII-MgI absorption-line system detected at toward the giant gravitational arc PSZ1…