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most citedThe Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey I: New, Diverse Local Lyman-Continuum Emitters

180 citations · 554 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Testing SALT Approximations with Numerical Radiative Transfer Code. II. Thermal and Microturbulent Line Broadening

Cody Carr, Renyue Cen, Leo Michel-Dansac +2

Forward models that connect galactic winds to their predicted spectral-line profiles have proved effective for inferring wind properties in controlled settings, but important limit…

astro-ph.GA2026

CLASSY. XV. Kinematics and Spatial Distributions of Outflows in Local Highly Star-Forming Galaxies

Mason S. Huberty, Cody A. Carr, Claudia Scarlata +17

Star-forming galaxies drive massive outflows that play an important role in galaxy evolution by regulating feedback and influencing the dynamics of surrounding media. Measuring gal…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.IM2026

The short and long of iPhoton science for a boosted Hubble

Stephan R. McCandliss, Jack Ford, Anne E. Jaskot +7

Boosting the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will provide unique opportunities to carry out precursor science for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Chief among them are science…

astro-ph.IM2026

Astronomical Advantages of a Boost Mission to Facilitate HST Science into the 2030s: Imaging the Circumgalactic Medium of Galaxies

Matthew J. Hayes, Kate H. R. Rubin, Michelle A. Berg +20

We present the case for imaging ultraviolet line emission from highly ionized metals and HI Lya in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies, should the Hubble Space Telescope receive…

astro-ph.IM2026

Extending Hubble into the 2030s to Resolve the Physics of LyC Escape

Cody Carr, Stephan McCandliss, Michelle Berg +6

Current observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that star-forming galaxies produce enough ionizing (LyC; nm) photons to drive cosmic reionization,…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Resolving the Unresolved Galactic Winds in Multi-phase Models. I. Methodology and Application

Xinfeng Xu, Drummond Fielding, Timothy Heckman +12

Galactic winds shape galaxy evolution; however, the outflowing gas is complex: it consists of multiple ionization phases, and its properties vary spatially. Therefore, methods that…

astro-ph.IM2025

Resolving the Origins and Pathways of Ionizing Radiation Escape with UV Integral Field Spectroscopy

Cody Carr, Renyue Cen, Brian Fleming +4

The Epoch of Reionization marks the last major phase transition in the early Universe, during which the majority of neutral hydrogen once filling the intergalactic medium was ioniz…

astro-ph.GA2025

CLASSY XIII. Cutting through the Clouds - Comparing Indirect Tracers of Ionizing Photon Escape

Kaelee S. Parker, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm +25

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) provides critical insights into the role of early galaxies in shaping the ionization state of the universe. However, because of the opacity of the i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Supernovae Driven Winds Impede Lyman Continuum Escape from Dwarf Galaxies in First 10 Myr

Cody Carr, Renyue Cen, Stephan McCandliss +25

Observations suggest that UV-bright, compact star-forming galaxies produce enough ionizing (Lyman continuum; LyC) photons to reionize the Universe. Yet, the efficiency of LyC escap…

astro-ph.GA2025

Emission line tracers of galactic outflows driven by stellar feedback in simulations of isolated disk galaxies

Elliot L. Howatson, Alexander J. Richings, Elke Roediger +7

Hydrodynamic simulations can connect outflow observables to the physical conditions of outflowing gas. Here, we use simulations of isolated disk galaxies ranging from dwarf mass ($…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The Ly and Continuum Origins Survey. III. Investigating the Link between Galaxy Morphology, Merger Properties and LyC Escape

Alexandra Le Reste, Anne E. Jaskot, Jordanne Brazie +20

Characterizing the mechanisms and galaxy properties conducive to the emission and escape of ionizing (LyC) emission is necessary to accurately model the Epoch of Reionization, and…

astro-ph.GA2025

Identifying the contributors to cosmic reionization with the Habitable World Observatory: LyC escape calibration in faint galaxies

Annalisa Citro, Cody. A. Carr, Yumi Choi +9

Investigating how small-scale physical processes shape large-scale astrophysical phenomena is one of the key science themes of the Astro2020 decadal Survey. An example of this inte…

astro-ph.GA2025

How Do Ionizing Photons Escape from Star-Forming Galaxies?

Cody Carr, Renyue Cen, Sophia Flury +3

The Epoch of Reionization marks the last major phase transition in the early Universe, during which the majority of neutral hydrogen once filling the intergalactic medium was ioniz…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Power-law Emission-line Wings and Radiation-Driven Superwinds in Local Lyman Continuum Emitters

Lena Komarova, Sally Oey, Rui Marques-Chaves +27

We investigate broad emission-line wings, reaching , observed in 26 galaxies with Lyman continuum (LyC) observations, primarily from the Low-redshift Lyman C…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey II: the connection between the escape of ionizing radiation and Lyman-alpha halos in star-forming galaxies

A. Saldana-Lopez, M. J. Hayes, A. Le Reste +24

One of the current challenges in galaxy evolution studies is to establish the mechanisms that govern the escape of ionizing radiation from galaxies. Here, we investigate the connec…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey. I. Survey description and Ly imaging

Alexandra Le Reste, Claudia Scarlata, Matthew Hayes +25

Understanding the mechanisms driving the escape of ionizing or Lyman continuum (LyC) emission from the interstellar medium of galaxies is necessary to constrain the evolution of re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evaluating Mass Outflow Rate Estimators in FIRE-2 Simulations: Towards a Self-Consistent Framework for Spectral Line Based Predictions

Cody A Carr, Aaron Smith, Viraj Pandya +4

$\require{mediawiki-texvc}$Galactic outflows shape galaxy evolution, but their mass, energy, and momentum transfer remain uncertain. High-resolution spectroscopy can help, but syst…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Physical Origins of Outflowing Cold Clouds in Local Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies

Zixuan Peng, Crystal L. Martin, Zirui Chen +10

We study the physical origins of outflowing cold clouds in a sample of 14 low-redshift dwarf ( ) galaxies from the COS Legacy Archive Spectros…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

A Simulated Galaxy Laboratory: Exploring the Observational Effects on UV Spectral Absorption Line Measurements

R. Michael Jennings, Alaina Henry, Valentin Mauerhofer +13

Ultraviolet absorption line spectroscopy is a sensitive diagnostic for the properties of interstellar and circumgalactic gas. Down-the-barrel observations, where the absorption is…

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★ 1 cited

The Low-Redshift Lyman Continuum Survey: The Roles of Stellar Feedback and ISM Geometry in LyC Escape

Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Alberto Saldana-Lopez +30

One of the fundamental questions of cosmology is the origin and mechanism(s) responsible for the reionization of the Universe beyond . To address this question, many studie…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Effect of Radiation and Supernovae Feedback on LyC Escape in Local Star-forming Galaxies

Cody A. Carr, Renyue Cen, Claudia Scarlata +25

Feedback is widely recognized as an essential condition for Lyman continuum (LyC) escape in star-forming galaxies. However, the mechanisms by which galactic outflows clear neutral…

astro-ph.GA2024

Shining a Light on the Connections between Galactic Outflows Seen in Absorption and Emission Lines

Xinfeng Xu, Alaina Henry, Timothy Heckman +14

Galactic outflows provide important feedback effects to regulate the evolution of host galaxies. Two primary diagnostics of outflows are broad and/or blueshifted emission and absor…