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most citedA SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z=6.61 Quasar

91 citations · 393 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

MAMMOTH-LyC: Investigating the Role of Galaxy Mergers in a Strong Lyman Continuum Leaker at

Shengzhe Wang, Xin Wang, Matthew A. Malkan +16

The MAMMOTH-LyC survey is a cycle 30 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) medium program obtaining 18-orbit-deep WFC3/UVIS F225W imaging in two massive galaxy protocluster fields at $z\sim…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MAMMOTH-Grism: Revisiting the Mass-Metallicity Relation in Protocluster Environments at Cosmic Noon

Yiming Yang, Xin Wang, Xianlong He +12

We present one of the first measurements of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) in multiple massive protoclusters at cosmic noon, using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) G141 slitless s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 23 cited

What boost galaxy mergers in two massive galaxy protoclusters at z = 2.24

Shuang Liu, Xianzhong Zheng, Dongdong Shi +10

Characterizing the structural properties of galaxies in high-redshift protoclusters is key to our understanding of the environmental effects on galaxy evolution in the early stages…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 36 cited

Inspiraling streams of enriched gas observed around a massive galaxy 11 billion years ago

Shiwu Zhang, Zheng Cai, Dandan Xu +19

Stars form in galaxies, from gas that has been accreted from the intergalactic medium. Simulations have shown that recycling of gas-the reaccretion of gas that was previously eject…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

The Merian Survey: Design, Construction, and Characterization of a Filter Set Optimized to Find Dwarf Galaxies and Measure their Dark Matter Halo Properties with Weak Lensing

Yifei Luo, Alexie Leauthaud, Jenny Greene +28

The Merian survey is mapping 850 degrees of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP) wide layer with two medium-band filters on the 4-meter Victor M. Bla…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 91 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z=6.61 Quasar

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi +56

We present the first results from the JWST ASPIRE program (A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era). This program represents an imaging and spectroscopic sur…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 77 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): A First Look at the Rest-frame Optical Spectra of Quasars Using JWST

Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +53

Studies of rest-frame optical emission in quasars at have historically been limited by the wavelengths accessible by ground-based telescopes. The James Webb Space Telescope (…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

The SUPERCOLD-CGM survey: \\ I. Probing the extended CO(4-3) Emission of the Circumglactic medium in a sample of 10 Enormous Ly Nebulae at

Jianrui Li, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Zheng Cai +10

To understand how massive galaxies at high- co-evolve with enormous reservoirs of halo gas, it is essential to study the coldest phase of the circum-galactic medium (CGM), which…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The Emergence of Brightest Cluster Galaxy in a Protocluster Core at

Dongdong Shi, Xin Wang, XianZhong Zheng +4

We report the detection of a pair of massive quiescent galaxies likely in the process of merging at the center of the spectroscopically confirmed, extremely massive protocluster BO…

astro-ph.GA2023

MAMMOTH-Subaru V. Effects of Cosmic Variance on Ly Luminosity Functions at

Ke Ma, Haibin Zhang, Zheng Cai +8

Cosmic variance introduces significant uncertainties into galaxy number density properties when surveying the high-z Universe with a small volume, such uncertainties produce the fi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

MAMMOTH-Subaru III. Ly Halo Extended to kpc Identified by Stacking Ly Emitters at

Haibin Zhang, Zheng Cai, Yongming Liang +8

In this paper, we present a Ly halo extended to kpc identified by stacking Ly emitters at . We carry out imaging observations and data reduct…

astro-ph.GA2023

MAMMOTH-Subaru IV. Large Scale Structure and Clustering Analysis of Ly Emitters and Ly Blobs at

Haibin Zhang, Zheng Cai, Mingyu Li +10

We report the large scale structure and clustering analysis of Ly emitters (LAEs) and Ly blobs (LABs) at . Using 3,341 LAEs, 117 LABs, and 58 bright (Ly luminos…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.CO2022

A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5

David J. Schlegel, Simone Ferraro, Greg Aldering +62

In this white paper, we present an experimental road map for spectroscopic experiments beyond DESI. DESI will be a transformative cosmological survey in the 2020s, mapping 40 milli…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 45 cited

The Identification of a Dusty Multiarm Spiral Galaxy at with JWST and ALMA

Yunjing Wu, Zheng Cai, Fengwu Sun +13

Spiral arms serve crucial purposes in star formation and galaxy evolution. In this paper, we report the identification of A2744-DSG-, a dusty, multiarm spiral galaxy at $z=3.05…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

First Census of Gas-phase Metallicity Gradients of Star-forming Galaxies in Overdense Environments at Cosmic Noon

Zihao Li, Xin Wang, Zheng Cai +8

We report the first spatially resolved measurements of gas-phase metallicity radial gradients in star-forming galaxies in overdense environments at . The spectroscopic d…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Submillimetre galaxies in two massive protoclusters at z = 2.24: witnessing the enrichment of extreme starbursts in the outskirts of HAE density peaks

Yuheng Zhang, Xian Zhong Zheng, Dong Dong Shi +18

Submillimetre galaxies represent a rapid growth phase of both star formation and massive galaxies. Mapping SMGs in galaxy protoclusters provides key insights into where and how the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

The mass-metallicity relation at cosmic noon in overdense environments: first results from the MAMMOTH-Grism HST slitless spectroscopic survey

Xin Wang, Zihao Li, Zheng Cai +9

The MAMMOTH-Grism slitless spectroscopic survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) cycle-28 medium program, which is obtaining 45 orbits of WFC3/IR grism spectroscopy in the density…