5 papers
The future of high-resolution UV spectroscopy: Science with a UV Échelle spectrograph on the Habitable Worlds Observatory, or a dedicated mission
Annalisa De Cia, David Cont, Kevin Heng +39
High-resolution UV spectroscopy serves a diversity of science cases, from small bodies to planets, stars, and galaxies, but is currently limited to the Hubble Space Telescope and b…
High-S/N Quasar Observations with HST/COS: Deep Fields for Spectroscopy
Andrew J. Fox, Jerry Kriss, Philipp Richter +49
Hubble is still in prime observing condition for making transformative discoveries in UV astronomy. In this white paper we describe the science case for a deep (S/N>30) UV spectros…
Low Metallicity Gas on the Outskirts of the Local Group: the Circumgalactic Medium of Sextans B
Andrew J. Fox, Sapna Mishra, Frances H. Cashman +6
We present a UV absorption-line analysis of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Sextans B, a dwarf irregular galaxy at 1.3 Mpc distance on the outer frontier of the Local Group. Usi…
The Synthetic Absorption Line Spectral Almanac (SALSA)
Dylan Nelson, Celine Peroux, Philipp Richter +10
We create the first large-scale mock spectroscopic survey of gas absorption sightlines traversing the interstellar medium (ISM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and intergalactic medi…
An SDSS-V 3D Tomographic Na I Map of the ISM: An Initial Study Towards the Smith Cloud
Timothy McQuaid, Joseph N. Burchett, Kate H. R. Rubin +7
High velocity clouds supply the Milky Way with gas that sustains star formation over cosmic timescales. Precise distance measurements are therefore essential to quantify their mass…