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most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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147 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA-JELLY II. Constraining the radial profiles of the quenching timescales in ram-pressure-stripped galaxies

Roberto P. Infurna, Matteo Fossati, Alessandro Boselli +21

We investigate the environmental quenching histories and spatial progression of ram-pressure stripping in 11 galaxies in the nearby Coma, Norma, and A1367 clusters. As part of the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

A Giant Disk Galaxy Two Billion Years After The Big Bang

Weichen Wang, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Antonio Pensabene +14

Observational studies showed that galaxy disks are already in place in the first few billion years of the universe. The early disks detected so far, with typical half-light radii o…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Metal line emission around z<1 galaxies

Rajeshwari Dutta, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati +7

We characterize, for the first time, the average extended emission in multiple lines ([OII], [OIII], and Hbeta) around a statistical sample of 560 galaxies at z~0.25-0.85. By stack…

astro-ph.GA2024

The stellar population of a Ly emitting group associated with a damped Ly absorber

Giulia Pruto, Michele Fumagalli, Marc Rafelski +4

We present near-infrared observations, acquired with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on board of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), of a Ly double-clumped emitting nebula at $z \a…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). VI. The relationship between galaxy properties and metals in the circumgalactic medium

Alexander Beckett, Marc Rafelski, Mitchell Revalski +10

We present intial results associating galaxies in the MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) with gas seen in absorption along the line-of-sight to two bright quasars in this field, to explo…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Not So Round: VLA Observations of the Starless Dark Matter Halo Candidate Cloud-9

Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Rajeshwari Dutta, Michele Fumagalli +1

Observations with FAST recently detected HI 21-cm emission near M94, revealing an intriguing object, Cloud-9, without an optical counterpart. Subsequent analysis suggests Cloud-9 i…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) -- VI. The cool and enriched gas environment of z3 Ly emitters

Marta Galbiati, Rajeshwari Dutta, Michele Fumagalli +2

We present a novel dataset that extends our view of the cosmic gas around z3-4 Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) in the Muse Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey by…

astro-ph.CO2024

High-definition imaging of a filamentary connection between a close quasar pair at z=3

Davide Tornotti, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati +16

Filaments connecting halos are a long-standing prediction of cold dark matter theories. We present a detection of the cosmic web emission connecting two quasar-host galaxies at red…

astro-ph.GA2024

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). V. Characterizing the Mass-Metallicity Relation for Low Mass Galaxies at -

Mitchell Revalski, Marc Rafelski, Alaina Henry +13

Using more than 100 galaxies in the MUSE Ultra Deep Field with spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and the Very Large Telescope's Multi Unit Spectros…

astro-ph.GA2024

Probing coherence in metal absorption towards multiple images of strong gravitationally lensed quasars

Rajeshwari Dutta, Ana Acebron, Michele Fumagalli +3

We present a tomographic analysis of metal absorption lines arising from the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies at z~0.5-2, using Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) obse…

astro-ph.GA2023

Quasar Sightline and Galaxy Evolution (QSAGE) -- III. The mass-metallicity and fundamental metallicity relation of 2.2 galaxies

H. M. O. Stephenson, J. P. Stott, F. Cullen +8

We present analysis of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) for a sample of 67 [OIII]-selected star-forming galaxies at a redshift range of ()…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Galaxy Formation and Symbiotic Evolution with the Inter-Galactic Medium in the Age of ELT-ANDES

Valentina D'Odorico, James S. Bolton, Lise Christensen +21

High-resolution absorption spectroscopy toward bright background sources has had a paramount role in understanding early galaxy formation, the evolution of the intergalactic medium…

astro-ph.GA2023

Resolving the physics of Quasar Ly Nebulae (RePhyNe): I. Constraining Quasar host halo masses through Circumgalactic Medium kinematics

Stephanie de Beer, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Andrea Travascio +8

Ly nebulae ubiquitously found around z>2 quasars can supply unique constraints on the properties of the Circumgalactic Medium, such as its density distribution, provided the qua…

astro-ph.GA2023

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). IV. A pair of X-ray weak quasars at the heart of two extended Lyα nebulae

Elisabeta Lusso, Emanuele Nardini, Michele Fumagalli +10

We present the results obtained from follow-up observations of the MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) at X-ray energies with XMM-Newton. The MUDF is centred on a unique field with two br…

astro-ph.GA2023

Universal Upper End of the Stellar Initial Mass Function in the Young and Compact LEGUS clusters

Dooseok Escher Jung, Daniela Calzetti, Matteo Messa +21

We investigate the variation in the upper end of stellar initial mass function (uIMF) in 375 young and compact star clusters in five nearby galaxies within Mpc. All the yo…

astro-ph.GA2023

Towards an automatic approach to modelling the circumgalactic medium: new tools for mock making and fitting of metal profiles in large surveys

Alessia Longobardi, Matteo Fossati, Michele Fumagalli +6

We present two new tools for studying and modelling metal absorption lines in the circumgalactic medium. The first tool, dubbed ``NMF Profile Maker'' (NMFPM), uses a non-negativ…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Towards ultra metal-poor DLAs: linking the chemistry of the most metal-poor DLA to the first stars

Louise Welsh, Ryan Cooke, Michele Fumagalli +1

We present new Keck/HIRES data of the most metal-poor damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) system currently known. By targeting the strongest accessible Fe II features, we have improved the up…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Constraining the LyC escape fraction from LEGUS star clusters with SIGNALS HII region observations: A pilot study of NGC 628

J. W. Teh, K. Grasha, M. R. Krumholz +23

The ionising radiation of young and massive stars is a crucial form of stellar feedback. Most ionising (Lyman-continuum; LyC, ) photons are absorbed close to the stars tha…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

JCMT/SCUBA-2 uncovers an excess of m counts on megaparsec scales around high-redshift quasars. Characterization of the overdensities and their alignment with the quasars' Ly nebulae

Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Aura Obreja, Chian-Chou Chen +7

We conducted a systematic survey of the environment of high-z quasars at submillimeter wavelengths to unveil and characterize the surrounding distribution of dusty submillimeter ga…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

On the Metallicities and Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Media of Damped Ly Systems at

Stephanie M. Urbano Stawinski, Kate H. R. Rubin, J. Xavier Prochaska +7

We use medium- and high-resolution spectroscopy of close pairs of quasars to analyze the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding 32 damped Ly absorption systems (DLAs). The prim…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 25 cited

Evidence of First Stars-enriched Gas in High-redshift Absorbers

A. Saccardi, S. Salvadori, V. D'Odorico +6

The first stars were born from chemically pristine gas. They were likely massive, and thus they rapidly exploded as supernovae, enriching the surrounding gas with the first heavy e…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 34 cited

Metal line emission from galaxy haloes at z~1

Rajeshwari Dutta, Matteo Fossati, Michele Fumagalli +12

We present a study of the metal-enriched halo gas, traced using MgII and [OII] emission lines, in two large, blind galaxy surveys - the MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) Ana…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). III. Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Grism Spectroscopy and Imaging

Mitchell Revalski, Marc Rafelski, Michele Fumagalli +18

We present extremely deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations of the MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). This unique region of the sky contains two quasa…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Modelling gas around galaxy pairs and groups using the Q0107 quasar triplet

Alexander Beckett, Simon L. Morris, Michele Fumagalli +3

We examine to what extent disk and outflow models can reproduce observations of H I gas within a few virial radii of galaxies in pairs and groups. Using highly-sensitive HST/COS an…