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20142026
most citedThe MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-Selected Galaxies at 1.37 < z < 3.8

442 citations · 4.9k across the 98 of their papers we have counts for

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99 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Chemical Evolution (ACE) survey: an overview -- extending dust and gas inference to low metallicities at cosmic noon

Irene Shivaei, Gergő Popping, Leindert A. Boogaard +13

The baryon cycle governs the exchange of gas, metals, and dust between galaxies and their environments, but simultaneous constraints on these constituents remain scarce beyond z~1.…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Chemical Evolution (ACE) Survey: Molecular gas properties of low-mass, low-metallicity galaxies at cosmic noon

Gergő Popping, Ivanna Langan, Nikki N. Geesink +13

Molecular gas plays a central role in regulating star formation and galaxy evolution, yet observational constraints at cosmic noon remain biased toward massive, metal-rich systems.…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Chemical Evolution (ACE) survey: the dust content of subsolar metallicity galaxies at cosmic noon

M. Solimano, I. Shivaei, G. Popping +11

Dust plays a key role in galaxy evolution by influencing star formation and shaping the observed spectrum of galaxies. However, at z~2 (cosmic noon) our knowledge of the dust mass…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Chemical Evolution (ACE) survey: dust-to-gas ratios in sub-solar metallicity galaxies at cosmic noon

N. N. Geesink, G. Popping, L. A. Boogaard +11

Dust is a fundamental component of the interstellar medium and provides a key tracer of the baryon cycle that regulates galaxy evolution. The dust-to-gas ratio links metals in the…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Chemical Evolution (ACE) survey: The gas fundamental metallicity relation at cosmic noon

I. Langan, I. Shivaei, G. Popping +11

Chemical enrichment shapes how galaxies form and evolve. The gas-phase metallicity is directly linked to the stellar mass, star formation rate, and cold gas of the interstellar med…

astro-ph.GA2026

The JWST EXCELS survey: Outflows in 1.5 < z < 5 quiescent and recently quenched galaxies are likely relics from episodic AGN activity

Elizabeth Taylor, Adam C. Carnall, David Maltby +24

We investigate the presence and origin of neutral gas outflows and inflows in 13 post-starburst (PSB) and quiescent galaxies at redshifts 1.8 z 4.6, using JWST NIRSpe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

PRIMER & JADES reveal an abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 2 < z < 5

Struan D. Stevenson, Adam C. Carnall, Ho-Hin Leung +22

We select a mass-complete sample of 225 quiescent galaxies at with from PRIMER and JADES photometry spanning a total area of sq.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The AURORA Survey: High-Redshift Empirical Metallicity Calibrations from Electron Temperature Measurements at z=2-10

Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping +29

We present detections of auroral emission lines of [OIII], [OII], [SIII], and [SII] in deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy for 41 star-forming galaxies at from the AURORA su…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The AURORA Survey: Robust Helium Abundances at High Redshift Reveal A Subpopulation of Helium-Enhanced Galaxies in the Early Universe

Danielle A. Berg, Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley +16

We present the first robust helium (He) abundance measurements in star-forming galaxies at redshifts using deep, moderate-resolution JWST/NIRSpec spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025

MOSDEF-3D: Keck/OSIRIS Maps of the Ionized ISM in Galaxies

Natalie Lam, Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders +8

We present spatially-resolved rest-frame optical emission line maps of four galaxies at observed with Keck/OSIRIS to study the physical conditions of the ISM at Cosmic N…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The JWST/AURORA Survey: Multiple Balmer and Paschen Emission Lines for Individual Star-forming Galaxies at z=1.5-4.4. I. A Diversity of Nebular Attenuation Curves and Evidence for Non-Unity Dust Covering Fractions

Naveen A. Reddy, Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders +14

We present the nebular attenuation curves and dust covering fractions for 24 redshift z=1.5-4.4 star-forming galaxies using multiple Balmer and Paschen lines from the JWST/AURORA s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The AURORA Survey: Tracing Galactic Outflows at with JWST/NIRSpec NUV Absorption Lines

Emily Kehoe, Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders +13

We probe galactic-scale outflows in star-forming galaxies at drawn from the \textit{JWST}/NIRSpec AURORA program. For the first time, we directly compare outflow prop…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation (First Data Release): 488k Redshifts Encompassing Two Decades of Spectroscopy

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Mara Salvato +54

We present the COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation encompassing ~ 20 years of spectroscopic redshifts within a 10 deg area centered on the 2 deg COSMOS legacy field.…

astro-ph.GA2024

Stacking and Analyzing MOSDEF Galaxies by Spectral Types: Implications for Dust Geometry and Galaxy Evolution

Brian Lorenz, Mariska Kriek, Alice E. Shapley +12

We examine star-formation and dust properties for a sample of 660 galaxies at in the MOSDEF survey by dividing them into groups with similarly-shaped spectral…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

MSA-3D: dissecting galaxies at z~1 with high spatial and spectral resolution

Ivana Barišić, Tucker Jones, Kris Mortensen +18

Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) is a powerful tool for understanding the formation of galaxies across cosmic history. We present the observing strategy and first results of MSA-3…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

The AURORA Survey: The Nebular Attenuation Curve of a Galaxy at z=4.41 from Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared Wavelengths

Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping +28

We use JWST/NIRSpec observations from the Assembly of Ultradeep Rest-optical Observations Revealing Astrophysics (AURORA) survey to constrain the shape of the nebular attenuation c…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The AURORA Survey: A New Era of Emission-line Diagrams with JWST/NIRSpec

Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders, Michael W. Topping +28

We present results on the emission-line properties of z=1.4-7.5 star-forming galaxies in the Assembly of Ultradeep Rest-optical Observations Revealing Astrophysics (AURORA) Cycle 1…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

The Star-Forming Main Sequence in JADES and CEERS at : Investigating the Burstiness of Star Formation

Leonardo Clarke, Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders +5

We have used public JWST/NIRSpec and JWST/NIRCam observations from the CEERS and JADES surveys in order to analyze the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) over the redshift range $1.…

astro-ph.GA2024

The NIRVANDELS Survey: the stellar and gas-phase mass-metallicity relations of star-forming galaxies at z = 3.5

T. M. Stanton, F. Cullen, R. J. McLure +18

We present determinations of the gas-phase and stellar metallicities of a sample of 65 star-forming galaxies at using rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy f…

astro-ph.GA2023

Theoretical strong line metallicity diagnostics for the JWST era

Prerak Garg, Desika Narayanan, Ryan L. Sanders +5

The ratios of strong rest-frame optical emission lines are the dominant indicator of metallicities in high-redshift galaxies. Since typical strong-line based metallicity indicators…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Gauging the mass of metals in the gas phase of galaxies from the Local Universe to the Epoch of Reionization

K. E. Heintz, A. E. Shapley, R. L. Sanders +10

The chemical enrichment of dust and metals are vital processes in constraining the star formation history of the universe. Previously, the dust masses of high-redshift star-forming…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

Unravelling the Dust Attenuation Scaling Relations and their Evolution

Gabriel Maheson, Roberto Maiolino, Mirko Curti +3

We explore the dependence of dust attenuation, as traced by the Balmer decrement, on galactic properties by using a large sample of SDSS spectra. We use both Part…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

The MOSDEF-LRIS Survey: Detection of Inflowing Gas Towards Three Star-forming Galaxies at z ~ 2

Andrew Weldon, Naveen A. Reddy, Michael W. Topping +9

We report on the discovery of cool gas inflows towards three star-forming galaxies at 2.30. Analysis of Keck Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer spectroscopy r…

astro-ph.GA2023

Ultra-deep Keck/MOSFIRE spectroscopic observations of galaxies: direct oxygen abundances and nebular excitation properties

Leonardo Clarke, Alice Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders +6

Using deep near-infrared Keck/MOSFIRE observations, we analyze the rest-optical spectra of eight star-forming galaxies in the COSMOS and GOODS-N fields. We reach integration times…