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The Halo21 Absorption Modeling Challenge: Lessons From "Observing" Synthetic Circumgalactic Absorption Spectra
Zachary Hafen, Sameer, Cameron Hummels +7
In the Halo21 absorption modeling challenge we generated synthetic absorption spectra of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), and attempted to estimate the metallicity, temperature, an…
A Complex Multiphase DLA Associated with a Compact Group at z=2.431 Traces Accretion, Outflows, and Tidal Streams
Nikole M. Nielsen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Sameer +4
As part of our program to identify host galaxies of known z=2-3 MgII absorbers with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), we discovered a compact group giving rise to a z=2.431 DLA wi…
Probing the physicochemical properties of the Leo Ring and the Leo I group
Sameer, Jane Charlton, Glenn Kacprzak +6
We present an absorption line study of the physical and chemical properties of the Leo HI Ring and the Leo I Group as traced by 11 quasar sightlines spread over a 600 kpc X 800 kpc…
Improving blazar redshift constraints with the edge of the Ly forest: 1ES 1553+113 and implications for observations of the WHIM
J. Dorigo Jones, S. D. Johnson, Sowgat Muzahid +6
Blazars are some of the brightest UV and X-ray sources in the sky and are valuable probes of the elusive warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM; K). However, man…
Using cosmological simulations and synthetic absorption spectra to assess the accuracy of observationally derived CGM metallicities
Rachel Marra, Christopher W. Churchill, Caitlin Doughty +6
We used adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of a Milky Way-type galaxy and a Dwarf galaxy and generated synthetic quasar absorption-line spec…
A partial Lyman limit system tracing intragroup gas at towards HE1003+0149
Anand Narayanan, Sameer, Sowgat Muzahid +6
We present an analysis of the galaxy environment and physical properties of a partial Lyman limit system at z = 0.83718 with HI and metal line components closely separated in redsh…
Solar-Metallicity Gas in the Extended Halo of a Galaxy at
Jayadev Pradeep, Sriram Sankar, T. M. Umasree +5
We present the detection and analysis of a weak low-ionization absorber at along the blazar sightline PG~, using spectroscopic data from both /COS and…
Broad absorption line disappearance/emergence in multiple ions in a weak emission-line quasar
Weimin Yi, M. Vivek, W. N. Brandt +9
We report the discovery of disappearance of Mg ii, Al iii, C iv, and Si iv broad absorption lines (BALs) at the same velocity, accompanied by a new Civ BAL emerging at a higher vel…
X-ray and multi-epoch optical/UV investigations of BAL to non-BAL quasar transformations
Sameer, W. N. Brandt, S. Anderson +10
We report on an X-ray and optical/UV study of eight Broad Absorption Line (BAL) to non-BAL transforming quasars at 1.7-2.2 over 0.29-4.95 rest-frame years with at lea…
Optical variability in IBL S5 0716+714 during the 2013-2015 outburst
Navpreet Kaur, Kiran S. Baliyan, S. Chandra +2
With an aim to explore optical variability at diverse timescales in BL Lac source S5 0716+714, it was observed for 46 nights during 2013 January 14 to 2015 June 01 when it underwen…
Multi-wavelength study of flaring activity in HBL 1ES 1959+650 during 2015-16
Navpreet Kaur, S. Chandra, Kiran S Baliyan +2
We present the results from a multiwavelength study of the flaring activity in HBL, 1ES 1959+650, during January 2015-June 2016. The source underwent significant flux enhancements…
Optical intra-day variability in 3C 66A: 10 years of observations
Navpreet Kaur, Sameer, Kiran S. Baliyan +1
We present results based on the observations of the blazar 3C 66A from 2005 November 06 to 2016 February 14 in the BVR and I broadbands using 1.2m telescope of the Mt. Abu InfraRed…