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most citedQuiescent galaxies 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang and their progenitors

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41 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) XIV: Background-Galaxy Absorption Reveals Kiloparsec-Scale Structure in the Cool Circumgalactic Medium

Yucheng Guo, Nicolas F. Bouché, Martin Wendt +9

The properties of the cool (~K) gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) are closely linked to the physical mechanisms that create and maintain this multiphase medium. The…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release 1: Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters

Ghassan T. E. Sarrouh, Yoshihisa Asada, Nicholas S. Martis +44

We present the first data release of the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS), a JWST Cycle 1 GTO program targeting 5 lensing clusters and flanking fields in parallel (…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) XII. Rationale and design of a MgII survey of the cool circum-galactic medium with MUSE and UVES: The MEGAFLOW Survey

N. F. Bouché, M. Wendt, J. Zabl +11

We present the design, rationale, properties and catalogs of the MusE Gas FLOw and Wind survey (MEGAFLOW), a survey of the cool gaseous halos of galaxies using low-ionizat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) XIII. Cool gas traced by MgII around isolated galaxies

Maxime Cherrey, Nicolas F. Bouché, Johannes Zabl +7

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is a key component needed to understand the physical processes governing the flows of gas around galaxies. Quantifying its evolution and its depende…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) XI. Scaling relations between outflows and host galaxy properties

Ilane Schroetter, Nicolas F. Bouché, Johannes Zabl +5

Absorption line spectroscopy using background quasars can provide strong constraints on galactic outflows. In this paper, we investigate possible scaling relations between outflow…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

The Firefly Sparkle: The Earliest Stages of the Assembly of A Milky Way-type Galaxy in a 600 Myr Old Universe

Lamiya Mowla, Kartheik Iyer, Yoshihisa Asada +19

The most distant galaxies detected by JWST are assembling in a Universe that is less than 5\% of its present age. At these times, the progenitors of galaxies like the Milky Way are…

astro-ph.GA2024

Exposing Line Emission: A First Look At The Systematic Differences of Measuring Stellar Masses With JWST NIRCam Medium Versus Wide Band Photometry

Ghassan T. Sarrouh, Adam Muzzin, Kartheik G. Iyer +13

Photometrically derived stellar masses are known to suffer from systematic uncertainties, particularly due to nebular emission contributions to the spectral energy distribution. Us…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) X. The cool gas and covering fraction of MgII in galaxy groups

Maxime Cherrey, Nicolas Bouché, Johannes Zabl +8

We present a study of the cool gas ( K) traced by MgII absorptions around groups of galaxies in the MEGAFLOW survey. Using a combination of two algorithms we blindly…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) IX. The impact of gas flows on the relations between the mass, star formation rate and metallicity of galaxies

I. Langan, J. Zabl, N. F. Bouche +13

We study the link between gas flow events and key galaxy scaling relations: the relations between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (the main sequence, MS), gas metallicit…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited

JWST catches the assembly of a ultra-low-mass galaxy

Yoshihisa Asada, Marcin Sawicki, Guillaume Desprez +14

Using CANUCS imaging we found an apparent major merger of two ultra-low-mass galaxies ( each) that are doubly imaged and magnified 12-15$\t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 82 cited

The Sparkler: Evolved High-Redshift Globular Clusters Captured by JWST

Lamiya A. Mowla, Kartheik G. Iyer, Guillaume Desprez +17

Using data from JWST, we analyze the compact sources ("sparkles") located around a remarkable galaxy (the "Sparkler") that is strongly gravitationally lensed b…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

The MUSE Extremely Deep Field: a first panoramic view of an Mg II emitting intragroup medium

Floriane Leclercq, Anne Verhamme, Benoit Epinat +21

Using the exquisite MUSE eXtremely Deep Field data, we report the discovery of an MgII emission nebula with an area above a 2 significance level of 1000 proper kpc, providin…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

REQUIEM-2D: A diversity of formation pathways in a sample of spatially-resolved massive quiescent galaxies at z~2

Mohammad Akhshik, Katherine E. Whitaker, Joel Leja +16

REQUIEM-2D (REsolving QUIEscent Magnified galaxies with 2D grism spectroscopy) is comprised of a sample of 8 massive () strongly lensed quiescent galaxies…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 106 cited

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- II. Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy

Chris J. Willott, René Doyon, Loic Albert +26

We present the wide field slitless spectroscopy mode of the NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. This mode employs two orthogonal low-resolution (resolving power $\…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

An exquisitely deep view of quenching galaxies through the gravitational lens: Stellar population, morphology, and ionized gas

Allison W. S. Man, Johannes Zabl, Gabriel B. Brammer +6

This work presents an in-depth analysis of four gravitationally lensed red galaxies at z = 1.6-3.2. The sources are magnified by factors of 2.7-30 by foreground clusters, enabling…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 69 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VIII. Discovery of a MgII emission halo probed by a quasar sightline

Johannes Zabl, Nicolas F. Bouché, Lutz Wisotzki +11

Using deep (11.2hr) VLT/MUSE data from the MEGAFLOW survey, we report the first detection of extended MgII emission from a galaxy's halo that is probed by a quasar sightline. The M…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Molecular gas in a gravitationally lensed galaxy group at

Jeff Shen, Allison W. S. Man, Johannes Zabl +5

Most molecular gas studies of galaxies are of intrinsically bright objects, despite the galaxy population being primarily "normal" galaxies with less extreme star formati…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 39 cited

MUSEQuBES: Characterizing the circumgalactic medium of redshift Ly emitters

Sowgat Muzahid, Joop Schaye, Sebastiano Cantalupo +7

We present the first characterization of the circumgalactic medium of Ly emitters (LAEs), using a sample of 96 LAEs detected with the VLT/MUSE in fields centered o…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 77 cited

The MUSE Extremely Deep Field: the Cosmic Web in Emission at High Redshift

Roland Bacon, David Mary, Thibault Garel +29

We report the discovery of diffuse extended Ly-alpha emission from redshift 3.1 to 4.5, tracing cosmic web filaments on scales of 2.5-4 comoving Mpc. These structures have been obs…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VII. A NOEMA pilot program to probe molecular gas in galaxies with measured circumgalactic gas flows

Jonathan Freundlich, Nicolas F. Bouché, Thierry Contini +5

We present a pilot program using IRAM's NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) to probe the molecular gas reservoirs of six star-forming galaxies whose circumgalact…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

The Fundamental Plane of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z~2

Mikkel Stockmann, Inger Jørgensen, Sune Toft +11

We examine the Fundamental Plane (FP) and mass-to-light ratio () scaling relations using the largest sample of massive quiescent galaxies at to date. The FP ($r_{e…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

MusE GAs Flow and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VI. A study of CIV and MgII absorbing gas surrounding [OII] emitting galaxies

Ilane Schroetter, Nicolas F. Bouché, Johannes Zabl +7

Using the MEGAFLOW survey, which consists of a combination of MUSE and UVES observations of 22 quasar fields selected to contain strong MgII absorbers, we measure covering fraction…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) V. The dust/metallicity-anisotropy of the Circum-Galactic Medium

Martin Wendt, Nicolas F. Bouché, Johannes Zabl +2

We investigate whether the dust content of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) depends on the location of the quasar sightline with respect to the galaxy major-axis using 13 galaxy-Mg…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

A hyper luminous starburst at z=4.72 magnified by a lensing galaxy pair at z=1.48

L. Ciesla, M. Béthermin, E. Daddi +23

[Abridged] We discovered in the Herschel Reference Survey an extremely bright IR source with ~120mJy (Red Virgo 4 - RV4). Based on IRAM/EMIR and IRAM/NOEMA detections of t…