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most citedCharacterizing Circumgalactic Gas around Massive Ellipticals at z~0.4 - II. Physical Properties and Elemental Abundances

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astro-ph.HE2026★ 3 cited

Periodic Radio and X-ray Emission from an Accreting White Dwarf Binary

Kovi Rose, Joshua Pritchard, Tara Murphy +26

Long period radio transients (LPTs) are coherent bursts of polarised radio emission that repeat periodically on timescales of minutes to hours. Little is known about the physical o…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Comprehensive Study of Morphology and Kinematics in Extended Nebulae Around UV Luminous Quasars at

Zhuoqi Liu, Sean D. Johnson, Eric F. Bell +20

Gas flows between galaxies and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) play a central role in galaxy evolution and can become observable as giant nebulae when illuminated by the quasars. W…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

H I Properties of Field Galaxies at -0.6: Insights into Declining Cosmic Star Formation

David DePalma, Neeraj Gupta, Hsiao-Wen Chen +18

We report statistically significant detection of H I 21-cm emission from intermediate-redshift (-0.6) galaxies. By leveraging multi-sightline galaxy survey data from t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MUSEQuBES: Physical conditions, origins, and multi-element abundances of the circumgalactic medium of an isolated, star-forming dwarf galaxy at z=0.57

Sean D. Johnson, Nishant Mishra, Sowgat Muzahid +13

In dwarf galaxy models, outflows expel metal-enriched interstellar medium (ISM) into the circumgalactic medium (CGM) to reproduce their observed low metallicities, but measurements…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Morphology and Kinematics of a Giant, Symmetric Nebula Around a Radio-Loud Quasar 3C57: Extended Rotating Gas or Biconical Outflows?

Zhuoqi, Liu, Sean D. Johnson +12

Gas flows between galaxies and the CGM play a crucial role in galaxy evolution. When ionized by a quasar, these gas flows can be directly traced as giant nebulae. We present a stud…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The Circumgalactic Medium

Hsiao-Wen Chen, Fakhri S. Zahedy

Galaxies are part of a vast cosmic ecosystem, embedded in an extensive gaseous reservoir that regulates their growth by providing the necessary fuel for star formation while preser…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Deciphering spatially resolved Lyman-alpha profiles in reionization analogs: the Sunburst Arc at cosmic noon

Erik Solhaug, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Mandy C. Chen +7

The hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Lya) emission line, the brightest spectral feature of a photoionized gas, is considered an indirect tracer of the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

On the Nature of the C IV-bearing Circumgalactic Medium at z~1

Suyash Kumar, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Zhijie Qu +5

This paper presents a detailed study of the physical properties of seven C IV absorbers identified at z_abs = 0.68-1.28 along the line of sight toward QSO PG 1522+101 (z_QSO = 1.33…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) IX: The enriched circumgalactic and intergalactic medium around star-forming field dwarf galaxies traced by O VI absorption

Nishant Mishra, Sean D. Johnson, Gwen C. Rudie +13

The shallow potential wells of star-forming dwarf galaxies make their surrounding circumgalactic and intergalactic medium (CGM/IGM) sensitive laboratories for studying the inflows…

astro-ph.GA2024

Discovery of optically emitting circumgalactic nebulae around the majority of UV-luminous quasars at intermediate redshift

Sean D. Johnson, Zhuoqi Will Liu, Jennifer I. Li +15

We report the discovery of large ionized, [O II] emitting circumgalactic nebulae around the majority of thirty UV luminous quasars at observed with deep, wide-field int…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) VIII: Group Environment of the Most Luminous Quasars at

Jennifer I. Li, Sean D. Johnson, Erin Boettcher +12

We investigate the group-scale environment of 15 luminous quasars (luminosity erg s) from the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) at redshift $z\a…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) VII: on the warm-hot circumgalactic medium probed by O VI and Ne VIII at 0.4 z 0.7

Zhijie Qu, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Sean D. Johnson +12

This paper presents a newly established sample of 103 unique galaxies or galaxy groups at from the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) for studying…

astro-ph.GA2023

MALS discovery of a rare HI 21-cm absorber at : origin of the absorbing gas in powerful AGN

P. P. Deka, N. Gupta, H. W. Chen +14

We report a new, rare detection of HI 21-cm absorption associated with a quasar (only six known at ) here towards J2339-5523 at = 1.3531, discovered through the Mee…

astro-ph.GA2023

An ensemble study of turbulence in extended QSO nebulae at --1

Mandy C. Chen, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Michael Rauch +10

Turbulent motions in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) play a critical role in regulating the evolution of galaxies, yet their detailed characterization remains elusive. Using two-di…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey: Empirical Characterization of Turbulence in the Cool Circumgalactic Medium

Hsiao-Wen Chen, Zhijie Qu, Michael Rauch +11

This paper reports the first measurement of the relationship between turbulent velocity and cloud size in the diffuse circumgalactic medium (CGM) in typical galaxy halos at redshif…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) VI: Connecting Physical Properties of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium to Galaxies at

Zhijie Qu, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Gwen C. Rudie +12

This paper presents a new sample of 19 unique galaxies and galaxy groups at from the CUBS program, which is designated as the CUBSz1 sample. In this CUBSz1 sample, nine…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

EMPRESS. XI. SDSS and JWST Search for Local and z~4-5 Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies (EMPGs): Clustering and Chemical Properties of Local EMPGs

Moka Nishigaki, Masami Ouchi, Kimihiko Nakajima +16

We search for local extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs), selecting photometric candidates by broadband color excess and machine-learning techniques with the SDSS photometric data…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 38 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) V: On the Thermodynamic Properties of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium at

Zhijie Qu, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Gwen C. Rudie +11

This paper presents a systematic study of the photoionization and thermodynamic properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) as traced by rest-frame ultraviolet absorption li…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

Empirical constraints on the turbulence in QSO host nebulae from velocity structure function measurements

Mandy C. Chen, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Michael Rauch +9

We present the first empirical constraints on the turbulent velocity field of the diffuse circumgalactic medium around four luminous QSOs at --1.1. Spatially exten…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 104 cited

EMPRESS. V. Metallicity Diagnostics of Galaxies over 12+log(O/H)=~6.9-8.9 Established by a Local Galaxy Census: Preparing for JWST Spectroscopy

Kimihiko Nakajima, Masami Ouchi, Yi Xu +13

We present optical-line gas metallicity diagnostics established by the combination of local SDSS galaxies and the largest compilation of extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) inclu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Discovery of a damped Ly absorber originating in a spectacular interacting dwarf galaxy pair at

Erin Boettcher, Neeraj Gupta, Hsiao-Wen Chen +18

We present the discovery of neutral gas detected in both damped Ly absorption (DLA) and HI 21-cm emission outside of the stellar body of a galaxy, the first such detection in th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

EMPRESS. VI. Outflows Investigated in Low-Mass Galaxies with : Weak Feedback in Low-Mass Galaxies?

Yi Xu, Masami Ouchi, Michael Rauch +10

We study emission line profiles of 21 nearby low-mass () galaxies in deep medium-high resolution spectra taken with Magellan/MagE. These low-mass galaxies ar…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) IV: The Complex Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium as Revealed by Partial Lyman Limit Systems

Thomas J. Cooper, Gwen C. Rudie, Hsiao-Wen Chen +18

We present a detailed study of two partial Lyman limit systems (pLLSs) of neutral hydrogen column density discovered at…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 51 cited

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) -- III. Physical properties and elemental abundances of Lyman limit systems at

Fakhri S. Zahedy, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Thomas M. Cooper +18

(Abridged) We present a systematic investigation of physical conditions and elemental abundances in four optically thick Lyman-limit systems (LLSs) at discovered withi…