Resolving the physics of quasar Ly α nebulae (RePhyNe): I. Constraining quasar host halo masses through circumgalactic medium kinematics
(2023)
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de Beer, S., Cantalupo, S., Travascio, A., Pezzulli, G., Galbiati, M., Fossati, M., Fumagalli, M., Lazeyras, T., Pensabene, A., Theuns, T., & Wang, W. (2023). Resolving the physics of quasar Ly α nebulae (RePhyNe): I. Constraining quasar host halo masses through circumgalactic medium kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(2), 1850–1873. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2682
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A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) IX. The effects of ram pressure stripping down to the scale of individual HII regions in the dwarf galaxy IC 3476 (2021)
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Boselli, A., Lupi, A., Epinat, B., Amram, P., Fossati, M., Anderson, J., Boissier, S., Boquien, M., Consolandi, G., Côté, P., Cuillandre, J., Ferrarese, L., Galbany, L., Gavazzi, G., Gómez-López, J., Gwyn, S., Hensler, G., Hutchings, J., Kuncarayakti, H., Longobardi, A., …Vollmer, B. (2021). A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) IX. The effects of ram pressure stripping down to the scale of individual HII regions in the dwarf galaxy IC 3476. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 646, Article A139. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039046We study the IB(s)m galaxy IC 3476 observed in the context of the Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE), a blind narrow-band Hα+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the CFHT. The deep narro... Read More about A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) IX. The effects of ram pressure stripping down to the scale of individual HII regions in the dwarf galaxy IC 3476.
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) VIII. Modeling ram pressure stripping of diffuse gas in the Virgo cluster spiral galaxy NGC 4330 (2021)
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Vollmer, B., Fossati, M., Boselli, A., Soida, M., Gwyn, S., Cuillandre, J., Amram, P., Boissier, S., Boquien, M., & Hensler, G. (2021). A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) VIII. Modeling ram pressure stripping of diffuse gas in the Virgo cluster spiral galaxy NGC 4330. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 645, Article A121. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038507NGC 4330 is one of the Virgo galaxies whose UV emission distributions show a tail structure. An associated tail structure is also observed in the HI and Hα emission distributions. Previous dynamical modeling has shown that the galaxy is approaching t... Read More about A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) VIII. Modeling ram pressure stripping of diffuse gas in the Virgo cluster spiral galaxy NGC 4330.
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - II: Metal-enriched halo gas around z ∼ 1 galaxies (2020)
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Dutta, R., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Lofthouse, E. K., Prochaska, J. X., Battaia, F. A., Bielby, R. M., Cantalupo, S., Cooke, R. J., Murphy, M. T., & O’Meara, J. M. (2020). MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - II: Metal-enriched halo gas around z ∼ 1 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(4), 5022-5046. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3147We present a study of the metal-enriched cool halo gas traced by Mg II absorption around 228 galaxies at z ∼ 0.8–1.5 within 28 quasar fields from the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies survey. We observe no significant evolution in the Mg II equiva... Read More about MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - II: Metal-enriched halo gas around z ∼ 1 galaxies.
The ram pressure stripped radio tails of galaxies in the Coma cluster (2020)
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Roediger, E., Yoshida, M., Ge, C., Sarazin, C., Nulsen, P., Boselli, A., Gavazzi, G., Fossati, M., Jachym, P., Sivanandam, S., Combes, F., Kenney, J., Brinks, E., Bravo-Alfaro, H., Yagi, M., Sun, M., & Chen, H. (2020). The ram pressure stripped radio tails of galaxies in the Coma cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(4), 4654-4673. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1868Previous studies have revealed a population of galaxies in galaxy clusters with ram pressure stripped (RPS) tails of gas and embedded young stars. We observed 1.4 GHz continuum and H I emission with the Very Large Array in its B-configuration in two... Read More about The ram pressure stripped radio tails of galaxies in the Coma cluster.
The Regulation of Galaxy Growth along the Size–Mass Relation by Star Formation, as Traced by Hα in KMOS3D Galaxies at 0.7 ≲ z ≲ 2.7 (2020)
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Wilman, D. J., Fossati, M., Mendel, J. T., Saglia, R., Wisnioski, E., Wuyts, S., Schreiber, N. F., Beifiori, A., Bender, R., Belli, S., Übler, H., Lang, P., Chan, J. C., Davies, R. L., Nelson, E. J., Genzel, R., Tacconi, L. J., Galametz, A., Davies, R. I., Lutz, D., …Dokkum, P. V. (2020). The Regulation of Galaxy Growth along the Size–Mass Relation by Star Formation, as Traced by Hα in KMOS3D Galaxies at 0.7 ≲ z ≲ 2.7. Astrophysical Journal, 892(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7914We present half-light sizes measured from $\,{\rm{H}}\alpha $ emission tracing star formation in 281 star-forming galaxies from the $\,{\mathrm{KMOS}}^{3{\rm{D}}}$ survey at $\,0.7\lesssim z\lesssim 2.7$. Sizes are derived by fitting 2D exponential d... Read More about The Regulation of Galaxy Growth along the Size–Mass Relation by Star Formation, as Traced by Hα in KMOS3D Galaxies at 0.7 ≲ z ≲ 2.7.
Into the Lyα jungle: exploring the circumgalactic medium of galaxies at z ∼ 4 − 5 with MUSE (2020)
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Bielby, R. M., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., Rafelski, M., Oppenheimer, B., Cantalupo, S., Christensen, L., Fynbo, J., Lopez, S., Morris, S. L., D’Odorico, V., & Peroux, C. (2020). Into the Lyα jungle: exploring the circumgalactic medium of galaxies at z ∼ 4 − 5 with MUSE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(4), 5336-5356. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa546We present a study of the galaxy environment of 9 strong H I+C IV absorption line systems (16.2 < log(N(HI)) < 21.2) spanning a wide range in metallicity at z ∼ 4 − 5, using MUSE integral field and X-Shooter spectroscopic data collected in a z ≈ 5.26... Read More about Into the Lyα jungle: exploring the circumgalactic medium of galaxies at z ∼ 4 − 5 with MUSE.
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): VI. Environmental quenching on HII-region scales (2020)
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Boselli, A., Fossati, M., Longobardi, A., Boissier, S., Boquien, M., Braine, J., Côté, P., Cuillandre, J., Epinat, B., Ferrarese, L., Gavazzi, G., Gwyn, S., Hensler, G., Plana, H., Roehlly, Y., Schimd, C., Sun, M., & Trinchieri, G. (2020). A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): VI. Environmental quenching on HII-region scales. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 634, Article L1. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937310The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-band Hα + [NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the Canada-French-Hawaii telescope. We use a new set of data extracted from VESTIG... Read More about A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): VI. Environmental quenching on HII-region scales.
Direct Detection of Black Hole-driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters (2020)
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Li, Y., Gendron-Marsolais, M.-L., Zhuravleva, I., Xu, S., Simionescu, A., Tremblay, G. R., Lochhaas, C., Bryan, G. L., Quataert, E., Murray, N. W., Boselli, A., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Zheng, Y., Fossati, M., Li, M., Emsellem, E., Sarzi, M., Arzamasskiy, L., & Vishniac, E. T. (2020). Direct Detection of Black Hole-driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 889(1), Article L1. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab65c7Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are thought to provide energy that prevents catastrophic cooling in the centers of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters. However, it remains unclear how this "feedback" process operates. We use high-resolution optical... Read More about Direct Detection of Black Hole-driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters.
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5 (2019)
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Lofthouse, E. K., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., O’Meara, J. M., Murphy, M. T., Christensen, L., Prochaska, J. X., Cantalupo, S., Bielby, R. M., Cooke, R. J., Lusso, E., & Morris, S. L. (2020). MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(2), 2057-2074. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3066We present the design, methods, and first results of the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, a large programme on the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) which targets 28 z > 3.2 quasa... Read More about MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5.