Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

The COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopy Survey (CLASSY) Treasury Atlas

DA Berg, BL James, T King, M McDonald… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Far-ultraviolet (FUV;∼ 1200–2000 Å) spectra are fundamental to our understanding
of star-forming galaxies, providing a unique window on massive stellar populations …

A tale of two DIGs: The relative role of H II regions and low-mass hot evolved stars in powering the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) in PHANGS–MUSE galaxies

F Belfiore, F Santoro, B Groves, E Schinnerer… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We use integral field spectroscopy from the PHANGS–MUSE survey, which resolves the
ionised interstellar medium structure at∼ 50 pc resolution in 19 nearby spiral galaxies, to …

CLASSY IV. Exploring UV diagnostics of the interstellar medium in local high-z analogs at the dawn of the JWST era

M Mingozzi, BL James… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) Legacy Archive Spectroscopic SurveY
(CLASSY) provides the first high-resolution spectral catalog of 45 local high-z analogs in the …

The thesan project: predictions for multitracer line intensity mapping in the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, A Smith, E Garaldi, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Line intensity mapping (LIM) is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique to study galaxy
formation and cosmology in the high-redshift Universe. We present LIM estimates of select …

MMT/MMIRS spectroscopy of z = 1.3 - 2.4 extreme [O iii] emitters: implications for galaxies in the reionization era

M Tang, DP Stark, J Chevallard… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Galaxies in the reionization era have been shown to have prominent [O iii]+ H β emission.
Little is known about the gas conditions and radiation field of this population, making it …

High-redshift JWST predictions from IllustrisTNG: dust modelling and galaxy luminosity functions

M Vogelsberger, D Nelson, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) promises to revolutionize our
understanding of the early Universe, and contrasting its upcoming observations with …

Constraining the metallicities, ages, star formation histories, and ionizing continua of extragalactic massive star populations∗

J Chisholm, JR Rigby, M Bayliss, DA Berg… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We infer the properties of massive star populations using the far-ultraviolet stellar continua of
61 star-forming galaxies: 42 at low redshift observed with the Hubble Space Telescope and …

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) – II: metal-enriched halo gas around z ∼ 1 galaxies

R Dutta, M Fumagalli, M Fossati… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We 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 …