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 cosmic baryon and metal cycles

C Péroux, JC Howk - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Characterizing the relationship between stars, gas, and metals in galaxies is a critical
component of understanding the cosmic baryon cycle. We compile contemporary censuses …

FIREbox: simulating galaxies at high dynamic range in a cosmological volume

R Feldmann, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of cosmological volume simulations to study the evolution of galaxies
as part of the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. FIREbox, the principal simulation …

Using Lyman-α to detect galaxies that leak Lyman continuum

A Verhamme, I Orlitová, D Schaerer… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Aims. We propose to infer the output of the ionising continuum-leaking properties of galaxies
based upon their Lyα line profiles. Methods. We carried out Lyα radiation transfer …

Dust-depletion sequences in damped Lyman-α absorbers-A unified picture from low-metallicity systems to the Galaxy

A De Cia, C Ledoux, L Mattsson, P Petitjean… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We study metal depletion due to dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) to infer the properties
of dust grains and characterize the metal and dust content of galaxies down to low metallicity …

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) – IV. The gaseous environment of z ∼ 3–4 Ly α emitting galaxies

EK Lofthouse, M Fumagalli, M Fossati… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the link between galaxies and H i-selected absorption systems at z∼ 3–4 in the
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, an ESO large programme …

The ESO UVES advanced data products quasar sample-II. Cosmological evolution of the neutral gas mass density

T Zafar, C Péroux, A Popping, B Milliard… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Damped absorbers, seen in the spectra of background quasars, are unique probes to select
H i-rich galaxies. These galaxies allow one to estimate the neutral gas mass over …

Consensus report on 25 yr of searches for damped Ly α galaxies in emission: confirming their metallicity–luminosity relation at z ≳ 2

JK Krogager, P Møller, JPU Fynbo… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Starting from a summary of detection statistics of our recent X-shooter campaign, we review
the major surveys, both space and ground based, for emission counterparts of high-redshift …

XQ-100: A legacy survey of one hundred 3.5≲ z≲ 4.5 quasars observed with VLT/X-shooter

S López, V D'Odorico, SL Ellison, GD Becker… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We describe the execution and data reduction of the European Southern Observatory Large
Programme “Quasars and their absorption lines: a legacy survey of the high-redshift …

Metal-enriched, subkiloparsec gas clumps in the circumgalactic medium of a faint z = 2.5 galaxy

NHM Crighton, JF Hennawi, RA Simcoe… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We report the serendipitous detection of a 0.2 L*, Lyα emitting galaxy at redshift 2.5 at an
impact parameter of 50 kpc from a bright background QSO sightline. A high-resolution …