Search Results - "RIGBY, Jane"
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Gravitational lensing reveals ionizing ultraviolet photons escaping from a distant galaxy
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-11-2019)“…During the epoch of reionization, neutral gas in the early Universe was ionized by hard ultraviolet radiation emitted by young stars in the first galaxies. To…”
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Theoretical ISM Pressure and Electron Density Diagnostics for Local and High-redshift Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-07-2019)“…We derive new self-consistent theoretical UV, optical, and IR diagnostics for the interstellar medium (ISM) pressure and electron density in the ionized…”
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A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-08-2023)“…Abstract We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z = 8.679. This galaxy, denoted here as CEERS_1019, was previously discovered as a…”
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THE CARNEGIE HUBBLE PROGRAM: THE DISTANCE AND STRUCTURE OF THE SMC AS REVEALED BY MID-INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF CEPHEIDS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-01-2016)“…ABSTRACT Using Spitzer observations of classical Cepheids we have measured the true average distance modulus of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to be mag…”
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CONSTRAINING THE LOW-MASS SLOPE OF THE STAR FORMATION SEQUENCE AT 0.5 < z < 2.5
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2014)“…We constrain the slope of the star formation rate (SFR; log [Psi]) to stellar mass (log M sub(*)) relation down to log(M sub(*)/M sub([middot in circle])) =…”
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A MAGNIFIED VIEW OF THE KINEMATICS AND MORPHOLOGY OF RCSGA 032727-132609: ZOOMING IN ON A MERGER AT z = 1.7
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2014)“…We present a detailed analysis of multi-wavelength Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging and Keck/OSIRIS near-infrared adaptive…”
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A clumpy and anisotropic galaxy halo at redshift 1 from gravitational-arc tomography
Published in Nature (London) (22-02-2018)“…The halo of gas around a galaxy at redshift 1 is clumpy and anisotropic, with little variation in gas velocity, suggesting that it consists of entrained…”
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THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS, METALLICITY AND METAL ABUNDANCE RATIOS IN A HIGHLY MAGNIFIED GALAXY AT z = 3.6252
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2014)“…We present optical and near-IR imaging and spectroscopy of SGAS J 105039.6+001730, a strongly lensed galaxy at z = 3.6252 magnified by >30x, and derive its…”
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METAL-POOR, STRONGLY STAR-FORMING GALAXIES IN THE DEEP2 SURVEY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STELLAR MASS, TEMPERATURE-BASED METALLICITY, AND STAR FORMATION RATE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2015)“…ABSTRACT We report on the discovery of 28 metal-poor galaxies in DEEP2. These galaxies were selected for their detection of the weak [O iii] λ4363 emission…”
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Spatially Resolved Galactic Wind in Lensed Galaxy RCSGA 032727-132609
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-05-2016)“…We probe the spatial distribution of outflowing gas along four lines of sight separated by up to 6 kpc in a gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxy at z =…”
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The COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopy Survey (CLASSY) Treasury Atlas
Published in The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series (01-08-2022)“…Abstract Far-ultraviolet (FUV; ∼1200–2000 Å) spectra are fundamental to our understanding of star-forming galaxies, providing a unique window on massive…”
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CARNEGIE HUBBLE PROGRAM: A MID-INFRARED CALIBRATION OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-10-2012)“…Using a mid-infrared calibration of the Cepheid distance scale based on recent observations at 3.6 mu m with the Spitzer Space Telescope, we have obtained a…”
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CONSTRAINTS ON THE LOW-MASS END OF THE MASS-METALLICITY RELATION AT z = 1-2 FROM LENSED GALAXIES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2012)“…We present multi-wavelength imaging and near-IR spectroscopy for 10 gravitationally lensed galaxies at 0.9 < z < 2.5 selected from a new, large sample of…”
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A Comparison of UV and Optical Metallicities in Star-forming Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-04-2020)“…Our ability to study the properties of the interstellar medium in the earliest galaxies will rely on emission-line diagnostics at rest-frame ultraviolet (UV)…”
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JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift z = 6.2
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-11-2022)“…Abstract The gravitationally lensed star WHL 0137–LS, nicknamed Earendel, was identified with a photometric redshift z phot = 6.2 ± 0.1 based on images taken…”
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Hubble Constant Measurement from Three Large-separation Quasars Strongly Lensed by Galaxy Clusters
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract Tension between cosmic microwave background–based and distance ladder–based determinations of the Hubble constant H 0 motivates the pursuit of…”
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Asymmetric Surface Brightness Structure of Caustic Crossing Arc in SDSS J1226+2152: A Case for Dark Matter Substructure
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2020)“…We study the highly magnified arc SGAS J122651.3+215220 caused by a star-forming galaxy at zs = 2.93 crossing the lensing caustic cast by the galaxy cluster…”
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Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (23-03-2024)“…ABSTRACT Nearly a decade ago, we began to see indications that reionization-era galaxies power hard radiation fields rarely seen at lower redshift. Most…”
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Spectroscopy of CASSOWARY gravitationally lensed galaxies in SDSS: characterization of an extremely bright reionization-era analogue at z = 1.42
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (15-02-2023)“…ABSTRACT We present new observations of 16 bright (r = 19–21) gravitationally lensed galaxies at z ≃ 1–3 selected from the CASSOWARY survey. Included in our…”
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The Connection Between Galactic Outflows and the Escape of Ionizing Photons
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2022)“…Abstract We analyze spectra of a gravitationally lensed galaxy, known as the Sunburst Arc, that is leaking ionizing photons, also known as the Lyman continuum…”
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