The Relationship Between Stellar Populations and Lyman Alpha Emission in Lyman Break Galaxies (2009)
Kornei, Katherine A., Shapley, Alice E., Erb, Dawn K., Steidel, Charles C., Reddy, Naveen A., Pettini, Max, ...
We present the results of a photometric and spectroscopic survey of 321 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z ~ 3 to investigate systematically the relationship between Lya emission and stellar...
Quider, Anna M., Shapley, Alice E., Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Stark, Daniel P.
We report the results of a study of the rest-frame UV spectrum of the Cosmic Eye, a luminous Lyman break galaxy at z=3.07331 gravitationally lensed by a factor of 25. The spectrum, recorded with the...
The SINS Survey: Broad Emission Lines in High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies (2009)
Shapiro, Kristen L., Genzel, Reinhard, Quataert, Eliot, Förster Schreiber, Natascha M., Davies, Richard, Tacconi, Linda, ...
High signal-to-noise, representative spectra of star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2, obtained via stacking, reveal a high-velocity component underneath the narrow Hα and [NII] emission lines. When...
Quider, Anna M., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C.
Taking advantage of strong gravitational lensing, we have recorded the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of the z= 2.38115 galaxy 'the Cosmic Horseshoe' (J1148+1930) at higher resolution and...
Wright, Shelley A., Larkin, James E., Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Erb, Dawn K.
We present 0".2 resolution near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of Hα emission from six star-forming galaxies at z ~ 1.6 (a look-back time of ~9.6 Gyr). These observations were obtained with...
Quider, Anna M., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C.
Taking advantage of strong gravitational lensing, we have recorded the rest-frame UV spectrum of the z = 2.38115 galaxy `The Cosmic Horseshoe' (J1148+1930) at higher resolution and S/N than is...
The Kiloparsec-scale Kinematics of High-redshift Star-forming Galaxies (2009)
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Larkin, James E., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., ...
We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of the kinematic structure of star-forming galaxies at redshift z ~ 2-3 using Keck/OSIRIS integral field spectroscopy. Our sample is comprised of 12...
The SINS Survey: Broad H-alpha Emission in High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies (2009)
Shapiro, Kristen L., Genzel, Reinhard, Quataert, Eliot, Schreiber, Natascha M. Förster, Davies, Richard, Tacconi, Linda, ...
High signal-to-noise, representative spectra of star-forming galaxies at z~2, obtained via stacking of the galaxies observed in the context of the SINS survey, reveal broad (FWHM > 1500 km/s) H-alpha...
Kinematics and Formation Mechanisms of High-Redshift Galaxies (2009)
Law, David R., Wright, Shelley A., Ellis, Richard S., Erb, Dawn K., Nesvadba, Nicole, Steidel, Charles C., ...
Recent years have witnessed a substantial increase in our ability to trace the spatially resolved properties of rapidly star-forming galaxies in the high-redshift universe and numerous studies have...
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C.
We use the deep ground-based optical photometry of the Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) Survey to derive robust measurements of the faint-end slope (α) of the UV luminosity function (LF) at redshifts 1.9...
The Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies (2009)
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Larkin, James E., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., ...
We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of the kinematic structure of star-forming galaxies at redshift z ~ 2 - 3 using Keck/OSIRIS integral field spectroscopy. Our sample is comprised of 12...
The SINS survey: broad emission lines in high-redshift star-forming galaxies (2009)
Shapiro, Kristen L., Genzel, Reinhard, Quataert, Eliot, Förster Schreiber, Natascha M., Davies, Richard, Tacconi, Linda, ...
Deuterium abundance in the most metal-poor damped Lyman alpha system: converging on Ωb,0h^2 (2008)
Pettini, Max, Zych, Berkeley J., Murphy, Michael T., Lewis, Antony, Steidel, Charles C.
The most metal-poor damped Lyα system known to date, at zabs= 2.61843 in the spectrum of the QSO Q0913+072, with an oxygen abundance of only ∼1/250 of the solar value, shows six well-resolved DI...
Wright, Shelley A., Larkin, James E., Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Erb, Dawn K.
We present 0.2" resolution near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of H-alpha emission from six star forming galaxies at z~1.6 (look-back time of ~9.6 Gyr). These observations were obtained with...
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C.
We use the deep ground-based optical photometry of the Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) Survey to derive robust measurements of the faint-end slope (alpha) of the UV LF at redshifts 1.94, and implies that...
Pettini, Max, Zych, Berkeley J., Murphy, Michael T., Lewis, Antony, Steidel, Charles C.
The most metal-poor DLA known to date, at z = 2.61843 in the spectrum of the QSO Q0913+072, with an oxygen abundance only about 1/250 of the solar value, shows six well resolved D I Lyman series...
C, N, O abundances in the most metal-poor damped Lyman alpha systems (2008)
Pettini, Max, Zych, Berkeley J., Steidel, Charles C., Chaffee, Fred H.
This study focuses on some of the most metal-poor damped Lyα (DLA) absorbers known in the spectra of high-redshift QSOs, using new and archival observations obtained with ultraviolet-sensitive...
The X-ray luminosity function of AGN at z~3 (2008)
Aird, James, Nandra, Kirpal, Georgakakis, Antonis, Laird, Elise S., Steidel, Charles C., Sharon, Chelsea
We combine Lyman-break colour selection with ultradeep (> 200 ks) Chandra X-ray imaging over a survey area of ~0.35 deg^2 to select high redshift AGN. Applying careful corrections for both the...
Detection of the transverse proximity effect : radiative feedback from bright QSOs (2008)
Gonçalves, Thiago S., Steidel, Charles C., Pettini, Max
Measuring the response of the intergalactic medium (IGM) to a blast of ionizing radiation allows one to infer the physical properties of the medium and, in principle, the lifetime and isotropy of the...
Halo gas cross sections and covering fractions of MgII absorption selected galaxies (2008)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T.
We examine halo gas cross sections and covering fractions, fc, of intermediate-redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies. We computed statistical absorber halo radii, Rx, using current values of...
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C., Pettini, Max, Adelberger, Kurt L., Shapley, Alice E., Erb, Dawn K., ...
We use a sample of rest-frame UV-selected and spectroscopically observed galaxies at redshifts 1.9 ≤ z < 3.4, combined with ground-based spectroscopic Hα and Spitzer MIPS 24 μm data, to derive...
Pettini, Max, Zych, Berkeley J., Murphy, Michael T., Lewis, Antony M., Steidel, Charles C.
The most metal-poor damped Lyα system known to date, at z abs = 2.61843 in the spectrum of the QSO Q0913+072, with an oxygen abundance of only ∼1/250 of the solar value, shows six...
Halo gas cross sections and covering fractions of Mg II absorption selected galaxies (2008)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T.
We examine halo gas cross sections and covering fractions, fc , of intermediate-redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies. We computed statistical absorber halo radii, Rx, using current values of...
Pettini, Max, Zych, Berkeley J., Murphy, Michael T., Lewis, Antony M., Steidel, Charles C.
The most metal-poor damped Lyα system known to date, at z abs = 2.61843 in the spectrum of the QSO Q0913+072, with an oxygen abundance of only ∼1/250 of the solar value, shows six well-resolved D...
Halo gas cross sections and covering fractions of Mg II absorption selected galaxies (2008)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T.
We examine halo gas cross sections and covering fractions, fc , of intermediate-redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies. We computed statistical absorber halo radii, Rx, using current values of...
C, N, O Abundances in the Most Metal-Poor Damped Lyman alpha Systems (2007)
Pettini, Max, Zych, Berkeley J., Steidel, Charles C., Chaffee, Fred H.
This study focuses on some of the most metal-poor damped Lyman alpha absorbers known in the spectra of high redshift QSOs, using new and archival observations obtained with UV-sensitive echelle...
The Discovery of Primeval Galaxies and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation (2007)
Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Kurt L. Adelberger, Melinda Kellogg, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco
In the last two years there have been major advances in our ability to identify and study normal star forming galaxies at high redshifts, when the universe was only 15 % of its present age. We review...
The Spectra of Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (2007)
At High Redshift, Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco, Kurt L. Adelberger
. We review the spectral properties of the population of star forming galaxies at z ¸ 3 discovered using a colour selection technique which targets the Lyman discontinuity at 912 A. The UV...
The Sightline to Q2343-BX415: Clues to Galaxy Formation in a Quasar Environment (2007)
Rix, Samantha A., Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Reddy, Naveen A., Adelberger, Kurt L., Erb, Dawn K., ...
We have discovered a strong DLA coincident in redshift with the faint QSO Q2343-BX415 (R = 20.2, z_(em) = 2.57393). Follow-up observations at intermediate spectral resolution reveal that the metal...
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Larkin, James E., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., ...
We present early results from an ongoing study of the kinematic structure of star-forming galaxies at redshift z similar to 2-3 using integral-field spectroscopy of rest-frame optical nebular...
Morphologies of Galaxies in and around a Protocluster at z = 2.300 (2007)
Peter, Annika H. G., Shapley, Alice E., Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Reddy, Naveen A., ...
We present results from the first robust investigation of galaxy morphology as a function of environment at z > 1.5. Our study is motivated by the fact that star-forming galaxies contained within a...
The Sightline to Q2343-BX415: Clues to Galaxy Formation in a Quasar Environment (2007)
Rix, Samantha A., Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Reddy, Naveen A., Adelberger, Kurt L., Erb, Dawn K., ...
(Abridged) We have discovered a strong DLA coincident in redshift with the faint QSO Q2343-BX415 (R = 20.2, z_em = 2.57393). Follow-up observations at intermediate spectral resolution reveal that the...
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Larkin, James E., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., ...
We present early results from an ongoing study of the kinematic structure of star-forming galaxies at redshift z ~ 2 - 3 using integral-field spectroscopy of rest-frame optical nebular emission lines...
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C., Pettini, Max, Adelberger, Kurt L., Shapley, Alice E., Erb, Dawn K., ...
We use a sample of rest-frame UV selected and spectroscopically observed galaxies at redshifts 1.9
Morphologies of Galaxies in and around a Protocluster at z=2.300 (2007)
Peter, Annika H. G., Shapley, Alice E., Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Reddy, Naveen A., ...
We present results from the first robust investigation of galaxy morphology as a function of environment at z>1.5. Our study is motivated by the fact that star-forming galaxies contained within a...
A Correlation Between Galaxy Morphology and MgII Halo Absorption Strength (2007)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T., Evans, Jessica L.
(Abridged) We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift MgII absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas, observed in the spectra of...
The physical nature of rest-UV galaxy morphology during the peak epoch of galaxy formation (2007)
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Pettini, Max, Reddy, Naveen A., Shapley, Alice E., ...
Motivated by the irregular and little-understood morphologies of z similar to 2-3 galaxies, we use nonparametric coefficients to quantify the morphologies of 216 galaxies that have been...
A correlation between galaxy morphology and Mg II halo absorption strength (2007)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T., Evans, Jessica L.
We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas [ 0.03 angstrom
A correlation between galaxy morphology and Mg II halo absorption strength (2007)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T., Evans, Jessica L.
We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas [ 0.03 angstrom
A correlation between galaxy morphology and Mg II halo absorption strength (2007)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T., Evans, Jessica L.
We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas [ 0.03 angstrom
A correlation between galaxy morphology and Mg II halo absorption strength (2007)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T., Evans, Jessica L.
We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas [ 0.03 angstrom
A correlation between galaxy morphology and Mg II halo absorption strength (2007)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Murphy, Michael T., Evans, Jessica L.
We compared the quantified morphological properties of 37 intermediate redshift Mg II absorption selected galaxies to the properties of the absorbing halo gas [ 0.03 angstrom
On the Heterogeneity of Metal-Line and Ly-Alpha Absorption in Galaxy "Halos" at z~0.7 (2006)
Churchill, Christopher W., Kacprzak, Glenn G., Steidel, Charles C., Evans, Jessica L.
We examine the properties of two galaxy "halos" at z ~ 0.7 in the TON 153 (z_em = 1.01) quasar field. The first absorber-galaxy pair (G1) is a z = 0.672, L_B = 4.3 L*_B, E/S0 galaxy probed at D = 58...
The Physical Nature of Rest-UV Galaxy Morphology During the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Formation (2006)
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Pettini, Max, Reddy, Naveen A., Shapley, Alice E., ...
Motivated by the irregular and little-understood morphologies of z ~ 2 - 3 galaxies, we use non-parametric coefficents to quantify the morphologies of 216 galaxies which have been spectroscopically...
A Spectroscopic Survey of Redshift 1.4 (2006)
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Shapley, Alice E., Pettini, Max
We present the results of a spectroscopic survey with the Keck I telescope of more than 280 star-forming galaxies and AGN at redshifts 1.41.4 sample are undetected in the deep X-ray data but exhibit...
The Direct Detection of Lyman-Continuum Emission from Star-forming Galaxies at z~3 (2006)
Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C., Pettini, Max, Adelberger, Kurt L., Erb, Dawn K.
We present the results of rest-frame ultraviolet spectroscopic observations of a sample of 14 z~3 star-forming galaxies in the SSA22a field. These spectra are characterized by unprecedented depth in...
Erb, Dawn K., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Pettini, Max, Reddy, Naveen A., Adelberger, Kurt L.
Using H-alpha spectra of 114 rest-frame UV-selected galaxies at z~2, we compare inferred star formation rates (SFRs) with those determined from the UV continuum luminosity. After correcting for...
The Stellar, Gas and Dynamical Masses of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2 (2006)
Erb, Dawn K., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Pettini, Max, Reddy, Naveen A., Adelberger, Kurt L.
We present analysis of the near-infrared spectra of 114 rest-frame UV-selected star-forming galaxies at z~2. By combining the H-alpha spectra with photometric measurements from observed 0.3--8...
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C., Fadda, Dario, Yan, Lin, Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., ...
Using very deep Spitzer/MIPS 24 micron observations, we present an analysis of the bolometric luminosities (L[bol]) and UV extinction properties of more than 200 spectroscopically identified,...
The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z~2 (2006)
Erb, Dawn K., Shapley, Alice E., Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Reddy, Naveen A., Adelberger, Kurt L.
We use a sample of 87 rest-frame UV-selected star-forming galaxies with mean spectroscopic redshift z=2.26 to study the correlation between metallicity and stellar mass at high redshift. Using...
The SINS survey: rotation curves and dynamical evolution of distant galaxies with SINFONI (2006)
Förster Schreiber, Natascha M., Genzel, Reinhard, Eisenhauer, Frank, Lehnert, Matthew D., Tacconi, Linda J., Nesvadba, Nicole, ...
Predictions and Strategies for Integral-Field Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Galaxies (2005)
Law, David R., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K.
We investigate the ability of infrared integral-field spectrographs to map the velocity fields of high redshift galaxies, presenting a formalism which may be applied to any telescope and imaging...
Reddy, Naveen A., Erb, Dawn K., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Adelberger, Kurt L., Pettini, Max
Using the extensive multi-wavelength data in the GOODS-North field, we construct and draw comparisons between samples of optical and near-IR selected star-forming and passively evolving galaxies at...
Zn and Cr abundances in damped Lyman alpha systems from the CORALS survey (2005)
Akerman, Chris J., Ellison, Sara L., Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C.
We present metal abundances in 15 damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) from the Complete Optical and Radio Absorption Line System (CORALS) survey, designed to be free from any biasing effects due to...
Galaxy Morphology - Halo Gas Connections (2005)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C.
We studied a sample of 38 intermediate redshift MgII absorption-selected galaxies using (1) Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES quasar spectra to measure the halo gas kinematics from MgII absorption profiles and...
MgII Absorption through Intermediate Redshift Galaxies (2005)
Churchill, Christopher W., Kacprzak, Glenn G., Steidel, Charles C.
The current status and remaining questions of MgII absorbers are reviewed with an eye toward new results incorporating high quality Hubble Space Telescope images of the absorbing galaxies. In the...
Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C., Erb, Dawn K., Reddy, Naveen A., Adelberger, Kurt L., Pettini, Max, ...
We present the broad-band UV through mid-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a sample of 72 spectroscopically-confirmed star-forming galaxies at z=2.30+/-0.3. Located in a 72...
Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Shapley, Alice E., Erb, Dawn K., Reddy, Naveen A., Pettini, Max
We have discovered a highly significant over-density of galaxies at z=2.300+/-0.015 in the course of a redshift survey designed to select star-forming galaxies in the redshift range z=2.3+/-0.4 in...
Strong Spatial Clustering of UV-selected Galaxies with Magnitude Ks (2005)
Adelberger, Kurt L., Erb, Dawn K., Steidel, Charles C., Reddy, Naveen A., Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E.
We obtained deep 8.5'x8.5' near-infrared images within four high-redshift survey fields, measured the Ks magnitudes of 300 optically selected galaxies with spectroscopic redshift 1.8
Galaxy morphology: halo gas connections (2005)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C.
We studied a sample of 38 intermediate redshift Mgii absorption-selected galaxies using (1) Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES quasar spectra to measure the halo gas kinematics from Mgii absorption profiles and...
MgII absorption through intermediate redshift galaxies (2005)
Churchill, Christopher W., Kacprzak, Glenn G., Steidel, Charles C.
The current status and remaining questions of Mgii absorbers are reviewed with an eye toward new results incorporating high quality Hubble Space Telescope images of the absorbing galaxies. In the...
Galaxy morphology: halo gas connections (2005)
Kacprzak, Glenn G., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C.
We studied a sample of 38 intermediate redshift Mgii absorption-selected galaxies using (1) Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES quasar spectra to measure the halo gas kinematics from Mgii absorption profiles and...
MgII absorption through intermediate redshift galaxies (2005)
Churchill, Christopher W., Kacprzak, Glenn G., Steidel, Charles C.
The current status and remaining questions of Mgii absorbers are reviewed with an eye toward new results incorporating high quality Hubble Space Telescope images of the absorbing galaxies. In the...
Rix, Samantha A., Pettini, Max, Leitherer, Claus, Bresolin, Fabio, Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter, Steidel, Charles C.
The chemical composition of high redshift galaxies is an important property which gives clues to their past history and future evolution and yet is difficult to measure with current techniques. In...
NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. The thesis consists primarily of 4 parts, which are separate but related insofar as...
The Kinematics of Morphologically Selected z~2 Galaxies in the GOODS-N Field (2004)
Erb, Dawn K., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Pettini, Max, Adelberger, Kurt L.
We present near-IR spectra of H-alpha emission from 13 galaxies at z~2 in the GOODS-N field. The galaxies were selected primarily because they appear to have elongated morphologies, and slits were...
Riess, Adam G., Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Tonry, John, Casertano, Stefano, Ferguson, Henry C., Mobasher, Bahram, ...
We have discovered 16 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and have used them to provide the first conclusive evidence for cosmic deceleration that preceded the current...
X-Ray and Radio Emission from UV-Selected Star Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 1.5 (2004)
Reddy, Naveen A., Steidel, Charles C.
We have examined the stacked radio and X-ray emission from UV-selected galaxies spectroscopically confirmed to lie between redshifts 1.5 < z < 3.0 in the GOODS-North field to determine their average...
Optical Selection of Galaxies at Redshifts 1 (2004)
Adelberger, Kurt L., Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Hunt, Matthew P., Erb, Dawn K., Reddy, Naveen A., ...
Few galaxies have been found between the redshift ranges z < ~1 probed by magnitude-limited surveys and z > ~3 probed by Lyman-break surveys. Comparison of galaxy samples at lower and higher redshift...
Mg II absorbing galaxies: morphologies and kinematics (2004)
Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Kacprzak, Glenn G.
In this contribution, we review our current knowledge of the properties of galaxies, and their extended halos, selected by Mg II absorption in the spectra of background quasars. We then describe...
Mg II absorbing galaxies: morphologies and kinematics (2004)
Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Kacprzak, Glenn G.
In this contribution, we review our current knowledge of the properties of galaxies, and their extended halos, selected by Mg II absorption in the spectra of background quasars. We then describe...
The faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z=3 (2003)
Hunt, Matthew P., Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Shapley, Alice E.
We present the first measurement of the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z=3. The QSOs, which range from M_1450 = -21 to M_1450 = -27, were discovered in 17 fields totaling 0.43 deg^2...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Galaxies in Early Data (2003)
Coil, Alison L., Davis, Marc, Madgwick, Darren S., Newman, Jeffrey A., Conselice, Christopher J., Cooper, Michael, ...
We measure the two-point correlation function xi(r) using a sample of 2219 galaxies in an area of 0.32 degrees^2 at z=0.7-1.35 from the first season of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. We find that...
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spectral classification of galaxies at z~1 (2003)
Madgwick, Darren S., Coil, Alison L., Conselice, Christopher J., Cooper, Michael C., Davis, Marc, Ellis, Richard S., ...
We present a Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based spectral classification, eta, for the first 5600 galaxies observed in the DEEP2 Redshift Survey. This parameter provides a very pronounced...
H-alpha Spectroscopy of Galaxies at z>2: Kinematics and Star Formation (2003)
Erb, Dawn K., Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C., Pettini, Max, Adelberger, Kurt L., Hunt, Matthew P., ...
We present near-infrared spectroscopy of H-alpha emission lines in a sample of 16 star-forming galaxies at redshifts 2.0
Far-infrared galaxies in the far-ultraviolet (2002)
Goldader, Jeffrey D., Meurer, Gerhardt, Heckman, Timothy M., Seibert, Mark, Sanders, D. B., Calzetti, Daniela, ...
In an effort to better understand the UV properties of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs), and compare them to the rest-frame UV properties of high redshift submillimeter and Lyman-break...
Far-Infrared Galaxies in the Far-Ultraviolet (2001)
Goldader, Jeffrey D., Meurer, Gerhardt, Heckman, Timothy M., Seibert, Mark, Sanders, D. B., Calzetti, Daniela, ...
In an effort to better understand the UV properties of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs), and compare them to the rest-frame UV properties of high redshift sub-mm and Lyman-break galaxies, we...
New Observations of the Interstellar Medium in the Lyman Break Galaxy MS 1512-cB58 (2001)
Pettini, Max, Rix, Samantha A., Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Hunt, Matthew P., Shapley, Alice E.
We present the results of a detailed study of the interstellar medium of MS 1512-cB58, an L* Lyman break galaxy at z = 2.7276, based on new spectral observations obtained with the Echelle...
Riess, Adam G., Nugent, Peter E., Schmidt, Brian P., Tonry, John, Dickinson, Mark, Gilliland, Ronald L., ...
We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of ~1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. SN 1997ff, was discovered in a repeat observation by the HST of...
Riess, Adam G., Nugent, Peter E., Schmidt, Brian P., Tonry, John, Dickinson, Mark, Gilliland, Ronald L., ...
We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of approximately 1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997, was discovered in a repeat...
Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C., Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Dickinson, Mark, Moorwood, Alan F. M., ...
We present the first results of a spectroscopic survey of Lyman break galaxies in the near-infrared aimed at detecting the emission lines of [O II], [O III], and Hbeta from the H II regions of star...
Deep Observations of Lyman Break Galaxies (2001)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Adelberger, Kurt L., Moorwood, Alan F. M., Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, ...
We summarise the main results of recent work on the Lyman break galaxy population which takes advantage of newly commissioned instrumentation on the VLT and Keck telescopes to push the detection of...
Adam G. Riess, Peter E. Nugent, Ronald L. Gilliland, Brian P. Schmidt, John Tonry, Mark Dickinson, ...
We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of D1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997+, was discovered in a repeat observation...
H-alpha Imaging with HST+NICMOS of An Elusive Damped Ly-alpha Cloud at z=0.6 (2000)
Bouche, Nicolas, Lowenthal, James D., Charlton, Jane C., Bershady, Matthew A., Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C.
Despite previous intensive ground-based imaging and spectroscopic campaigns and wide-band HST imaging of the z=0.927 QSO 3C336 field, the galaxy that hosts the damped Ly-alpha system along this...
Ellison, Sara L., Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E.
We present the results of a series of imaging and spectroscopic observations aimed at identifying and studying the galaxy responsible for the z = 3.38639 damped lya system in the z = 3.61 QSO...
Churchill, Christopher W., Mellon, Richard R., Charlton, Jane C., Jannuzi, Buell T., Kirhakos, Sofia, Steidel, Charles C., ...
[Abridged] We examine a sample of 45 Mg II absorption-selected systems over the redshift range 0.4 to 1.4. Mg II and Fe II absorption profiles were observed at a resolution of ~6 km/s with...
Churchill, Christopher W., Mellon, Richard R., Charlton, Jane C., Jannuzi, Buell T., Kirhakos, Sofia, Steidel, Charles C., ...
We present extensive metal-line absorption properties for 45 absorption systems that were selected by their Mg II absorption at redshifts between 0.4 and 1.4. For each system the properties of...
Extremely Red Objects in the Field of QSO 1213-0017: A Galaxy Concentration at z=1.31 (2000)
Liu, Michael C., Dey, Arjun, Graham, James R., Bundy, Kevin A., Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., ...
We have discovered a concentration of extremely red objects (EROs; R-K>6) in the field of the z=2.69 quasar QSO 1213-0017 (UM 485), which is significantly overabundant compared to the field ERO...
Extremely Red Objects in the Field of QSO 1213-0017: A Galaxy Concentration at z=1.31 (1999)
Liu, Michael C., Dey, Arjun, Graham, James R., Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L.
We have discovered an excess of extremely red objects (EROs) surrounding the z=2.69 quasar QSO 1213-0017 (UM 485). Optical/IR colors for these galaxies are consistent with z=1-2 ellipticals, and...
Si and Mn Abundances in Damped Lya Systems with Low Dust Content (1999)
Pettini, Max, Ellison, Sara, Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Bowen, David V.
We have measured the abundances of Zn, Si, Mn, Cr, Fe, and Ni in three damped Lyman alpha systems at redshifts z < 1 from high resolution echelle spectra of QSOs recorded with the Keck I telescope....
Hogg, David W., Pahre, Michael A., Adelberger, Kurt L., Blandford, Roger, Cohen, Judith G., Gautier, T. N., ...
Detection and photometry of sources in the U_n, G, R, and K_s bands in a 9x9 arcmin^2 region of the sky, centered on the Hubble Deep Field, are described. The data permit construction of complete...
A search for the submillimetre counterparts to Lyman break galaxies (1999)
Chapman, Scott C., Scott, Douglas, Steidel, Charles C., Borys, Colin, Halpern, Mark, Morris, Simon L., ...
We have carried out targetted sub-mm observations as part of a programme to explore the connection between the rest-frame UV and far-IR properties of star-forming galaxies at high redshift, which is...
The Unusual Infrared Object HDF-N J123656.3+621322 (1999)
Dickinson, Mark, Hanley, Christopher, Elston, Richard, Eisenhardt, Peter R., Stanford, S. A., Adelberger, Kurt L., ...
We describe an object in the Hubble Deep Field North with very unusual near-infrared properties. It is readily visible in Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS images at 1.6um and from the ground at 2.2um,...
The Ultraviolet Spectrum of MS 1512-cB58: An Insight into Lyman Break Galaxies (1999)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro
We present an intermediate resolution, high S/N spectrum of the z = 2.7268 galaxy MS 1512-cB58, obtained with LRIS on the Keck I telescope and covering the rest frame far-UV from 1150 to 1930 A....
Pettini, Max, Ellison, Sara L., Steidel, Charles C., Bowen, David V.
We explore the redshift evolution of the metal content of damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) with new observations of four absorbers at z < 1.5 . The main conclusion is that the column...
Infared Observations of Nebular Emission Lines from Galaxies at z = 3 (1998)
Pettini, Max, Kellogg, Melinda, Steidel, Charles C., Dickinson, Mark, Adelberger, Kurt L., Giavalisco, Mauro
We present the first results from a program of near-infrared spectroscopy aimed at studying the familiar rest-frame optical emission lines from the H II regions of Lyman break galaxies at z = 3. By...
The Angular Clustering of Lyman-Break Galaxies at Redshift z=3 (1998)
Giavalisco, Mauro, Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Dickinson, Mark E., Pettini, Max, Kellogg, Melinda
We have measured the angular correlation function w(theta) for a sample of 871 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3. Fitting a power-law to a weighted average of w(theta) from 5 fields, we find the...
Small, Todd A., Sargent, Wallace L. W., Steidel, Charles C.
(abridged) Steidel & Sargent (1991a) found that the spectra of the components of the close quasar pairs Q1634+267A,B and Q2345+007A,B were in each case remarkably similar but that individual broad...
The Discovery of Primeval Galaxies and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation (1997)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Kellogg, . Melinda, Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro
We review the steps which have led to the discovery of a widespread population of objects at z = 3 with many of the characteristics which we expect for primeval galaxies, and emphasize in particular...
The Spectra of Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (1997)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Dickinson, Mark, Kellogg, Melinda, Giavalisco, Mauro, Adelberger, Kurt L.
We review the spectral properties of the population of star forming galaxies at z = 3 discovered using a colour selection technique which targets the Lyman discontinuity at 912 Angstroms. The UV...
Madau, Piero, Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark E., Giavalisco, Mauro, Steidel, Charles C., Fruchter, Andrew
The Lyman decrement associated with the cumulative effect of HI in QSO absorption systems along the line of sight provides a distinctive feature for identifying galaxies at z>2.5. The Hubble Deep...
On the Spatial and Kinematic Distributions of Mg II Absorbing Gas in =0.7 Galaxies (1996)
Churchill, Christopher W., Steidel, Charles C., Vogt, Steven S.
(Abridged) We present HIRES/Keck spectra having resolution 6 km/s of Mg II 2796 absorption profiles which arise in the gas associated with 15 identified galaxies over the redshift range 0.5 < z <...
Spectroscopy of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (1996)
Steidel, Charles C., Giavalisco, Mauro, Dickinson, Mark, Adelberger, Kurt L.
We report on the initial results of a spectroscopic investigation of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field which exhibit spectral discontinuities between the F450W and F300W passbands, indicative of the...
Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z>3 (1996)
Giavalisco, Mauro, Steidel, Charles C., Macchetto, F. Duccio
We present HST images of star-forming galaxies at redshifts z>3. These galaxies have been color selected for having a Lyman discontinuity in the otherwise flat (in f_\nu units) UV spectra of...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--California Institute of Technology, 1990.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--California Institute of Technology, 1990.
NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. The thesis consists primarily of 4 parts, which are separate but related insofar as...
Observing the epoch of galaxy formation
Significant observational progress in addressing the question of the origin and early evolution of galaxies has been made in the past few years, allowing for direct comparison of the epoch when most...
Galaxies and large scale structure at high redshifts
It is now straightforward to assemble large samples of very high redshift (z ∼ 3) field galaxies selected by their pronounced spectral discontinuity at the rest frame Lyman limit of hydrogen (at...
Observing the epoch of galaxy formation
Significant observational progress in addressing the question of the origin and early evolution of galaxies has been made in the past few years, allowing for direct comparison of the epoch when most...
Galaxies and large scale structure at high redshifts
It is now straightforward to assemble large samples of very high redshift (z ∼ 3) field galaxies selected by their pronounced spectral discontinuity at the rest frame Lyman limit of hydrogen (at...