Publications

2016

Towards the statistical detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in intercluster filaments of the cosmic web

Tejos, Nicolas; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Crighton, Neil H. M.; Morris, Simon L.; Werk, Jessica K.; Theuns, Tom; Padilla, Nelson; Bielby, Rich M.; Finn, Charles W. 2016,MNRAS.455.2662T

The primordial abundance of deuterium: ionization correction

Cooke, Ryan; Pettini, Max 2016,MNRAS.455.1512C

The physical properties of z > 2 Lyman limit systems: new constraints for feedback and accretion models

Fumagalli, Michele; O'Meara, John M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier 2016,MNRAS.455.4100F

The central engine of GRB 130831A and the energy breakdown of a relativistic explosion

De Pasquale, M.; Oates, S. R.; Racusin, J. L.; Kann, D. A.; Zhang, B.; Pozanenko, A.; Volnova, A. A.; Trotter, A.; Frank, N.; Cucchiara, A.; Troja, E.; Sbarufatti, B.; Butler, N. R.; Schulze, S.; Cano, Z.; Page, M. J.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Gorosabel, J.; Lien, A.; Fox, O.; Littlejohns, O.; Bloom, J. S.; Prochaska, J. X.; de Diego, J. A.; Gonzalez, J.; Richer, M. G.; Román-Zúñiga, C.; Watson, A. M.; Gehrels, N.; Moseley, H.; Kutyrev, A.; Zane, S.; Hoette, V.; Russell, R. R.; Rumyantsev, V.; Klunko, E.; Burkhonov, O.; Breeveld, A. A.; Reichart, D. E.; Haislip, J. B. 2016,MNRAS.455.1027D

Highly ionized region surrounding SN Refsdal revealed by MUSE

Karman, W.; Grillo, C.; Balestra, I.; Rosati, P.; Caputi, K. I.; Di Teodoro, E.; Fraternali, F.; Gavazzi, R.; Mercurio, A.; Prochaska, J. X.; Rodney, S.; Treu, T. 2016,A%26A...585A..27K

2015

Cold gas and a Milky Way-type 2175-Å bump in a metal-rich and highly depleted absorption system

Ma, Jingzhe; Caucal, Paul; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Ge, Jian; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Ji, Tuo; Zhang, Shaohua; Rahmani, Hadi; Jiang, Peng; Schneider, Donald P.; Lundgren, Britt; Pâris, Isabelle 2015,MNRAS.454.1751M

Discovery of a Damped Lya Absorber at z = 3.3 along a galaxy sight-line in the SSA22 field

Mawatari, K.; Inoue, A. K.; Kousai, K.; Hayashino, T.; Cooke, R.; Prochaska, J. X.; Yamada, T.; Matsuda, Y. 2015,arXiv151204625M

MApping the Most Massive Overdensities Through Hydrogen (MAMMOTH) I: Methodology

Cai, Zheng; Fan, Xiaohui; Peirani, Sebastien; Bian, Fuyan; Frye, Brenda; McGreer, Ian; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Lau, Marie Wingyee; Tejos, Nicolas; Ho, Shirley; Schneider, Donald P. 2015,arXiv151206859C

Quasars Probing Quasars VIII. The Physical Properties of the Cool Circumgalactic medium Surrounding z ~ 2-3 Massive Galaxies

Lau, Marie Wingyee; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Hennawi, Joseph F. 2015,arXiv151006018L

A Deep Search For Faint Galaxies Associated With Very Low-redshift C IV Absorbers: III. A Galaxy Sample Complete to 0.01 L* and Evidence for Environmental Effects

Burchett, Joseph N.; Tripp, Todd M.; Bordoloi, Rongmon; Werk, Jessica K.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Tumlinson, Jason; Willmer, C. N. A.; O'Meara, John; Katz, Neal 2015,arXiv151200853B

The Keck + Magellan Survey for Lyman Limit Absorption. III. Sample Definition and Column Density Measurements

Prochaska, J. Xavier; O'Meara, John M.; Fumagalli, Michele; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Burles, Scott M. 2015,ApJS..221....2P

The evolution of neutral gas in damped Lyman $\alpha$ systems from the XQ-100 survey

Sánchez-Ramírez, R.; Ellison, S. L.; Prochaska, J. X.; Berg, T. A. M.; López, S.; D'Odorico, V.; Becker, G. D.; Christensen, L.; Cupani, G.; Denney, K. D.; Pâris, I.; Worseck, G.; Gorosabel, J. 2015,arXiv151105003S

A Deep Search For Faint Galaxies Associated With Very Low-redshift C IV Absorbers. II. Program Design, Absorption-line Measurements, and Absorber Statistics

Burchett, Joseph N.; Tripp, Todd M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Werk, Jessica K.; Tumlinson, Jason; O'Meara, John M.; Bordoloi, Rongmon; Katz, Neal; Willmer, C. N. A. 2015,ApJ...815...91B

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Helium Isotope Ratio

Cooke, Ryan J. 2015,ApJ...812L..12C

The First Data Release of the KODIAQ Survey

O'Meara, J. M.; Lehner, N.; Howk, J. C.; Prochaska, J. X.; Fox, A. J.; Swain, M. A.; Gelino, C. R.; Berriman, G. B.; Tran, H. 2015,AJ....150..111O

Constraining Very High Mass Population III Stars through He II Emission in Galaxy BDF-521 at z = 7.01

Cai, Zheng; Fan, Xiaohui; Jiang, Linhua; Davé, Romeel; Oh, S. Peng; Yang, Yujin; Zabludoff, Ann 2015,ApJ...799L..19C

Probing the Physical Conditions of Atomic Gas at High Redshift

Neeleman, Marcel; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Wolfe, Arthur M. 2015,ApJ...800....7N

The Most Metal-poor Damped Lyalpha Systems: An Insight into Dwarf Galaxies at High-redshift

Cooke, Ryan J.; Pettini, Max; Jorgenson, Regina A. 2015,ApJ...800...12C

Shadow of a Colossus: A z=2.45 Galaxy Protocluster Detected in 3D Ly-a Forest Tomographic Mapping of the COSMOS Field

Lee, Khee-Gan; Hennawi, Joseph F.; White, Martin; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Schlegel, David J.; Rich, R. Michael; Suzuki, Nao; Stark, Casey W.; Le Fevre, Olivier; Nugent, Peter E.; Salvato, Mara; Zamorani, Gianni 2015,arXiv150902833L

A giant protogalactic disk linked to the cosmic web

Martin, D. Christopher; Matuszewski, Mateusz; Morrissey, Patrick; Neill, James D.; Moore, Anna; Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Chang, Daphne 2015,Natur.524..192M

Deep He II and C IV Spectroscopy of a Giant Lyalpha Nebula: Dense Compact Gas Clumps in the Circumgalactic Medium of a z ~ 2 Quasar

Arrigoni Battaia, Fabrizio; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Cantalupo, Sebastiano 2015,ApJ...809..163A

Dissecting the Gaseous Halos of z ˜ Damped Lyalpha Systems with Close Quasar Pairs

Rubin, Kate H. R.; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Simcoe, Robert A.; Myers, Adam; Lau, Marie Wingyee 2015,ApJ...808...38R

The first ultraviolet quasar-stacked spectrum at z ~= 2.4 from WFC3

Lusso, E.; Worseck, G.; Hennawi, J. F.; Prochaska, J. X.; Vignali, C.; Stern, J.; O'Meara, J. M. 2015,MNRAS.449.4204L

Quasar quartet embedded in giant nebula reveals rare massive structure in distant universe

Hennawi, Joseph F.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Arrigoni-Battaia, Fabrizio 2015,Sci...348..779H

Unveiling the Secrets of Metallicity and Massive Star Formation Using DLAs along Gamma-Ray Bursts

Cucchiara, A.; Fumagalli, M.; Rafelski, M.; Kocevski, D.; Prochaska, J. X.; Cooke, R. J.; Becker, G. D. 2015,ApJ...804...51C

A deep narrowband imaging search for C IV and He II emission from Lyalpha blobs.

Battaia, F. A.; Yang, Y.; Hennawi, J. F.; Prochaska, J. X.; Matsuda, Y.; Yamada, T.; Hayashino, T. 2015,ApJ...804...26B

A Deep Narrowband Imaging Search for C IV and He II Emission from Lyalpha Blobs

Arrigoni Battaia, Fabrizio; Yang, Yujin; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Matsuda, Yuichi; Yamada, Toru; Hayashino, Tomoki 2015,ApJ...804...26A

A search for Halpha emission in high-metallicity damped Lyman alpha systems at z ˜ 2.4

Wang, Wei-Hao; Kanekar, Nissim; Prochaska, J. Xavier 2015,MNRAS.448.2832W

Baryon Cycling in the Low-Redshift Circumgalactic Medium: A Comparison of Simulations to the COS-Halos Survey

Ford, Amanda Brady; Werk, Jessica K.; Dave, Romeel; Tumlinson, Jason; Bordoloi, Rongmon; Katz, Neal; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Oppenheimer, Benjamin D.; Peeples, Molly S.; Prochaska, Jason X.; Weinberg, David H. 2015,arXiv150302084F

The Most Metal-rich Damped Lyalpha Systems at z ≳ 1.5 I: The Data

Berg, Trystyn A. M.; Neeleman, Marcel; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Ellison, Sara L.; Wolfe, Arthur M. 2015,PASP..127..167B

Directly imaging damped Ly alpha galaxies at z > 2 - III. The star formation rates of neutral gas reservoirs at z ˜ 2.7

Fumagalli, Michele; O'Meara, John M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Rafelski, Marc; Kanekar, Nissim 2015,MNRAS.446.3178F

2014

Directly imaging damped Lyalpha galaxies at z > 2 - II. Imaging and spectroscopic observations of 32 quasar fields

Fumagalli, Michele; O'Meara, John M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Kanekar, Nissim; Wolfe, Arthur M. 2014,MNRAS.444.1282F

Constraints on the gas masses of low-z damped Lyman alpha systems

Mazumdar, Parichay; Kanekar, Nissim; Prochaska, J. Xavier 2014,MNRAS.443L..29M

Quasars Probing Quasars. VII. The Pinnacle of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium Surrounds Massive z ~ 2 Galaxies

Prochaska, J. Xavier; Lau, Marie Wingyee; Hennawi, Joseph F. 2014,ApJ...796..140P

A Glimpse at Quasar Host Galaxy Far-UV Emission Using Damped Lyalpha's as Natural Coronagraphs

Cai, Zheng; Fan, Xiaohui; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Wang, Ran; McGreer, Ian; Carithers, Bill; Bian, Fuyan; Miralda-Escudé, Jordi; Finley, Hayley; Pâris, Isabelle; Schneider, Donald P.; Zakamska, Nadia L.; Ge, Jian; Petitjean, Patrick; Slosar, Anze 2014,ApJ...793..139C

Galactic and Circumgalactic O VI and its Impact on the Cosmological Metal and Baryon Budgets at 2 < z <~ 3.5

Lehner, N.; O'Meara, J. M.; Fox, A. J.; Howk, J. C.; Prochaska, J. X.; Burns, V.; Armstrong, A. A. 2014,ApJ...788..119L

Early and Extended Helium Reionization Over More Than 600 Million Years of Cosmic Time

Worseck, Gábor; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Hennawi, Joseph F.; McQuinn, Matthew 2014,arXiv1405.7405W

Precision Measures of the Primordial Abundance of Deuterium

Cooke, Ryan J.; Pettini, Max; Jorgenson, Regina A.; Murphy, Michael T.; Steidel, Charles C. 2014,ApJ...781...31C

A cosmic web filament revealed in Lyman-alpha emission around a luminous high-redshift quasar

Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Arrigoni-Battaia, Fabrizio; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Madau, Piero 2014,Natur.506...63C

AGN-driven helium reionization and the incidence of extended He III regions at redshift z > 3

Compostella, Michele; Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Porciani, Cristiano 2014,arXiv1407.1316C

No excess of bright galaxies around the redshift 7.1 quasar ULAS J1120+0641

Simpson, Chris; Mortlock, Daniel; Warren, Stephen; Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Hewett, Paul; McLure, Ross; McMahon, Richard; Venemans, Bram 2014,MNRAS.442.3454S

Galaxy formation with local photoionization feedback - I. Methods

Kannan, R.; Stinson, G. S.; Macciò, A. V.; Hennawi, J. F.; Woods, R.; Wadsley, J.; Shen, S.; Robitaille, T.; Cantalupo, S.; Quinn, T. R.; Christensen, C. 2014,MNRAS.437.2882K

The spin temperature of high-redshift damped Lyman alpha systems

Kanekar, N.; Prochaska, J. X.; Smette, A.; Ellison, S. L.; Ryan-Weber, E. V.; Momjian, E.; Briggs, F. H.; Lane, W. M.; Chengalur, J. N.; Delafosse, T.; Grave, J.; Jacobsen, D.; de Bruyn, A. G. 2014,MNRAS.438.2131K

Towards a unified description of the intergalactic medium at redshift z ≈ 2.5

Prochaska, J. Xavier; Madau, Piero; O'Meara, John M.; Fumagalli, Michele 2014,MNRAS.438..476P

The Rapid Decline in Metallicity of Damped Lyalpha Systems at z ~ 5

Rafelski, Marc; Neeleman, Marcel; Fumagalli, Michele; Wolfe, Arthur M.; Prochaska, J. Xavier 2014,ApJ...782L..29R

Confronting Simulations of Optically Thick Gas in Massive Halos with Observations at z = 2-3

Fumagalli, Michele; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Kasen, Daniel; Dekel, Avishai; Ceverino, Daniel; Primack, Joel 2014,ApJ...780...74F

From Starburst to Quiescence: Testing Active Galactic Nucleus feedback in Rapidly Quenching Post-starburst Galaxies

Yesuf, Hassen M.; Faber, S. M.; Trump, Jonathan R.; Koo, David C.; Fang, Jerome J.; Liu, F. S.; Wild, Vivienne; Hayward, Christopher C. 2014,ApJ...792...84Y

The COS-Halos Survey: Physical Conditions and Baryonic Mass in the Low-redshift Circumgalactic Medium

Werk, Jessica K.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Tumlinson, Jason; Peeples, Molly S.; Tripp, Todd M.; Fox, Andrew J.; Lehner, Nicolas; Thom, Christopher; O'Meara, John M.; Ford, Amanda Brady; Bordoloi, Rongmon; Katz, Neal; Tejos, Nicolas; Oppenheimer, Benjamin D.; Davé, Romeel; Weinberg, David H. 2014,ApJ...792....8W

Precision Measures of the Primordial Abundance of Deuterium

Cooke, Ryan J.; Pettini, Max; Jorgenson, Regina A.; Murphy, Michael T.; Steidel, Charles C. 2014,ApJ...781...31C