MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) XIV: Background-Galaxy Absorption Reveals Kiloparsec-Scale Structure in the Cool Circumgalactic Medium

arXiv:2606.11089 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-06-09 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-09

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Coherence Length — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Entrainment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• The Prime Focus Spectrograph Galaxy Evolution Survey
• The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper
• First statistical constraints on galactic scale outflows properties traced by their extended Mg II emission with MUSE

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