The KAGG survey: KCWI Analysis of Gas around Galaxies at z 3-5

arXiv:2609.25221 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: Accepted for publication at ApJ. Main text is composed of 23 pages and 14 figures

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea982

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 74× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anti-correlation — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Keck Cosmic Web Imager — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• The Qz5 Survey (II): Metallicity Evolution of Damped Ly{\alpha} Systems Out to z$\sim$5

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