KBSS-InCLOSE II: First Detailed Insights on the Inner CGM of Low-Mass z about2.3 Galaxies

arXiv:2609.30834 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Code: https://github.com/Keck-DataReductionPipelines/KCWI

Project page: https://keck-datareductionpipelines.github.io/MosfireDRP

Terminology

• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Metallicity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Keck Baryonic Structure Survey — 2× in this paper
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Lyman Alpha Emitting — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• MUSEQuBES: Investigating the Physical and Chemical Properties of Circumgalactic Gas Around Ly$\alpha$ Emitters at $z \approx 3.3$
• The Star-forming Main Sequence and Bursty Star-formation Histories at z>1.4 in JADES and AURORA
• VoigtFit: A Python package for Voigt profile fitting

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