{"id":57,"date":"2014-10-07T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katerubinastro.wordpress.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2014-10-07T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:33:22","slug":"the-detection-of-cool-metal-enriched-gas-inflow-onto-z0-5-star-forming-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/research\/the-detection-of-cool-metal-enriched-gas-inflow-onto-z0-5-star-forming-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Detection of Cool, Metal-Enriched Gas Inflow onto z~0.5 Star-Forming Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although the accretion of gas onto galaxies is thought to play a key role in their formation and evolution, studies of cool gas kinematics in distant, star-forming galaxies have mostly reported the ubiquity of cool gas\u00a0outflows<\/span>.\u00a0 In this work, we identify six star-forming galaxies drawn from a sample of ~100 objects (at 0.3 < z < 1.4) which show direct evidence for cool gas\u00a0inflow<\/span>.\u00a0 We use spectroscopy of low-ionization metal absorption lines (MgII and FeII; see panels above) to measure gas kinematics, and identify inflows from the positive velocities of the metal absorption with respect to the host galaxies\u2019 systemic velocities.\u00a0 The Figure shows Hubble Space Telescope images (Giavalisco et al. 2004<\/a>) of four of these inflow galaxies, along with their absorption-line spectra.\u00a0 Please click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for the published article, and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to see our press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Although the accretion of gas onto galaxies is thought to play a key role in their formation and evolution, studies of cool gas kinematics in distant, star-forming galaxies have mostly reported the ubiquity of cool gas\u00a0outflows.\u00a0 In this work, we identify six star-forming galaxies drawn from a sample of ~100 objects (at 0.3 < […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krubin.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}