As the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, the internal secular evolution of galaxies becomes more important as the distance between galaxies generally increases. The largest galaxies in the local group provide an ideal laboratory due to their proximity to study the secular evolution processes driven by internal dynamical structures, such as a bar and spiral arms. I will review t...
As the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, the internal secular evolution of galaxies becomes more important as the distance between galaxies generally increases. The largest galaxies in the local group provide an ideal laboratory due to their proximity to study the secular evolution processes driven by internal dynamical structures, such as a bar and spiral arms. I will review t...
We present the results of a Damped Lyman α (DLA) system survey in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey Data release 1. The concordance DLA catalog combines the prediction from two fully automated techniques: the convolutional neural network (CNN) model and the Gaussian Process (GP) model. For each absorber, we obtain an accurate measurement of the redshift, the HI column dens...
Bent radio AGN, with their classic “C” shaped morphology, are a unique class of radio AGNs. These radio sources are often used as signposts of a dense, gaseous medium, such as the intracluster medium (ICM). However, bent sources are found inside and outside cluster environments, raising the question of how environment impacts bent radio AGN morphology. We analyzed new LOw-Frequency Array Two-...
The intracluster medium (ICM) is the largest reservoir of the hot baryons. The centers of the ICM often feature a sharp X-ray surface brightness peak. AGN mechanical feedback from the brightest cluster galaxy is likely preventing the hot ICM from the catastrophic cooling, although the exact feedback process remains poorly understood. A growing number of kiloparsec-scale multiphase filaments hav...