Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium: Connecting Galaxies to their Environment

dc.contributor.advisor	Werk, Jessica
dc.contributor.author	Wilde, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-23T20:42:33Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-23T20:42:33Z
dc.date.issued	2022-09-23
dc.date.submitted	2022
dc.description	Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2022
dc.description.abstract	The work presented in this dissertation provides the groundwork for understanding key unresolved questions in the study of galaxy evolution: the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and the role of environment. I present a new survey that has the power to drastically improve our understanding of the CGM and use it to estimate the size of the CGM as a function of galactic mass. In addition, a novel method to reconstruct the cosmic web using \textit{Physarum polycephalum} slime mold is presented and applied to the SDSS surveys. This cosmic web reconstruction was released publicly with SDSS DR17 and will allow exciting connections between galaxies and their environments to be illuminated, to distances greater than other previous catalogs.
dc.embargo.terms	Open Access
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.other	Wilde_washington_0250E_24808.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1773/49255
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.subject	CGM
dc.subject	Circumgalactic Medium
dc.subject	Data Science
dc.subject	Galaxy Evolution
dc.subject	Slime Mold
dc.subject	Astrophysics
dc.subject.other	Astronomy
dc.title	Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium: Connecting Galaxies to their Environment
dc.type	Thesis

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