Project Overview

This project focuses on the dynamics of gas flows in galaxies, including accretion and ejection processes using background quasars.

Details about the research, methods, and results can be found on the website.

Publications

The MEGAFLOW survey publications (full list available in the ADS library):

• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW): XIII. Cool gas traced by Mg II around isolated galaxies - Cherrey et al. (2025)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW): XII. Rationale and design of a Mg II survey of the cool circum-galactic medium with MUSE and UVES: The MEGAFLOW Survey - Bouché et al. (2025)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW). XI. Scaling relations between outflows and host galaxy properties - Schroetter et al. (2024)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) X. The cool gas and covering fraction of Mg II in galaxy groups - Cherrey et al. (2024)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) IX. The impact of gas flows on the relations between the mass, star formation rate, and metallicity of galaxies - Langan et al. (2023)
• A Comparison of Circumgalactic Mg II Absorption between the TNG50 Simulation and the MEGAFLOW Survey - DeFelippis et al. (2021)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VIII. Discovery of a MgII emission halo probed by a quasar sightline - Zabl et al. (2021)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VI. A study of C IV and Mg II absorbing gas surrounding [O II] emitting galaxies - Schroetter et al. (2021)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind V. The dust/metallicity-anisotropy of the circum-galactic medium - Wendt et al. (2021)
• MusE GAs FLOw and wind (MEGAFLOW) VII. A NOEMA pilot program to probe molecular gas in galaxies with measured circumgalactic gas flows - Freundlich et al. (2021)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) IV. A two sightline tomography of a galactic wind - Zabl et al. (2020)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) - III. Galactic wind properties using background quasars - Schroetter et al. (2019)
• MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) II. A study of gas accretion around z ≈ 1 star-forming galaxies with background quasars - Zabl et al. (2019)
• Muse Gas Flow and Wind (MEGAFLOW). I. First MUSE Results on Background Quasars - Schroetter et al. (2016)