Fakhri Zahedy

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Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding

• Snyder, B., Zahedy, F. (2023). What Happens to the Cool Gaseous Halos of Massive Galaxies in Dense Environments?. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 55 (2) 175--08.
• Snyder, B., Zahedy, F. (2022). Resolving the Role of Environment in Shaping the Circumgalactic Media Around Massive Galaxies. American Astronomical Society Meeting\# 240. 54 (6) 141--07.
• Zahedy, F. (2019). Dissecting the Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Elliptical Galaxies. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts\# 233. 233 137--02.

Journal Article

• Chen, M.C., Chen, H., Rauch, M., Qu, Z., Johnson, S.D., Schaye, J., Rudie, G.C., Jennifer, I., Li, H., Liu, Z.W., others. (2024). An Ensemble Study of Turbulence in Extended QSO Nebulae at z≈ 0.5--1. The Astrophysical Journal. 962 (1) 98. IOP Publishing.
• Solhaug, E., Chen, H., Chen, M.C., Zahedy, F., Gronke, M., Hamel-Bravo, M.J., Bayliss, M.B., Gladders, M.D., L\'opez, Sebasti\'an, Tejos, Nicol\'as. (2024). Deciphering spatially resolved Lyman-alpha profiles in reionization analogs: the Sunburst Arc at cosmic noon. Other.
• Johnson, S.D., Liu, Z.W., Jennifer, I., Li, H., Schaye, J., Greene, J.E., Cantalupo, S., Rudie, G.C., Qu, Z., Chen, H., others. (2024). Discovery of optically emitting circumgalactic nebulae around the majority of UV-luminous quasars at intermediate redshift. The Astrophysical Journal. 966 (2) 218. IOP Publishing.
• Deka, P., Gupta, N., Chen, H., Johnson, S., Noterdaeme, P., Combes, F., Boettcher, E., Balashev, S., Emig, K., J\'ozsa, GIG, others. (2024). MALS discovery of a rare H I 21 cm absorber at z~ 1.35: Origin of the absorbing gas in powerful active galactic nuclei. Other. 687 A50. EDP Sciences.
• Kumar, S., Chen, H., Qu, Z., Chen, M.C., Zahedy, F., Johnson, S.D., Muzahid, S., Cantalupo, S. (2024). On the Nature of the C IV-bearing Circumgalactic Medium at z\~ 1. Other.
• Chen, H., Zahedy, F. (2024). The Circumgalactic Medium. Other.
• Li, J.I., Johnson, S.D., Boettcher, E., Cantalupo, S., Chen, H., Chen, M.C., DePalma, D.R., Mishra, N., Petitjean, P., Qu, Z., others. (2024). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) VIII: Group Environment of the Most Luminous Quasars at $ z$\backslash$approx1$. Other.
• Mishra, N., Johnson, S.D., Rudie, G.C., Chen, H., Schaye, J., Qu, Z., Zahedy, F., Boettcher, E.T., Cantalupo, S., Chen, M.C., others. (2024). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS). IX. The Enriched Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Medium Around Star-forming Field Dwarf Galaxies Traced by O vi Absorption. The Astrophysical Journal. 976 (1) 149. IOP Publishing.
• Qu, Z., Chen, H., Johnson, S.D., Rudie, G.C., Zahedy, F., DePalma, D., Schaye, J., Boettcher, E.T., Cantalupo, S., Chen, M.C., others. (2024). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS). VII. On the Warm-hot Circumgalactic Medium Probed by O vi and Ne viii at 0.4≲ z≲ 0.7. The Astrophysical Journal. 968 (1) 8. IOP Publishing.
• Jennifer, I., Li, H., Johnson, S.D., Boettcher, E., Cantalupo, S., Chen, H., Chen, M.C., Depalma, D.R., Liu, Z.W., Mishra, N., others. (2024). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS). VIII. Group Environment of the Most Luminous Quasars at z≈ 1. The Astrophysical Journal. 965 (2) 143. IOP Publishing.
• Chen, M.C., Chen, H., Rauch, M., Qu, Z., Johnson, S.D., Schaye, J., Rudie, G.C., Li, J.I., Zahedy, F., Cantalupo, S., others. (2023). An ensemble study of turbulence in extended QSO nebulae at $ z$\backslash$approx0. 5$--1. Other.
• Chen, H., Johnson, S., Rudie, G.C., Boettcher, E., Cantalupo, S., Chen, M., Faucher-Giguere, C., Greene, J.E., Li, J.I., Lopez, S., others. (2023). CONTACT: Circumgalactic Observations of Nuv-shifted Transitions Across Cosmic Time. Other. 17517.
• Chen, M.C., Chen, H., Rauch, M., Qu, Z., Johnson, S.D., Li, J.I., Schaye, J., Rudie, G.C., Zahedy, F., Boettcher, E., others. (2023). Empirical constraints on the turbulence in QSO host nebulae from velocity structure function measurements. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518 (2) 2354--2372. Oxford University Press.
• Nishigaki, M., Ouchi, M., Nakajima, K., Ono, Y., Rauch, M., Isobe, Y., Harikane, Y., Narita, K., Zahedy, F., Xu, Y., others. (2023). EMPRESS. XI. SDSS and JWST Search for Local and z~ 4--5 Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies (EMPGs): Clustering and Chemical Properties of Local EMPGs. The Astrophysical Journal. 952 (1) 11. IOP Publishing.
• Qu, Z., Chen, H., Rudie, G.C., Johnson, S.D., Zahedy, F., DePalma, D., Boettcher, E., Cantalupo, S., Chen, M.C., Cooksey, K.L., others. (2023). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS)--VI. Connecting physical properties of the cool circumgalactic medium to galaxies at z≈ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524 (1) 512--528. Oxford University Press.
• Chen, H., Qu, Z., Rauch, M., Chen, M.C., Zahedy, F., Johnson, S.D., Schaye, J., Rudie, G.C., Boettcher, E., Cantalupo, S., others. (2023). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey: Empirical Characterization of Turbulence in the Cool Circumgalactic Medium. Other. 955 (1) L25. IOP Publishing.
• Huang, Y., Chen, H., Shectman, S., Johnson, S., Zahedy, F., Helsby, J., Gauthier, J., Thompson, I. (2023). VizieR Online Data Catalog: Census of circumgalactic MgII at redshift z=< 0.5 (Huang+, 2021). Other. J--MNRAS.
• Nishigaki, M., Ouchi, M., Nakajima, K., Ono, Y., Rauch, M., Isobe, Y., Harikane, Y., Narita, K., Zahedy, F., Xu, Y., Yajima, H., Fukushima, H., Hirai, Y., Kim, J.H., Inoue, S., Kusakabe, H., Lee, C., Nagao, T., Onodera, M. (2023). EMPRESS. XI. SDSS and JWST Search for Local and z ∼4–5 Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies (EMPGs): Clustering and Chemical Properties of Local EMPGs. The Astrophysical Journal. 952 (1) 11. American Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/accf14
• Zahedy, F., Rauch, M., Boettcher, E., Chen, H., Chen, M., Kulkarni, V.P., Nelson, D., Rudie, G.C. (2022). A High-Definition View of the Baryon Cycle in Massive Galaxies. Other. 17146.
• Boettcher, E., Gupta, N., Chen, H., Chen, M.C., J\'ozsa, Gyula IG, Rudie, G.C., Cantalupo, S., Johnson, S.D., Balashev, S., Combes, Fran\ccoise, others. (2022). Discovery of a Damped Ly$\alpha$ Absorber Originating in a Spectacular Interacting Dwarf Galaxy Pair at z= 0.026. Other. 926 (2) L33. IOP Publishing.
• Nakajima, K., Ouchi, M., Xu, Y., Rauch, M., Harikane, Y., Nishigaki, M., Isobe, Y., Kusakabe, H., Nagao, T., Ono, Y., others. (2022). EMPRESS. V. Metallicity diagnostics of galaxies over 12+ log (O/H)≃ 6.9--8.9 established by a local galaxy census: preparing for JWST spectroscopy. Other. 262 (1) 3. IOP Publishing.
• Xu, Y., Ouchi, M., Rauch, M., Nakajima, K., Harikane, Y., Sugahara, Y., Komiyama, Y., Kusakabe, H., Fujimoto, S., Isobe, Y., others. (2022). EMPRESS. VI. Outflows Investigated in Low-mass Galaxies with M∗= 104--107 M⊙: Weak Feedback in Low-mass Galaxies?. The Astrophysical Journal. 929 (2) 134. IOP Publishing.
• Qu, Z., Chen, H., Rudie, G.C., Zahedy, F., Johnson, S.D., Boettcher, E., Cantalupo, S., Chen, M.C., Cooksey, K.L., DePalma, D., others. (2022). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) V: on the thermodynamic properties of the cool circumgalactic medium at z≲ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516 (4) 4882--4897. Oxford University Press.
• Huang, Y., Chen, H., Shectman, S.A., Johnson, S.D., Zahedy, F., Helsby, J.E., Gauthier, Jean-Ren\'e, Thompson, I.B. (2021). A complete census of circumgalactic Mg II at redshift z≲ 0.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502 (4) 4743--4761. Oxford University Press.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Cooper, T.M., Boettcher, E., Johnson, S.D., Rudie, G.C., Chen, M.C., Cantalupo, S., Cooksey, K.L., Faucher-Gigu\`ere, Claude-Andr\'e, others. (2021). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS)--III. Physical properties and elemental abundances of Lyman-limit systems at z< 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506 (1) 877--902. Oxford University Press.
• Cooper, T.J., Rudie, G.C., Chen, H., Johnson, S.D., Zahedy, F., Chen, M.C., Boettcher, E., Walth, G.L., Cantalupo, S., Cooksey, K.L., others. (2021). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS)--IV. The complex multiphase circumgalactic medium as revealed by partial Lyman limit systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508 (3) 4359--4384. Oxford University Press.
• Boettcher, E., Chen, H., Zahedy, F., Cooper, T.J., Johnson, S.D., Rudie, G.C., Chen, M.C., Petitjean, P., Cantalupo, S., Cooksey, K.L., others. (2021). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS). II. Discovery of an H2-bearing DLA in the Vicinity of an Early-type Galaxy at z= 0.576. The Astrophysical Journal. 913 (1) 18. IOP Publishing.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Boettcher, E., Rauch, M., French, K.D., Zabludoff, A.I. (2020). Evidence for Late-time Feedback from the Discovery of Multiphase Gas in a Massive Elliptical at z= 0.4. Other. 904 (1) L10. IOP Publishing.
• Gaikwad, P., Rauch, M., Haehnelt, M.G., Puchwein, E., Bolton, J.S., Keating, L.C., Kulkarni, G., Ir\vsi\vc, Vid, Ba\~nados, Eduardo, Becker, G.D., others. (2020). Probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium at z> 5 with the transmission spikes in high-resolution Ly $\alpha$ forest spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494 (4) 5091--5109. Oxford University Press.
• Chen, H., Zahedy, F., Boettcher, E., Cooper, T.M., Johnson, S.D., Rudie, G.C., Chen, M.C., Walth, G.L., Cantalupo, S., Cooksey, K.L., others. (2020). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS)--I. Overview and the diverse environments of Lyman limit systems at z< 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497 (1) 498--520. Oxford University Press.
• Chen, H., Boettcher, E., Johnson, S.D., Zahedy, F., Rudie, G.C., Cooksey, K.L., Rauch, M., Mulchaey, J.S. (2019). A Giant Intragroup Nebula Hosting a Damped Lya Absorber at z= 0.313. Other.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Johnson, S.D., Pierce, R.M., Rauch, M., Huang, Y., Weiner, B.J., Gauthier, Jean-Ren\'e. (2019). Characterizing circumgalactic gas around massive ellipticals at z~ 0.4--II. Physical properties and elemental abundances. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484 (2) 2257--2280. Oxford University Press.
• Chen, H., Johnson, S.D., Straka, L.A., Zahedy, F., Schaye, J., Muzahid, S., Bouch\'e, Nicolas, Cantalupo, S., Marino, R.A., Wendt, M. (2019). Characterizing circumgalactic gas around massive ellipticals at z≈ 0.4--III. The galactic environment of a chemically pristine Lyman limit absorber. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484 (1) 431--441. Oxford University Press.
• Voit, G., Babul, A., Babyk, I., Bryan, G., Chen, H., Donahue, M., Fielding, D., Gaspari, M., Li, Y., McDonald, M., others. (2019). Circumgalactic Gas and the Precipitation Limit. Other.
• Connor, T., Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Cooper, T.J., Mulchaey, J.S., Vikhlinin, A. (2019). COS observations of the cosmic web: a search for the cooler components of a hot, X-ray identified filament. Other. 884 (1) L20. IOP Publishing.
• Rudie, G.C., Chen, H., Newman, A.B., Johnson, S.D., Simcoe, R.A., Boettcher, E.T., Cooper, T.J., Keres, D., Jones, T.A., Anges-Alcazar, D., others. (2019). Observing Galaxies and Dissecting their Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon. Other. 51 (3) 148.
• Zahedy, F., Rauch, M., Chen, H., Carswell, R.F., Stalder, B., Stark, A.A. (2019). Probing IGM accretion on to faint Ly$\alpha$ emitters at z~ 2.8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486 (1) 1392--1403. Oxford University Press.
• Chen, H., Johnson, S.D., Rudie, G.C., Simcoe, R.A., Boettcher, E., Faucher-Gigu\`ere, Claude-Andr\'e, Fielding, D., Hamden, E.T., Hummels, C.B., Mulchaey, J.S., others. (2019). Tracking the Baryon Cycle in Emission and in Absorption. Other. 51 (3) 329.
• Voit, G.M., Donahue, M., Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Werk, J., Bryan, G.L., O’Shea, B.W. (2019). Circumgalactic Pressure Profiles Indicate Precipitation-limited Atmospheres for M _* ∼ 10⁹–10^11.5 M _⊙. The Astrophysical Journal. 879 (1) L1. American Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab2766
• Chen, H., Zahedy, F., Johnson, S.D., Pierce, R.M., Huang, Y., Weiner, B.J., Gauthier, Jean-Ren\'e. (2018). Characterizing circumgalactic gas around massive ellipticals at z~ 0.4--I. Initial results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479 (2) 2547--2563. Oxford University Press.
• Chen, H., Johnson, S.D., Zahedy, F., Rauch, M., Mulchaey, J.S. (2017). Gauging Metallicity of Diffuse Gas under an Uncertain Ionizing Radiation Field. Other. 842 (2) L19. IOP Publishing.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Rauch, M., Zabludoff, A. (2017). HST Detection of Extended Neutral Hydrogen in a Massive Elliptical at z= 0.4. Other. 846 (2) L29. IOP Publishing.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Gauthier, Jean-Ren\'e, Rauch, M. (2017). On the radial profile of gas-phase Fe/$\alpha$ ratio around distant galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 466 (1) 1071--1081. Oxford University Press.
• Zahedy, F. (2017). Resolving the Multiphase ISM of an Elliptical Galaxy at z 0.4. Other. 15250.
• Chen, H., Hennawi, J., Johnson, S., Liang, C., Zahedy, F. (2016). Differentiating Gas Infall and Outflows with Resolved Star Formation Morphology. Other. 14667.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Rauch, M., Wilson, M.L., Zabludoff, A. (2016). Probing the cool interstellar and circumgalactic gas of three massive lensing galaxies at z= 0.4--0.7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 458 (3) 2423--2442. Oxford University Press.
• Zahedy, F., Chen, H., Rauch, M., Zabludoff, A. (2016). Resolving Fe-rich Neutral ISM in a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z 0.4. Other. 14751.
• Hunter, D.A., Zahedy, F., Bowsher, E.C., Wilcots, E.M., Kepley, A.A., Gaal, V. (2011). MAPPING THE EXTENDED H i DISTRIBUTION OF THREE DWARF GALAXIES. The Astronomical Journal. 142 (5) 173. IOP Publishing.

Ph.D. Thesis

• Zahedy, F. (2019). Multi-pronged Studies of Diffuse Halo Gas around Massive Quiescent Galaxies. The University of Chicago.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Sponsored Research

• Zahedy, F. (Principal), "A High-Definition View of the Baryon Cycle in Massive Galaxies," sponsored by AURA/Space Telescope Science Institute (NASA), Federal, $163863 Funded. (2024).