Jessica Werk

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Jessica Werk is affiliated with the following schools: California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Washington, University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Jessica K. Werk is an American astronomer and an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Her work includes the study of intergalactic and interstellar media. Werk was a Hubble fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2013 to 2016, and won the $65,000 Sloan Fellowship in 2018. Her research focuses on the role of gas in the formation and evolution of galaxies and the intergalactic medium, primarily through spectroscopic observations in the optical and ultraviolet.

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The Circumgalactic Medium (2017) (399)
The Large, Oxygen-Rich Halos of Star-Forming Galaxies Are a Major Reservoir of Galactic Metals (2011) (387)
THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND BARYONIC MASS IN THE LOW-REDSHIFT CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM (2014) (349)
THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: AN EMPIRICAL DESCRIPTION OF METAL-LINE ABSORPTION IN THE LOW-REDSHIFT CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM (2012) (236)
THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: RATIONALE, DESIGN, AND A CENSUS OF CIRCUMGALACTIC NEUTRAL HYDROGEN (2013) (233)
A BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING OF METALS AT z ∼ 0: RESULTS FROM THE COS-HALOS SURVEY (2013) (207)
EVIDENCE FOR A NONUNIFORM INITIAL MASS FUNCTION IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE (2009) (206)
The COS-Halos Survey: Metallicities in the Low-redshift Circumgalactic Medium (2017) (162)
THE BIMODAL METALLICITY DISTRIBUTION OF THE COOL CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM AT z ≲ 1 (2013) (152)
THE COS-DWARFS SURVEY: THE CARBON RESERVOIR AROUND SUB-L* GALAXIES (2014) (151)
The Hidden Mass and Large Spatial Extent of a Post-Starburst Galaxy Outflow (2011) (127)
The Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies. III. Diffuse, Warm Ionized Medium and Escape of Ionizing Radiation (2007) (117)
NOT DEAD YET: COOL CIRCUMGALACTIC GAS IN THE HALOS OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES (2012) (111)
THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: ORIGINS OF THE HIGHLY IONIZED CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES (2016) (110)
THE FIRST OBSERVATIONS OF LOW-REDSHIFT DAMPED Lyα SYSTEMS WITH THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH: CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES AND AFFILIATED GALAXIES (2011) (106)
The Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies. I. Description and Initial Results (2006) (91)
EVIDENCE FOR COLD ACCRETION: PRIMITIVE GAS FLOWING ONTO A GALAXY AT z ∼ 0.274 (2011) (88)
The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium (2018) (88)
The survival of gas clouds in the circumgalactic medium of Milky Way-like galaxies (2016) (86)
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report (2020) (80)
A UNIVERSAL DENSITY STRUCTURE FOR CIRCUMGALACTIC GAS (2016) (79)
METAL TRANSPORT TO THE GASEOUS OUTSKIRTS OF GALAXIES (2011) (79)
THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: KECK LRIS AND MAGELLAN MagE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY (2011) (72)
QSO ABSORPTION SYSTEMS DETECTED IN Ne viii: HIGH-METALLICITY CLOUDS WITH A LARGE EFFECTIVE CROSS SECTION (2012) (68)
MULTIPHASE GAS IN GALAXY HALOS: THE O vi LYMAN-LIMIT SYSTEM TOWARD J1009+0713 (2011) (65)
The Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies. II. The Star Formation Rate Density of the Local Universe (2006) (63)
Baryon cycling in the low-redshift circumgalactic medium: a comparison of simulations to the COS-Halos survey (2015) (62)
On the OVI abundance in the circumgalactic medium of low-redshift galaxies (2015) (55)
Implications of the Large O vi Columns around Low-redshift L∗ Galaxies (2017) (54)
OUTLYING H ii REGIONS IN H i-SELECTED GALAXIES (2009) (54)
A DEEP SEARCH FOR FAINT GALAXIES ASSOCIATED WITH VERY LOW REDSHIFT C iv ABSORBERS. III. THE MASS- AND ENVIRONMENT-DEPENDENT CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM (2015) (53)
THE SPARSEST CLUSTERS WITH O STARS (2010) (47)
The multiphase circumgalactic medium traced by low metal ions in EAGLE zoom simulations (2017) (46)
MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS OF A0620-00 IN QUIESCENCE (2011) (46)
THE METAL-ENRICHED OUTER DISK OF NGC 2915 (2010) (42)
THE GAS−GALAXY CONNECTION AT zabs = 0.35: O vi AND H i ABSORPTION TOWARD J 0943+0531 (2011) (38)
Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies in the Local Universe (2004) (36)
The COS Absorption Survey of Baryon Harbors (CASBaH): Warm–Hot Circumgalactic Gas Reservoirs Traced by Ne viii Absorption (2018) (36)
Feedback from supermassive black holes transforms centrals into passive galaxies by ejecting circumgalactic gas (2019) (32)
Isolated OB Associations in Stripped H I Gas Clouds (2008) (30)
GEMINI SPECTROSCOPY OF THE SHORT-HARD GAMMA-RAY BURST GRB 130603B AFTERGLOW AND HOST GALAXY (2013) (30)
HST/COS OBSERVATIONS OF IONIZED GAS ACCRETION AT THE DISK–HALO INTERFACE OF M33 (2016) (28)
Project AMIGA: The Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda (2020) (28)
Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. IV. KPNO and WIYN Observations (2005) (28)
THE HIGH-ION CONTENT AND KINEMATICS OF LOW-REDSHIFT LYMAN LIMIT SYSTEMS (2013) (27)
REVERBERATION MAPPING OF THE KEPLER FIELD AGN KA1858+4850 (2014) (26)
Towards the statistical detection of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in intercluster filaments of the cosmic web (2015) (26)
A DEEP SEARCH FOR FAINT GALAXIES ASSOCIATED WITH VERY LOW-REDSHIFT C iv ABSORBERS. II. PROGRAM DESIGN, ABSORPTION-LINE MEASUREMENTS, AND ABSORBER STATISTICS (2015) (23)
NGC 922 – a new drop-through ring galaxy★ (2006) (21)
The initial mass function and star formation law in the outer disc of NGC 2915 (2014) (21)
The Impact of Cosmic Rays on Thermal Instability in the Circumgalactic Medium (2020) (20)
A DEEP SEARCH FOR FAINT GALAXIES ASSOCIATED WITH VERY LOW-REDSHIFT C iv ABSORBERS: A CASE WITH COLD-ACCRETION CHARACTERISTICS (2013) (20)
METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Program. I. Overview and Initial Results (2019) (18)
Revealing the Milky Way’s Hidden Circumgalactic Medium with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Quasar Database for Galactic Absorption Lines (2017) (18)
Circumgalactic Pressure Profiles Indicate Precipitation-limited Atmospheres for M* ∼ 109–1011.5 M⊙ (2019) (17)
Discovery of a transparent sightline at ρ ≲ 20 kpc from an interacting pair of galaxies (2013) (16)
Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. II. Hobby-Eberly Telescope Observations (2004) (16)
Spatially Resolved Metal Loss from M31 (2018) (16)
The Mass Inflow and Outflow Rates of the Milky Way (2019) (15)
Not So Heavy Metals: Black Hole Feedback Enriches the Circumgalactic Medium (2018) (14)
The Nature of Ionized Gas in the Milky Way Galactic Fountain (2019) (13)
On the CGM Fundamental Plane: The Halo Mass Dependency of Circumgalactic H i (2017) (13)
The Sources of Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Backgrounds (2017) (13)
The COS Absorption Survey of Baryon Harbors: The Galaxy Database and Cross-correlation Analysis of O vi Systems (2019) (13)
Voyage through the hidden physics of the cosmic web (2019) (12)
The COS Absorption Survey of Baryon Harbors: unveiling the physical conditions of circumgalactic gas through multiphase Bayesian ionization modelling (2020) (11)
Galactic Gas Flows from Halo to Disk: Tomography and Kinematics at the Milky Way’s Disk–Halo Interface (2019) (11)
Probing Feedback in Galaxy Formation with Millimeter-wave Observations (2019) (11)
CGM2 I: The Extent of the Circumgalactic Medium Traced by Neutral Hydrogen (2020) (10)
On the Effect of Environment on Line Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium (2019) (10)
METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Program. II. Variations of Interstellar Depletions and Dust-to-gas Ratio within the LMC (2021) (10)
Ultraviolet signatures of the multiphase intracluster and circumgalactic media in the romulusc simulation (2019) (9)
Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. III. A Second Set of MDM Observations (2005) (9)
Choirs, H I galaxy groups: catalogue and detection of star-forming dwarf group members (2013) (9)
The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey. V. Hα-selected Survey List 3 (2005) (9)
Near-identical star formation rate densities from Hα and FUVat redshift zero (2018) (8)
Emission Line Ratios for the Circumgalactic Medium and the “Bimodal” Nature of Galaxies (2018) (8)
A VLT/MUSE galaxy survey towards QSO Q1410: looking for a WHIM traced by BLAs in inter-cluster filaments (2018) (7)
The neutral hydrogen properties of galaxies in gas-rich groups (2018) (6)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). V. The Virial Temperature Does Not Describe Gas in a Virialized Galaxy Halo (2021) (5)
The QuaStar Survey: Detecting Hidden Low-velocity Gas in the Milky Way’s Circumgalactic Medium (2020) (5)
Tentative detection of the circumgalactic medium of the isolated low-mass dwarf galaxy WLM (2019) (4)
Imprint of Drivers of Galaxy Formation in the Circumgalactic Medium. (2019) (4)
QSO ABSORPTION SYSTEMS DETECTED IN NE VIII: EVIDENCE FOR HIGH-METALLICITY, MULTIPHASE GAS FAR FROM GALAXIES 1 (2012) (3)
Line Emission Mapper (LEM): Probing the physics of cosmic ecosystems (2022) (3)
An Empirical Determination of the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Mass Cooling Rate and Feedback Mass Loading Factor on Galactic Stellar Mass (2021) (2)
One–Two Quench: A Double Minor Merger Scenario (2020) (2)
A Gaseous Group with Unusual Remote Star Formation (2011) (2)
The Panchromatic Circumgalactic Medium. (2019) (2)
The Discovery and Origin of a Very High-velocity Cloud Toward M33 (2017) (2)
Observing the Effects of Galaxy Interactions on the Circumgalactic Medium (2020) (2)
Circumgalactic Gas and the Precipitation Limit. (2019) (2)
METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Program. III. Interstellar Depletions, Dust-to-Metal, and Dust-to-Gas Ratios versus Metallicity (2022) (2)
Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of the Lowest-mass Galaxies: A Case Study of IC 1613 (2020) (2)
Understanding the circumgalactic medium is critical for understanding galaxy evolution (2019) (1)
The Initial Mass Function and Star Formation Law in The Outer Disk of NGC2915 (2015) (1)
METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble program. II. Variations of interstellar depletions and dust-to-gas ratio within the LMC. (2021) (1)
METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Program. IV. Calibration of Dust Depletions versus Abundance Ratios in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds and Application to Damped Lyα Systems (2022) (1)
The CGM2 Survey: Circumgalactic O vi from Dwarf to Massive Star-forming Galaxies (2021) (1)
THE FIRST OBSERVATIONS OF LOW-REDSHIFT DAMPED Lyα SYSTEMS WITH THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH (2011) (1)
Emission Line Mapping of the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Galaxies (2019) (1)
H$\alpha$ Emission and the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Cool Gas Fraction on Halo Mass (2019) (1)
HST ACS/HRC imaging of the intergalactic HII regions in NGC 1533 (2006) (1)
Hα Emission and the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Cool Gas Fraction on Halo Mass (2020) (1)
Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium in Emission (2022) (0)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Photometry/spectroscopic measurements for KA1858+4850 (Pei+, 2014) (2017) (0)
C IV In Our Cosmic Backyard: Which Neighbor Put It There? (2014) (0)
Circumgalactic Matter Matters in Galaxy Evolution (2018) (0)
Tracing Gas Flows from Halo to Disk: Observing the Milky Way's Galactic Fountain (2017) (0)
The Distribution of Oxygen in the Magellanic Clouds (2014) (0)
A Comprehensive Investigation of Metals in the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies (2023) (0)
The Impact of Cosmic Rays on the Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium (2021) (0)
The Physical Nature of the z 0.274 Lyman-Limit System toward PKS1630-377 (2011) (0)
Discovery of a Bimodal Metallicity Distribution for the Circumgalactic Medium about z<1 Galaxies (2013) (0)
Intergalactic HII Regions: Probing a Non-Standard Mode of Star Formation (2005) (0)
The CGM around Dwarf Galaxies (2014) (0)
The CGM$^2$ Survey: Quenching and the Transformation of the Circumgalactic Medium (2022) (0)
A sample of \ion{H}{2} regions in the far outskirts of host SINGG galaxies (2005) (0)
Title Reverberation mapping of the kepler field agn KA 1858 + 4850 (2014) (0)
A Budget and Accounting of Metals at z̃0: Comparisons to Results from the COS-Halos Survey (2013) (0)
The Bimodal Absorption System Imaging Campaign (BASIC). I. A Dual Population of Low-metallicity Absorbers at z < 1 (2022) (0)
Large Reservoirs Of Metal-Poor Gas Around z<1 Galaxies (2014) (0)
The Circumgalactic Medium at the Lowest Mass End (2020) (0)
A Deep Search For Faint Galaxies Associated With Very Low-redshift C IV Absorbers: III. A Galaxy Sample Complete to 0.01 L* and Evidence for Environmental Effects (2015) (0)
CASBaH: the Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium During the Decline of Cosmic Star Formation (2018) (0)
CGM$^2$ $+$ CASBaH: The Mass Dependence of H~I Ly$\alpha$-Galaxy Clustering and the Extent of the CGM (2023) (0)
Revealing the Milky Way's Hidden Circumgalactic Medium with the COS Quasar Database for Galactic Absorption Lines (2017) (0)
A VLT/MUSE galaxy survey towards QSO Q1410: looking for a WHIM traced by BLAs in inter-cluster ﬁlaments (cid:2) (2018) (0)
Constraining the lifecycle of dust and metals in neutral gas from the UV to radio (2020) (0)
Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VI. The Circumgalactic Medium of L ∗ Galaxies Is Supported in an Emergent, Nonhydrostatic Equilibrium (2022) (0)
Erratum: Choirs, HI galaxy groups: Catalogue and detection of star-forming dwarf group members (vol 433, pg 543, 2013) (2017) (0)
The cool circumgalactic medium of low-redshift star-forming galaxies: I -- Empirical model and mean properties (2023) (0)
An Isolated HII Region near ESO 481-G017 (2009) (0)
What Observations with HST/COS Reveal About the Physical State of the CGM (2015) (0)
Metals and molecules in HI-selected galaxies (2011) (0)
VLT / MUSE galaxy survey towards Q 1410 1 A VLT / MUSE galaxy survey towards QSO Q 1410 : looking for a WHIM traced by BLAs in inter-cluster filaments ? (2018) (0)
Using UV-bright Milky Way Halo Stars to Probe Star-Formation Driven Winds as a Function of Disk Scale Height (2015) (0)
The Significant Contribution of Photo-ionized Circumgalactic Gas to the Total Baryonic Budget of L* Galaxies (2014) (0)
On the Kinematics of Cold, Metal-enriched Galactic Fountain Flows in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies (2022) (0)
New Constraints On Gas Properties From The Fuv: Oiv + Ovi Absorbers (2011) (0)
The Growth of Gas-rich Galaxies: Examining the Frequency, Demographics and Nature of Outlying HII Regions (2010) (0)
OB Stars in Stochastic Regimes (2010) (0)
SDSS DR17: The Cosmic Slime Value Added Catalog (2023) (0)
Deposited in DRO : 18 April 2018 Version of attached le : Accepted Version Peer-review status of attached (2018) (0)
The outermost HII regions of nearby galaxies (2010) (0)

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