Werk SQuAD

Diagnosing the Circumgalactic Medium with Quasar Sightlines

During my undergraduate at the University of Washington, I was a member of Prof. Jessica Werk’s Student Quasar Absorption Diagnosticians (Werk SQuAD), researching the CGM2 survey, which seeks to constrain the cosmic baryon cycle of nearby galaxies. As a Werk SQuAD member, I classified thousands of absorption features from dozens of quasars observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cosmic Origin Spectrograph and contributed to HST proposals (Peek, 2018).

References

2018

  1. QuaStar: The first unobscured view of the Milky Way’s Circumgalactic Medium
    Joshua Peek
    Nov 2018