Erika Hamden

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• Armus, L., Megeath, S. T., Corrales, L., Marengo, M., Kirkpatrick, A., Smith, J. D., Meyer, M., Gezari, S., Kraft, R. P., McCandliss, S., Tuttle, S., Elvis, M., Bentz, M., Binder, B., Civano, F., Dragomir, D., Espaillat, C., Finkelstein, S., Fox, D. B., , Greenhouse, M., et al. (2021). Great Observatories: The Past and Future of Panchromatic Astrophysic. SAG-10.
• Choi, H., Trump, I., Feng, Y., Kang, H., Berkson, J., Hamden, E., & Kim., D. (2021). Long-slit cross-dispersion spectroscopy for Hyperion UV space telescope. JATIS.
• Chung, H., Vargas, C. J., Hamden, E., McMahon, T., Gonzales, K., Khan, A. R., Agarwal, S., Bailey, H., Behroozi, P., Brendel, T., Choi, H., Connors, T., Corlies, L., Corliss, J., Dettmar, R., Dolana, D., Douglas, E. S., Guzman, J., Hamara, D., , Harris, W., et al. (2021). Aspera: the UV SmallSat telescope to detect and map the warm-hot gas phase in nearby galaxy halos. Proceedings of SPIE.
• Hamden, E. (2021). Revisiting FUSE O VI Emission in Galaxy Halos. ApJ.
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  A significant fraction of baryons in galaxies are in the form of diffuse gasof the circumgalactic medium (CGM). One critical component of the multi-phasesof CGM, the so-called "coronal" warm-hot phase gas ($\rm 10^{5}-10^{6}$ K)traced by O VI 1031.93, 1037.62 \r{A} resonance lines, has rarely been detectedin emission from galaxy halos other than Milky Way. Here we report fouradditional detections of O VI emission gas in the halos of nearby edge-ongalaxies, NGC 4631 and NGC 891, using archival Far Ultraviolet SpectroscopicExplorer data and an updated data pipeline. We find the most intense O VIemission to be from fields forming a vertical line near the center of NGC 4631,despite the close proximity to the disk of two other fields. The detected O VIemission surface brightness are about 1.1$\pm 0.3$ $\times$ $10^{-18}$ to3.9$\pm0.8$ $\times$ $10^{-18}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ arcsec$^{-2}$. Thespatial distribution of the five 30" $\times$ 30" O VI detection fields in NGC4631 can be interpreted as the existence of filamentary structures of moreintense O VI emission superimposed within a diffuse and faint O VI halo instar-forming galaxies. Volume-filled O VI emission mapping is greatly needed todetermine the structure and prevalence of warm-hot gas and the role it plays inthe cycling of gas between the galaxy disk and the halo. Finally, we presentthe sensitivity of future funded and proposed UV missions (LUVOIR-A, LUVOIR-B,CETUS, and Aspera) to the detection of diffuse and faint O VI emission innearby galaxy halos.[Journal_ref: ApJ 916 7 (2021)]
• Paterson, K., Lundquist,, M. J., Rastinejad, J. C., Fong, W., Sand, D. J., Andrews, J. E., Amaro, R. C., Eskandari, O., Wyatt, S., Daly, P. N., Bradley, H., Zhou-Wright, S., Valenti, S., Yang, S., Christensen, E., Gibbs, A. R., Shelly, F., Bilinski, C., Chomiuk, L., , Corsi, A., et al. (2021). Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): Observations and Analysis from Advanced LIGO/Virgo’s Third Observing Run. The Astrophysical Journal.
• Hamden, E., Martin, D. C., Milliard, B., Schiminovich, D., Nikzad, S., Evrard, J., Kyne, G., Grange, R., Montel, J., Pirot, E., Hoadley, K., O'Sullivan, D., Melso, N., Picouet, V., Vibert, D., Balard, P., Blanchard, P., Crabill, M., Pascal, S., , Mirc, F., et al. (2020). FIREBall-2: The Faint Intergalactic Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon Telescope. \apj, 898(2), 170.
• Kyne, G., Hamden, E. T., Nikzad, S., Hoadley, K., Jewell, A., Jones, T., Hoenk, M., Cheng, S., Martin, D. C., Lingner, N., Schiminovich, D., Milliard, B., Grange, R., & Daigle, O. (2020). Delta-doped electron-multiplying CCDs for FIREBall-2. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 6, 011007.
• O'Sullivan, D. B., Martin, C., Matuszewski, M., Hoadley, K., Hamden, E., Neill, J. D., Lin, Z., & Parihar, P. (2020). The FLASHES Survey. I. Integral Field Spectroscopy of the CGM around 48 z ≃ 2.3-3.1 QSOs. \apj, 894(1), 3.
• Paterson, K., Lundquist, M., Rastinejad, J., Fong, W., Sand, D., Andrews, J., Amaro, R., Eskandari, O., Wyatt, S., Daly, P., Bradley, H., Zhou-Wright, S. .., Valenti, S., Yang, S., Christensen, E., Gibbs, A., Shelly, F., Bilinski, C., Chomiuk, L., , Corsi, A., et al. (2020). Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): Observations and Analysis from Advanced LIGO/Virgo's Third Observing Run. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2012.11700.
• Picouet, V., Milliard, B., Kyne, G., Vibert, D., Schiminovich, D., Martin, C., Hamden, E., Hoadley, K., Montel, J., Melso, N., O'Sullivan, D., Evrard, J., Perot, E., Grange, R., Nikzad, S., Balard, P., Blanchard, P., Mirc, F., Bray, N., , Jewell, A., et al. (2020). End-to-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the FIREBall-2 instrument. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 6, 044004.
• Augustin, R., Quiret, S., Milliard, B., P{\'eroux}, C., Vibert, D., Blaizot, J., Rasera, Y., Teyssier, R., Frank, S., Deharveng, J. -., Picouet, V., Martin, D., Hamden, E., Thatte, N., Pereira Santaella, M., Routledge, L., & Zieleniewski, S. (2019). Emission from the circumgalactic medium: from cosmological zoom-in simulations to multiwavelength observables. \mnras, 489(2), 2417-2438.
• Chen, H., Johnson, S. D., Rudie, G. C., Simcoe, R. A., Boettcher, E., Faucher-Gigu{\`ere}, C., Fielding, D., Hamden, E. T., Hummels, C. B., Mulchaey, J. S., Newman, A. B., Rauch, M., Shectman, S., Stern, J., Voit, G. M., & Zahedy, F. S. (2019). Tracking the Baryon Cycle in Emission and in Absorption. \baas, 51(3), 329.
• Hamden, E. (2019). Observing hydrogen from the stratosphere. Nature Astronomy, 3, 783-783.
• Hamden, E. (2019). Observing the cosmic web. Science, 366(6461), 31-32.
• Lundquist, M., Paterson, K., Fong, W., Sand, D., Andrews, J., Shivaei, I., Daly, P., Valenti, S., Yang, S., Christensen, E., Gibbs, A., Shelly, F., Wyatt, S., Eskandari, O., Kuhn, O., Amaro, R., Arcavi, I., Behroozi, P., Butler, N., , Chomiuk, L., et al. (2019). Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): System Overview and First Results from Advanced LIGO/Virgo\textquoterights Third Observing Run. \apjl, 881(2), L26.
• Martin, D. C., O'Sullivan, D., Matuszewski, M., Hamden, E., Dekel, A., Lapiner, S., Morrissey, P., Neill, J. D., Cantalupo, S., Prochaska, J. X., Steidel, C., Trainor, R., Moore, A., Ceverino, D., Primack, J., & Rizzi, L. (2019). Multi-filament gas inflows fuelling young star-forming galaxies. Nature Astronomy, 3, 822-831.
• O'Sullivan, D., Martin, C., Matuszewski, M., Hoadley, K., Hamden, E., Neill, J. D., Lin, Z., & Parihar, P. (2019). The FLASHES Survey I: Integral Field Spectroscopy of the CGM around 48 $z=2.3-3.1$ QSOs. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:1911.10740.
• Peeples, M., Behroozi, P., Bordoloi, R., Brooks, A., Bullock, J. S., Burchett, J. N., Chen, H., Chisholm, J., Christensen, C., Coil, A., Corlies, L., Diamond-Stanic, A., Donahue, M., Faucher-Gigu{\`ere}, C., Ferguson, H., Fielding, D., Fox, A. J., French, D. M., Furlanetto, S. R., , Gennaro, M., et al. (2019). Understanding the circumgalactic medium is critical for understanding galaxy evolution. \baas, 51(3), 368.
• Peeples, M., Behroozi, P., Bordoloi, R., Brooks, A., Bullock, J., Burchett, J., Chen, H., Chisholm, J., Christensen, C., Coil, A., Corlies, L., Diamond-Stanic, A. .., Donahue, M., Faucher-Gigu{`ere}, C., Ferguson, H., Fielding, D., Fox, A., French, D., Furlanetto, S., , Gennaro, M., et al. (2019). Understanding the circumgalactic medium is critical for understanding galaxy evolution. arXiv e-prints.
• Tuttle, S., Corlies, L., Hamden, E., Lehner, N., O'Meara, J. M., Peeples, M. S., Rafelski, M., Tumlinson, J., Wang, Q. D., & Werk, J. (2019). Mapping the CGM in Emission. Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020, 403.
• Cai, Z., Hamden, E., Matuszewski, M., Prochaska, J. X., Li, Q., Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni, B. F., Martin, C., Neill, J. D., O'Sullivan, D., Wang, R., Moore, A., & Morrissey, P. (2018). Keck/Palomar Cosmic Web Imagers Reveal an Enormous Ly\ensuremath{\alpha} Nebula in an Extremely Overdense Quasi-stellar Object Pair Field at z = 2.45. \apjl, 861(1), L3.
• Cai, Z., Hamden, E., Matuszewski, M., Prochaska, J., Li, Q., Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni Battaia, F., Martin, C., Neill, J., O'Sullivan, D., Wang, R., Moore, A., & Morrissey, P. (2018). Keck/Palomar Cosmic Web Imagers Reveal an Enormous Ly$alpha$ Nebula in an Extremely Overdense Quasi-stellar Object Pair Field at z = 2.45. apjl, 861, L3.

Proceedings Publications

• Choi, H., Trumper, I., Feng, Y., Kang, H., Hamden, E., & Kim, D. W. (2020, aug). Hyperion: Far-UV cross dispersion spectroscope design. In Optical Manufacturing and Testing XIII, 11487.
• Hamden, E. T., Hoadley, K., Martin, D. C., Schiminovich, D., Milliard, B., Nikzad, S., Augustin, R., Balard, P., Blanchard, P., Bray, N., Crabill, M., Evrard, J., Gomes, A., Grange, R., Gross, J., Jewell, A., Kyne, G., Limon, M., Lingner, N., , Matuszewski, M., et al. (2019, may). FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a suborbital platform. In \procspie, 10982.
• Hoadley, K., Hamden, E. T., Milliard, B., Khan, A. R., Agarwal, S., Lin, Z., Schiminovich, D., Kyne, G., Evrard, J., & Martin, D. C. (2019, sep). The FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope: 2018 flight and improvements for 2020. In \procspie, 11118.
• Lu, J., Fitzgerald, M., Dekany, R., Wright, S., Tuttle, S., Perrin, M., Froning, C., Lotz, J., Hunter, L., Close, L., Morzinski, K., McConnell, N., Max, C., Konopacky, Q., Bailey, V., Hamden, E., Kupke, R., Baranec, C., Hinz, P., , Chun, M., et al. (2019, sep). Training the Next Generation of OIR Instrumentalists. In \baas, 51.
• Moravec, E., Alpasian, M., Amon, A., Armentrout, W., Arney, G., Barron, D., Bellm, E., Bender, A., Bridge, J., Colon, K., Czekala, I., Datta, R., DeRoo, C., Feng, W., Florian, M., Follette, K., Gabriel, T., Hall, K., Hamden, E., , Hathi, N., et al. (2019, sep). The Early Career Perspective on the Coming Decade, Astrophysics Career Paths, and the Decadal Survey Process. In \baas, 51.