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List of works by J. Christopher Howk

"Anomalous" Optical Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Are Common: Twoz~ 4 Bursts, GRB 060206 and GRB 060210

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Hubble space telescope study of Lyman limit systems: census and evolution

scientific article

A Search for Optical Afterglow from GRB 970828

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A deep search for faint galaxies associated with very low-redshift C IV absorbers: a case with cold-accretion characteristics

scientific article published in January 2013

A far ultraviolet spectroscopic explorer survey of interstellar O VI absorption in the Small Magellanic Cloud

scholarly article

A method for deriving accurate gas-phase abundances for the multiphase interstellar galactic halo

scientific article published in January 2006

A reservoir of ionized gas in the Galactic halo to sustain star formation in the Milky Way

scientific article published in January 2011

A search for extraplanar dust in nearby edge-on spirals

Abundances and physical conditions in the warm neutral medium toward {mu} Columbae

scholarly article

Abundances of Deuterium, Nitrogen, and Oxygen in the Local Interstellar Medium: Overview of First Results from theFUSEMission

scientific article

Abundances of deuterium, nitrogen, and oxygen toward HZ 43A: results from the FUSE mission

scientific article published in January 2002

Accretion of low-metallicity gas by the Milky Way

scientific article published in Nature

An Atlas ofFar Ultraviolet Spectroscopic ExplorerSight Lines toward the Magellanic Clouds

scientific article

An HST/COS legacy survey of high-velocity ultraviolet absorption in the Milky Way's circumgalactic medium and the Local Group

scientific article published in January 2017

An atlas of galactic OB spectra observed with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

scientific article published in January 2002

An empirical test of the Mg II {lambda}1240 doublet branching ratio and oscillator strength

scientific article published in January 2000

Background and scattered-light subtraction in the high-resolution echelle modes of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

scientific article published in January 2000

Chemical Abundances in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Cold neutral gas in a z = 4.2 damped Ly{alpha} system: fuel for star formation

scholarly article

Cooling in coronal gas in the M82 starburst superwind

scientific article published in January 2003

Coronal C^+3^ in the Large Magellanic Cloud: evidence for a hot halo

scientific article

Deuterium abundance toward G191-B2B: results from the FUSE mission

scholarly article

Deuterium abundance toward WD 0621-376: results from the FUSE mission

Deuterium and Oxygen toward Feige 110: results from the FUSE mission

scientific article

Distances to Galactic High‐Velocity Clouds. I. Cohen Stream, Complex GCP, Cloud g1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Distances to Galactic high-velocity clouds: complex C

scientific article published in January 2007

Down-the-barrel and transverse observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud: evidence for a symmetric galactic wind on the near and far sides of the galaxy

scientific article published in January 2016

Dust in the ionized medium of the galaxy: GHRS measurements of Al III and S III

scientific article published in January 1999

ERRATUM: A HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE STUDY OF LYMAN LIMIT SYSTEMS: CENSUS AND EVOLUTION (2011, ApJ, 736, 42)

scientific article published on 7 October 2013

Echelle spectroscopy of interstellar absorption toward {mu} Columbae with the Goddard high resolution spectrograph

scholarly article

Elemental abundances in two high column density damped Ly{alpha} systems at z < 1.5

scientific article published in January 2005

Empirical verification of the Fe II oscillator strengths in the FUSE bandpass

scientific article published in January 2000

Erratum: "FUSE Observations of Atomic Abundances and Molecular Hydrogen in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream" [Astron. J. 121, 992 (2001)]

erratum

Erratum: “Evidence for a Massive, Extended Circumgalactic Medium around the Andromeda Galaxy” (2015, ApJ, 804, 79)

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Evidence for a massive, extended circumgalactic medium around the Andromeda galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for cold accretion: primitive gas flowing onto a galaxy at z ~ 0.274

scientific article published in January 2011

Evidence of correlated titanium and deuterium depletion in the galactic interstellar medium

scientific article

Extraplanar H ii Regions in Spiral Galaxies. I. Low-metallicity Gas Accreting through the Disk-halo Interface of NGC 4013

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extraplanar H ii Regions in Spiral Galaxies. II. In Situ Star Formation in the Interstellar Thick Disk of NGC 4013

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extraplanar dust in spiral galaxies: observations and implications

scholarly article

Extraplanar dust in the edge-on spiral NGC 891

FUSE observations of atomic abundances and molecular hydrogen in the leading arm of the Magellanic Stream

scientific article published in January 2001

Far ultraviolet spectroscopic explorer observations of a supernova remnant in the line of sight to HD 5980 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

scientific article

Far ultraviolet spectroscopic explorer observations of interstellar gas toward the Large Magellanic Cloud star Sk -67{deg}05

scientific article published in January 2000

Far-ultraviolet and H{alpha} spectroscopy of SNR 0057-7226 in the Small Magellanic Cloud H II region N66

scholarly article

Far-ultraviolet spectroscopic explorer observations of degree-scale variations in galactic halo OVI

scholarly article

Far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of the intergalactic and interstellar absorption toward 3C 273

scientific article

Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5

scholarly article

Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). II. Emission from the z = 3 Circumgalactic Medium

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Finding the UV–Visible Path Forward: Proceedings of the Community Workshop to Plan the Future of UV/Visible Space Astrophysics

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Fundamental properties of the highly ionized plasmas in the Milky Way

scientific article published in January 2011

Galactic and circumgalactic O VI and its impact on the cosmological metal and baryon budgets at 2 < z <~ 3.5

scholarly article

H_2_ absorption in a dense interstellar filament in the Milky Way halo

scientific article

Highly ionized gas in the galactic halo: a FUSE survey of O VI absorption toward 22 halo stars

scientific article published in January 2003

Highly ionized plasma in the Large Magellanic Cloud: evidence for outflows and a possible galactic wind

scientific article published in January 2007

Hubble Space Telescope imaging of extraplanar dust structures in the edge-on spiral NGC 4217

scientific article published in January 2004

Intermediate- and high-velocity clouds in the Milky Way – I. Covering factors and vertical heights

scientific article published on 9 April 2022

Interstellar deuterium, nitrogen, and oxygen abundances toward BD +28{deg}4211: results from the FUSE mission

scientific article published in January 2002

Interstellar deuterium, nitrogen, and oxygen abundances toward GD 246, WD 2331-475, HZ 21, and Lanning 23: results from the FUSE mission

Ionization properties and elemental abundances in damped Ly{alpha} systems

scientific article published in January 2001

Ionized gas in damped Ly{alpha} systems and its effects on elemental abundance studies

Ionized gas in the first 10 kiloparsecs of the interstellar galactic halo

scholarly article

Ionized gas in the first 10 kpc of the interstellar galactic halo: metal ion fractions

scientific article published in January 2012

Low-metallicity absorbers account for half of the dense circumgalactic gas at z {\leq} 1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

MUSE-ALMA Haloes X: the stellar masses of gas-rich absorbing galaxies

scholarly article

Metallicity and physical conditions in the Magellanic Bridge

scientific article published in January 2008

Modeling the warm ionized interstellar medium and its impact on elemental abundance studies

New Gapless COS G140L Mode Proposed for Background-limited Far-UV Observations

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No diffuse H_2_ in the metal-deficient galaxy I Zw 18

scientific article published in January 2000

Observation of interstellar lithium in the low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud

scientific article

Observations of OviEmission from the Diffuse Interstellar Medium

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Observations of a Magellanic Corona

scientific article published on 28 September 2022

On the nature of the heat source for damped Ly{alpha} systems

scientific article published in January 2004

On the origin of the high-ionization intermediate-velocity gas toward HD 14434

scholarly article

Origin(s) of the highly ionized high-velocity clouds based on their distances

scientific article published in January 2010

Origins of the highly ionized gas along the line of sight toward HD 116852

scientific article published in January 2003

Oxygen gas-phase abundance revisited

Probing OviEmission in the Halos of Edge‐on Spiral Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Probing the Intergalactic Medium–Galaxy Connection toward PKS 0405−123. I. Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Metal‐Line Systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Project AMIGA: The Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Properties and origin of the high-velocity gas toward the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published in January 2009

QSO absorption systems detected in ne VIII: high-metallicity clouds with a large effective cross section

scientific article published in January 2013

STIS and GHRS observations of warm and hot gas overlying the Scutum supershell (GS 018-04+44)

scientific article published in January 2001

Small-scale structure of O VI interstellar gas in the direction of the globular cluster NGC 6752

scholarly article

Spectral Stacking to Probe the Baryonic Mass of the Milky Way Halo with Fe xiv Absorption

Spectroscopic classification of 42 Large Magellanic Cloud OB stars: selection of probes for the hot gaseous halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud

scholarly article

Stagnation and Infall of Dense Clumps in the Stellar Wind of τ Scorpii

scientific article (publication date: May 2000)

Strong z ∼ 0.5 O vi absorption towards PKS 0405−123: implications for ionization and metallicity of the Cosmic Web★

scientific article

Strongly Variablez = 1.48 Feiiand MgiiAbsorption in the Spectra ofz = 4.05 GRB 060206

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The CGM2 Survey: Circumgalactic O vi from Dwarf to Massive Star-forming Galaxies

scholarly article

The COS Absorption Survey of Baryon Harbors (CASBaH): Warm–Hot Circumgalactic Gas Reservoirs Traced by Ne viii Absorption

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The COS Absorption Survey of Baryon Harbors: The Galaxy Database and Cross-correlation Analysis of O vi Systems

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

The COS CGM Compendium. I. Survey Design and Initial Results

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The COS CGM Compendium. II. Metallicities of the Partial and Lyman Limit Systems at z ≲ 1

scholarly article

The COS CGM Compendium. III. Metallicity and Physical Properties of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium at z ≲ 1

scientific article published on 4 December 2019

The COS CGM Compendium. IV. Effects of Varying Ionization Backgrounds on Metallicity Determinations in the z < 1 Circumgalactic Medium

scientific article published on 14 June 2022

The COS/UVES absorption survey of the Magellanic Stream. I. One-tenth solar abundances along the body of the stream

scholarly article

The COS/UVES absorption survey of the Magellanic Stream. II. Evidence for a complex enrichment history of the stream from the fairall 9 sightline

scholarly article

The COS/UVES absorption survey of the Magellanic Stream. III. Ionization, total mass, and inflow rate onto the Milky Way

scholarly article

The Cosmic Baryon and Metal Cycles

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

The H I content of the Universe over the past 10 GYRS

scientific article published in January 2016

The H i Column Density Distribution of the Galactic Disk and Halo

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

The High‐Velocity Gas toward Messier 5: Tracing Feedback Flows in the Inner Galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Red Dead Redemption Survey of Circumgalactic Gas about Massive Galaxies. I. Mass and Metallicity of the Cool Phase

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

The Second Data Release of the KODIAQ Survey

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Third Data Release of the KODIAQ Survey

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

The UCSD HIRES/Keck I damped Ly{alpha} abundance Database.(1) III. An empirical study of photoionization in the damped Ly{alpha} system toward GB 1759+7539

scientific article published in January 2002

The UCSD radio-selected quasar survey for damped Ly{alpha} systems

scientific article published in January 2006

The UCSD/Keck damped Ly{alpha} abundance database: a decade of high-resolution spectroscopy

scientific article published in January 2007

The abundance of interstellar boron

scientific article published in January 2000

The bimodal metallicity distribution of the cool circumgalactic medium at z <~ 1

scholarly article

The connection between a Lyman limit system, a very strong O VI absorber, and galaxies at z ~ 0.203

scientific article

The cosmic evolution of the metallicity distribution of ionized gas traced by Lyman limit systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The distance to two neutral hydrogen clouds: the high-velocity complex A and the low-latitude intermediate-velocity cloud

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The elemental abundance pattern in a galaxy at z = 2.626.

scientific article

The first data release of the KODIAQ survey

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The global content, distribution, and kinematics of interstellar O VI in the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published in January 2002

The hidden mass and large spatial extent of a post-starburst galaxy outflow

scientific article published in January 2011

The high-ion content and kinematics of low-redshift Lyman limit systems

scientific article published in January 2013

The interstellar medium and star formation in edge-on galaxies. I. NGC 891

The metal-strong damped Ly{alpha} systems

The multiphase halo of NGC 891: WIYN H{alpha} and BVI imaging

scholarly article

The relationship between the dense neutral and diffuse ionized gas in the thick disks of two edge-on spiral galaxies

scientific article published in January 2013

Wavelength accuracy of the Keck HIRES spectrograph and measuring changes in the fine structure constant

scientific article published in January 2010