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List of works by Michael T. Murphy

A Catalogue of Damped Lyman Alpha Absorption Systems and Radio Flux Densities of the Background Quasars

A Correlation between Galaxy Morphology and MgiiHalo Absorption Strength

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A Unique View of AGN-driven Molecular Outflows: The Discovery of a Massive Galaxy Counterpart to a Z = 2.4 High-metallicity Damped Lyα Absorber

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A new analysis of fine-structure constant measurements and modelling errors from quasar absorption lines

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A new candidate for probing Population III nucleosynthesis with carbon-enhanced damped Lyα systems

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A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z ∼ 2.55–2.95

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A new method for detecting velocity shifts and distortions between optical spectra

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Collaborative Workspaces to Accelerate Discovery

article published in 2017

Comment on “Limits on the Time Variation of the Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant in the Low Energy Limit from Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Distant Quasars”

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Constraining the temperature–density relation of the intergalactic medium with the Lyman α and β forests

Constraint on a Varying Proton-Electron Mass Ratio 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Constraint on a variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio from H2 absorption towards quasar Q2348−011

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Deuterium abundance in the most metal-poor damped Lyman alpha system: converging on Ωb,0h2

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Discovery of the transition of a mini-broad absorption line into a broad absorption line in the SDSS quasar J115122.14+020426.3

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Dust depletion, chemical uniformity and environment of Ca ii H&K quasar absorbers

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Exploring the origins of a new, apparently metal-free gas cloud at z = 4.4

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Exploring variations in the fundamental constants with ELTs: the CODEX spectrograph on OWL

First Constraint on Cosmological Variation of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio from Two Independent Telescopes

scientific article published on 06 May 2011

Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant

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Further evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from Keck/HIRES QSO absorption spectra

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Galaxy group at z=0.3 associated with the damped Lyman α system towards quasar Q1127-145

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HIGH-RESOLUTION MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY OF H2 AT 10% THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE; TESTING THE CONSTANCY OF PHYSICAL LAW

Halo gas and galaxy disk kinematics derived from observations and {Lambda}CDM simulations of mg II absorption-selected galaxies at intermediate redshift

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Halo gas cross sections and covering fractions of mg II absorption selected galaxies

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Imprints of the first billion years: Lyman limit systems at z ∼ 5

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Improved constraints on possible variation of physical constants from H I 21-cm and molecular QSO absorption lines

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Indications of a Spatial Variation of the Fine Structure Constant

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Keck constraints on a varying fine-structure constant: wavelength calibration errors

Laboratory atomic transition data for precise optical quasar absorption spectroscopy

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Laser frequency comb techniques for precise astronomical spectroscopy

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Laser frequency combs for astronomical observations

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Limits on Variations in Fundamental Constants from 21-cm and Ultraviolet Quasar Absorption Lines

scientific article published on 22 July 2005

Limits on a gravitational field dependence of the proton-electron mass ratio from H2 in white dwarf stars

scientific article published on 18 September 2014

MAGIICAT I. The Mg II absorber-galaxy catalog

MAGiiCAT IV. KINEMATICS OF THE CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM AND EVIDENCE FOR QUIESCENT EVOLUTION AROUND RED GALAXIES

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MAGiiCAT V. ORIENTATION OF OUTFLOWS AND ACCRETION DETERMINE THE KINEMATICS AND COLUMN DENSITIES OF THE CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM

MAGiiCAT VI. The Mg ii Intragroup Medium Is Kinematically Complex

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MASE: A New Data-Reduction Pipeline for the Magellan Echellette Spectrograph

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods applied to measuring the fine structure constant from quasar spectroscopy

Metal-enriched, subkiloparsec gas clumps in the circumgalactic medium of a faint z = 2.5 galaxy

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Morphological properties of z∼ 0.5 absorption-selected galaxies: the role of galaxy inclination

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New Results on Quasar Outflows

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New constraint on cosmological variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio from Q0528−250

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New perspectives on strong z≃ 0.5 Mg ii absorbers: are halo mass and equivalent width anticorrelated?

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Origin of Metals around Galaxies. I. Catalogs of Metal-line Absorption Doublets from High-resolution Quasar Spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Possible Population III remnants at redshift 3.5

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Precise limits on cosmological variability of the fine-structure constant with zinc and chromium quasar absorption lines

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Precision measures of the primordial abundance of deuterium

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Probing the circumgalactic medium of active galactic nuclei with background quasars

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Probing the small-scale structure of the intergalactic medium with ESPRESSO: spectroscopy of the lensed QSO UM673

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Revision of VLT/UVES constraints on a varying fine-structure constant

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Revisiting the origin of the high metallicities of sub-damped Lyman-alpha systems

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Search for Cosmological μ-Variation from High-Redshift H2 Absorption; A Status Report

Selection of ThAr lines for wavelength calibration of echelle spectra and implications for variations in the fine-structure constant

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Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant - new results from VLT/UVES

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Stringent Null Constraint on Cosmological Evolution of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio

scientific article published on 19 December 2008

Strong limit on a variable proton-to-electron mass ratio from molecules in the distant universe

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Subaru Telescope limits on cosmological variations in the fine-structure constant

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The CGM at Cosmic Noon with KCWI: Outflows from a Star-forming Galaxy at <i>z</i> = 2.071

scientific article published in 2020

The Giant Gemini GMOS survey of zem > 4.4 quasars – I. Measuring the mean free path across cosmic time

scientific article published on 14 October 2014

The Magellan uniform survey of damped Lyman α systems – I. Cosmic metallicity evolution★

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The Magellan uniform survey of damped Lyman α systems – II. Paucity of strong molecular hydrogen absorption★

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The SINFONI MgiiProgram for Line Emitters (SIMPLE): Discovering Starbursts near QSO Sight Lines

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The UVES Spectral Quasar Absorption Database (SQUAD) data release 1: the first 10 million seconds

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The VLT SINFONI Mg II program for line emitters (SIMPLE). II. Background quasars probing z ~ 1 galactic winds

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The clustering of luminous red galaxies around Mg ii absorbers

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The density, the cosmic microwave background, and the proton-to-electron mass ratio in a cloud at redshift 0.9

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The dust content of damped Lyman α systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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The explosion energy of early stellar populations: the Fe-peak element ratios in low-metallicity damped Lyα systems

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The highly ionized circumgalactic medium is kinematically uniform around galaxies

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The kinematic signature of damped Lyman alpha systems: using theD-index to screen for high column density H i absorbers★

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The neutral hydrogen cosmological mass density atz= 5

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

The outer halo globular clusters of M31

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The redshift distribution of intervening weak Mg II quasar absorbers and a curious dependence on quasar luminosity

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Wavelength calibration of the VLT-UVES spectrograph

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