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List of works by John M. O'Meara

A Shot in the Dark: A Technique for Locating the Stellar Counterparts of Damped Lyα Absorbers

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A definitive survey for Lyman limit systems at z ~ 3.5 with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

CGM<sup>2</sup> I: The Extent of the Circumgalactic Medium Traced by Neutral Hydrogen

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Detection of pristine gas two billion years after the Big Bang

scientific article

Deuterium and the baryonic density of the Universe

scientific article published in January 2000

Directly imaging damped Ly α galaxies at z > 2 – III. The star formation rates of neutral gas reservoirs at z ∼ 2.7

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Directly imaging damped Lyman α galaxies at z > 2 - I. Methodology and first results★

scientific article published on 30 July 2010

Directly imaging damped Lyα galaxies at z > 2 – II. Imaging and spectroscopic observations of 32 quasar fields

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

Dissecting the properties of optically thick hydrogen at the peak of cosmic star formation history

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scholarly article

Halo masses of Mg ɪɪ absorbers at z∼ 0.5 from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7

scholarly article

MUSE searches for galaxies near very metal-poor gas clouds atz∼ 3: new constraints for cold accretion models

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Mapping kiloparsec-scale structures in the extended HI disc of the galaxy UGC 000439 by HI 21-cm absorption

scientific article published in January 2016

Mean amount of absorption from the intergalactic medium

scientific article published in January 2004

Multiphase gas in galaxy halos: the O VI lyman-limit system toward J1009+0713

scientific article published in January 2011

New Hubble space telescope spectra of QSO PG 1718+4807: no evidence for strong deuterium absorption

scientific article

New observations of the primordial D/H ratio towards QSOs

scientific article

Not dead yet: cool circumgalactic gas in the halos of early-type galaxies

scientific article published in January 2012

On the Kinematics of Cold, Metal-enriched Galactic Fountain Flows in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

scientific article published in 2022

Possible Population III remnants at redshift 3.5

scientific article

Precious metals in SDSS quasar spectra. I. Tracking the evolution of strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 C IV absorbers with thousands of systems

scientific article published in January 2013

Precious metals in SDSS quasar spectra. II. Tracking the evolution of strong, 0.4 < z < 2.3 Mg II absorbers with thousands of systems

scientific article published in January 2013

Predicting QSO continua in the Ly{alpha} forest

Project AMIGA: a minimal covering factor for optically thick circumgalactic gas around the Andromeda galaxy

scientific article

QSO 0130-4021: a third QSO showing a low deuterium-to-hydrogen abundance ratio

scholarly article

Relative flux calibration of Keck HIRES echelle spectra

Review of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and primordial abundances

Supersolar super-Lyman limit systems

scientific article published in January 2006

The Advanced Camera for Surveys+Wide Field Camera 3 Survey for Lyman limit systems. I. The data

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-Halos survey: Keck LRIS and Magellan MagE optical spectroscopy

scientific article published in January 2012

The COS-halos survey: an empirical description of metal-line absorption in the low-redshift circumgalactic medium

scientific article published in January 2013

The COS-halos survey: physical conditions and baryonic mass in the low-redshift circumgalactic medium

scientific article published in January 2014

The COS-halos survey: rationale, design, and a census of circumgalactic neutral hydrogen

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 H i Column Density Distribution of the Galactic Disk and Halo

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

The Kast ground-based ultraviolet spectral survey of 79 quasi-stellar objects at redshift 2 for Ly{alpha} forest and metal absorption

scientific article

The Keck + Magellan survey for Lyman limit absorption. II. A case study on metallicity variations

scientific article published in January 2010

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 HIRES/Keck I damped Ly{alpha} abundance database. I. The data

scientific article published in January 2001

The UCSD HIRES/Keck I damped Ly{alpha} abundance database. IV. Probing galactic enrichment histories with nitrogen

scientific article published in January 2002

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

scholarly article

The cosmological baryon density from the Deuterium-to-Hydrogen ratio in QSO absorption systems: D/H toward Q1243+3047

scientific article published in January 2003

The deuterium-to-hydrogen abundance ratio toward the QSO SDSS J155810.16-003120.0

scientific article published in January 2006

The first observations of low-redshift damped Ly{alpha} systems with the cosmic origins spectrograph

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 neutral hydrogen cosmological mass density atz= 5

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

The physical properties ofz> 2 Lyman limit systems: new constraints for feedback and accretion models

scientific article published on 3 December 2015

Towards a unified description of the intergalactic medium at redshift z ≈ 2.5

scientific article published on 12 December 2013

Witnessing galaxy assembly in an extended z≈3 structure

scientific article published on 26 July 2017