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List of works by Max Pettini

A Sub-damped Lyα Absorber with Unusual Abundances: Evidence of Gas Recycling in a Low-redshift Galaxy Group

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A Window on the Earliest Star Formation: Extreme Photoionization Conditions of a High-ionization, Low-metallicity Lensed Galaxy at z ∼ 2*

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A carbon-enhanced metal-poor damped Lyα system: probing gas from Population III nucleosynthesis?

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A high fraction of Ly{alpha} emitters among galaxies with extreme emission line ratios at z ~2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A mature dusty star-forming galaxy hosting GRB 080607 at z = 3.036

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

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A new, precise measurement of the primordial abundance of deuterium

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A newly discovered DLA and associated Lyα emission in the spectra of the gravitationally lensed quasar UM 673A,B

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A search for the submillimetre counterparts to Lyman break galaxies

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Afterglow observations of Fermi large area telescope gamma-ray bursts and the emerging class of hyper-energetic events

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Observational Limit on Circumstellar Hα from Supernova 1994D

An optical study of the dynamics of the clumpy wind-blown nebula RCW 58

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Circumstellar H from SN 1994D and future Type Ia supernovae: an observational test of progenitor models

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Column Density, Kinematics, and Thermal State of Metal-bearing Gas within the Virial Radius of z ∼ 2 Star-forming Galaxies in the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey

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Comprehensive study of a z = 2.35 DLA Galaxy: mass, metallicity, age, morphology and SFR from HST and VLT★

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Condensations in the planetary nebula NGC 7293: an origin in circumstellar SiO maser spots?

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Deep Mid‐Infrared Observations of Lyman Break Galaxies

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Deep Observations of Lyman Break Galaxies

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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 most metal-poor damped Lyman-α system

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Dust in High‐Redshift Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Erratum: The Keck Baryonic Structure Survey: using foreground/background galaxy pairs to trace the structure and kinematics of circumgalactic neutral hydrogen at z ∼ 2

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Erratum: “A mature dusty star-forming galaxy hosting GRB 080607 at z = 3.036” (2010, ApJ, 723, L218)

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Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Lyα trough below redshift six

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Galaxy clustering at z ∼ 3

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High-redshift starbursting dwarf galaxies revealed by {gamma}-ray burst afterglows

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Integral Field Spectroscopy of High‐Redshift Star‐forming Galaxies with Laser‐guided Adaptive Optics: Evidence for Dispersion‐dominated Kinematics

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Large-scale outflows from z≃ 0.7 starburst galaxies identified via ultrastrong Mg ii quasar absorption lines

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Lyα Imaging of a Proto–Cluster Region at ⟨z⟩ = 3.09

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mass-loaded astronomical flows – I. General principles and their application to RCW 58

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Measurements of Ca ii absorption, metals and dust in a sample ofz≃ 1 DLAs and subDLAs

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Measuring the Physical Conditions in High-redshift Star-forming Galaxies: Insights from KBSS-MOSFIRE

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Metal enrichment, dust, and star formation in galaxies at high redshifts. 3: Zn and CR abundances for 17 damped Lyman-alpha systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Metals in the intergalactic medium

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Morphologies of Galaxies in and around a Protocluster atz= 2.300

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Multiphase circumgalactic medium probed with MUSE and ALMA

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Near-IR Integral Field Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies

Nebular Emission Line Ratios inz≃ 2–3 Star-forming Galaxies with KBSS-MOSFIRE: Exploring the Impact of Ionization, Excitation, and Nitrogen-to-Oxygen Ratio

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the Incidence of Strong MgiiAbsorbers along Gamma-Ray Burst Sight Lines

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

One Percent Determination of the Primordial Deuterium Abundance

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

PTF1 J082340.04+081936.5: a hot subdwarf B star with a low-mass white dwarf companion in an 87-minute orbit

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Precision measures of the primordial abundance of deuterium

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Reconciling the stellar and nebular spectra of high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Rest-Frame UV Spectra of Star-Forming Galaxies: From Z ∼ 3 to the Redshift Desert

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SDSS J1059+4251, a Highly Magnified z ∼ 2.8 Star-forming Galaxy: ESI Observations of the Rest-frame UV Spectrum

scientific article published in 2021

Spatially resolved STIS spectra of the gravitationally lensed broad absorption line quasar APM08279+5255: the nature of component C and evidence for microlensing

scientific article (publication date: 21 July 2002)

Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Normal Star-forming Galaxies at Redshifts z > 3

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Star Forming Galaxies in the ‘Redshift Desert’

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Strong nebular line ratios in the spectra of z ~ 2-3 star forming galaxies: first results from KBSS-MOSFIRE

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Subkiloparsec Imaging of Lyα Emission in a Low-mass, Highly Ionized, Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy at z = 1.84

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THE Lyα PROPERTIES OF FAINT GALAXIES AT z ∼ 2-3 WITH SYSTEMIC REDSHIFTS AND VELOCITY DISPERSIONS FROM KECK-MOSFIRE

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Cosmic Horseshoe: Discovery of an Einstein Ring around a Giant Luminous Red Galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Enrichment History of the Intergalactic Medium—Measuring the C [CSC]iv[/CSC]/H [CSC]i[/CSC] Ratio in the L[CLC]y[/CLC]α Forest

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The Keck Baryonic Structure Survey: using foreground/background galaxy pairs to trace the structure and kinematics of circumgalactic neutral hydrogen at z ∼ 2

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The Keck Lyman Continuum Spectroscopic Survey (KLCS): The Emergent Ionizing Spectrum of Galaxies at z ∼ 3

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Lyman a Forest in QSOs: A Window on Intergalactic Clouds at High Redshift

scientific article published in 1990

The Metallicity of High‐Redshift Galaxies: The Abundance of Zinc in 34 Damped Lyα Systems fromz= 0.7 to 3.4

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Most Distant Galaxies

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The Rest-Frame Optical Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2

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The Stellar, Gas, and Dynamical Masses of Star‐forming Galaxies at z∼ 2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The decay of optical emission from the γ-ray burst GRB970228

scientific article published in Nature

The effect of dust bias on the census of neutral gas and metals in the high-redshift Universe due to SDSS-II quasar colour selection

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The emergence of metals and dust in galaxies at high redshifts

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

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The gaseous environment of high-z galaxies: precision measurements of neutral hydrogen in the circumgalactic medium of z ~ 2-3 galaxies in the Keck baryonic structure survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The host galaxies of Swift dark gamma-ray bursts: observational constraints on highly obscured and very high redshift GRBs

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The host galaxies of strong Ca II quasar absorption systems at z < 0.5

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The kiloparsec-scale kinematics of high-redshift star-forming galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The most metal-poor damped Ly{alpha} systems: an insight into dwarf galaxies at high-redshift

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The most metal-poor damped Lyα systems: insights into chemical evolution in the very metal-poor regime

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The nature of H i absorbers in gamma-ray burst afterglows: clues from hydrodynamic simulations

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The primordial abundance of deuterium: ionization correction

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The primordial deuterium abundance of the most metal-poor damped Lyman-{alpha} system

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The remarkable kinematics of the WR wind-blown bubble RCW 58

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The sizes and kinematic structure of absorption systems towards the lensed quasar APM08279+5255

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The spectra of star forming galaxies at high redshift

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The star formation rate of Ca II and damped Lyman absorbers at 0.4 < z < 1.3

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Transient optical emission from the error box of the γ-ray burst of 28 February 1997

scientific article published in Nature

UV emission properties of low and high redshift galaxies

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Where Are the Absorbers toward Q2302+029?

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Zn and Cr Abundances in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems from the CORALS Survey

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