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Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia Curriculum Vitae Personal Information Email: WWW: Nationality: farrigon@eso.

1 Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia Curriculum Vitae Personal Information WWW: Nationality: Italian Research Interests Galaxy formation and processes that shape galaxy evolution, the circumgalactic medium of galaxies, gas accretion, the intergalactic medium, active galactic nuclei, formation of super-massive black-holes. Education PhD, MPIA - Member of the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy & Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg (IMPRS-HD) Supervisor: J.F. Hennawi (MPIA, now UCSB) Master Degree in Astrophysics and Space Physics, Universitá di Milano- Bicocca, Milan, 110/110 cum laude (with highest honor). Supervisor: G. Gavazzi (Universitá di Milano-Bicocca) Bachelor Degree in Physics, minor Astrophysics, Universitá di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, 110/110 cum laude (with highest honor). Supervisor: G. Gavazzi (Universitá di Milano-Bicocca) Experience Research 2015 today Fellow, ESO, Garching. Faculty Mentor: P. Moeller (ESO) PhD, MPIA, Heidelberg. Thesis Title: Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium in Emission Master, Universitá di Milano-Bicocca, Milan. Thesis Title: VIRGO PALACE: a PAnchromatic Look At Cluster Environment. Observational Runs 11/2017 SMA Hawaii, USA Continuum submm. observations of FAB nebula and service-mode observations. (5 days) 11/2017 SCUBA-2/JCMT Hawaii, USA Submm. observations of giant Lyα nebulae. (5 days) 2017 APEX Chajnantor, Chile Service-mode observations for ESO community. (33 days)

2 09/2016 SCUBA-2/JCMT Hawaii, USA Submm. observations of giant Lyα nebulae. (5 days) 2016 APEX Chajnantor, Chile Service-mode observations for ESO community. (40 days) 03/2014 GMOS/Gemini-S Cerro Pachon, Chile NB Lyα imaging of z 2 QSOs. (4 nights) 09/2013 GMOS/Gemini-S Cerro Pachon, Chile NB Lyα imaging of z 2 QSOs. (4 nights) 04/2013 LRIS/Keck Hawaii, USA NB Lyα imaging of z 2 QSOs. (2 nights) 03/2013 SOFI/NTT La Silla, Chile Confirmation of quasar redshifts (NIR). (6 nights) 03/2013 GMOS/Gemini-S Cerro Pachon, Chile Mounting and testing of a Narrow-Band filter (first custom-built NB filter for this telescope). (4 nights) 11/2012 DEIMOS/Keck Hawaii, USA Multi-slit spectroscopy of low-z galaxies. (1 night) 11/2012 LRIS/Keck Hawaii, USA NB Lyα imaging of z 2 QSOs. (2 nights) 07/2012 SOFI/NTT + EFOSC/NTT La Silla, Chile Confirmation of quasar redshifts (NIR) and quasar pairs. (3 nights) 03/2012 SOFI/NTT La Silla, Chile Confirmation of quasar redshifts (NIR). (5 nights) 03/ m/SPM Observatory, Mexico NB Hα imaging of galaxies in the Coma Cluster (7 nights). 02/ cm/Loiano (BO), Italy Imaging and spectroscopy of nearby galaxies (4 nights). Proposal Awarded (PI and large contribution as Co-I) 2017 MUSE/VLT AO Science verification Exploring an uncharted portion of the universe with a MUSE Ultra Deep Field Co-I, 10 h 2017 MUSE/VLT AO Science verification Spatially Resolved Metal Gas Clouds Co-I, 2 h 2017 MUSE/VLT AO Science verification What is the fate of giant star-forming clumps at high redshift? Co-I, 5 h 2017 ALMA Unveilinig dusty star-forming galaxies and probing multiple AGN within a giant Lyman-alpha nebula at z=3.167 PI, 4.7 h (rank B) 2017 MUSE/VLT Unveiling the gas reservoir around the monstrous SMGs - a pilot study with MUSE PI, 6 h (rank C) 2017 MUSE/VLT Are Giant z 2 3 Lyman Alpha Nebulae Signposts for Overdensities of Galaxies and AGN? PI, 17 h (rank C) 2017 SPOL/MMT Using Polarization to Reveal the Nature of Lyman Alpha Nebulae Co-I, 3 nights 2017 SCUBA-2/JCMT Extended Quasar Nebulae as Nurseries of Massive Clusters Co-I (not PI because of telescope policy), 9 h 2017 SMA Enormous Lyman-Alpha Nebulae as Signposts of Nascent Protoclusters PI, 10 h 2017 GMRT Constraining the Radio Emission within Enormous Lyman-Alpha Nebulae around (Assumed) Radio-Quiet Quasars PI, 11 h 2016 MUSE/VLT Quasar Probing Quasar meets MUSE: a simultaneous investigation of the circumgalactic medium of z 3 quasars in absorption and emission. PI, 8 h (rank A) 2016 LABOCA/APEX Testing Cosmological Structure Formation: Giant Lyman-alpha Nebulae, Multiple Quasars, and the Position of Protoclusters. PI, 31 h (rank C) 2016 SCUBA-2/JCMT Extended Quasar Nebulae as Nurseries of Massive Clusters Co-I (not PI because of telescope policy), 9 h 2016 Chandra A quadruple quasar coincident with a giant Ly-alpha nebula and a protocluster at z = 2 Co-I, 140 ks

3 2015 MUSE/VLT A MUSE survey of the dense halo gas in z 3 galaxies near optically-thick absorbers Co-I, 106 h (Large Program) Current co-advised students 2015 MUSE/VLT Giant Lyman-alpha Nebulae Around Luminous z 3 Quasars: A Direct Test of Cosmological Structure Formation. PI, 31 h (rank B) 2014 MUSE/VLT A Deep Search for Lyman-alpha Nebulae Around Luminous z 3 Quasars: A Direct Test of Cosmological Structure Formation PI, 30 h (rank B), 10 h (rank C) 2014 PdBI The build-up of galaxies: PdBI view on galaxy growth at z 2 Co-I 2014 MUSE/VLT A Deep Search for Lyman-alpha Nebulae Around Luminous z 3 Quasars: A Direct Test of Cosmological Structure Formation PI, 40 h (rank C) 2014 FORS2/VLT Are Luminous Quasars at z 4 Tracers of the Most Massive Dark Matter Halos? Co-I, 30 h 2013 PdBI The Molecular Gas Content of the Most Dramatic High-z AGN Overdensities Co-I 2013 LRIS/Keck Ly-alpha imaging of dark protogalactic clouds and circumgalactic streams using z 2 quasars Co-I, 4 nights 2013 GMOS/Gemini-S Deep Lyman-alpha Imaging of Luminous z 2 Quasars: Testing the Cold Accretion Paradigm Co-I (not PI because of telescope policy), 40 h 2013 GMOS/Gemini-S Deep Lyman-alpha Imaging of Luminous z 2 Quasars: Testing the Cold Accretion Paradigm Co-I (not PI because of telescope policy), 40 h 2012 GMOS/Gemini-S Deep Lyman-alpha Imaging of Luminous z 2 Quasars: Testing the Cold Accretion Paradigm Co-I (not PI because of telescope policy), 45 h Teaching and Extra-activities Ryan Vaught (Master Student at San Diego State University; Supervisor: K. Rubin); Fellow mentor of Miranda Jarvis (PhD student at ESO; Supervisor: V. Mainieri) today Referee for MNRAS, ApJ, A&A today Technical feasibility for APEX proposals together with Carlos De Breuck and Palle Moeller Technical secretary ESO OPC (Proposals seclection) today Organizer together with Damien Coffey (MPE) of the AGN club of the Garching campus ( Invited lesson in astronomy at high-school Steiner, Milan, Italy Co-organizer of the Galaxy Coffee, weekly seminar of the Galaxy and Cosmology Department at MPIA. Past co-advised students 2013 Tutor for the Stellar Photometry and CCD laboratory (use of the 70cm KING telescope at MPIA) - winter semester. Cristina Garcia Vergara (PhD at MPIA and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Supervisors: J.F. Hennawi, F. Barrientos). Publications ESO Fellow Inspiraling Halo Accretion Mapped in Lyman-α Emission around a z 3 Quasar Arrigoni Battaia, F., Prochaska, J.X., Hennawi, J.F., Obreja, A., Buck, T., Cantalupo, S., Dutton, A.A., Macciò, A.V., 2017, MNRAS in press; arxiv: ESO Fellow Mapping the Lyman-Alpha Emission Around a z 6.6 QSO with MUSE: Extended Emission and a Companion at Close Separation Farina, E.P.,..., Arrigoni Battaia, F., 2017, ApJ, 848, 78

4 ESO Fellow Discovery of a faint, star-forming, multiply lensed, Lyman-α blob Caminha, G.B., Karman, W., Rosati, P., Caputi, K.I., Arrigoni Battaia, F., et al., 2016, A&A, 595, 100 ESO Fellow The Stacked Lyα Emission Profile from the Circum-Galactic Medium of z 2 Quasars Arrigoni Battaia, F., Hennawi, J.F., Cantalupo, S., Prochaska, J.X., 2016, ApJ, 829, 3 PhD Deep HeII and CIV Spectroscopy of a Giant Lyman alpha Nebula: Dense Compact Gas Clumps in the Circumgalactic Medium of a z 2 Quasar Arrigoni Battaia, F., Hennawi, J.F., Prochaska, J.X., Cantalupo, S., 2015, ApJ, 809, 163 PhD Quasar Quartet Embedded in Giant Nebula Reveals Rare Massive Structure in Distant Universe Hennawi, J.F., Prochaska, J.X., Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni Battaia, F. 2015, Science, 348, PhD A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs Arrigoni Battaia, F., Yang, Y., Hennawi, J.F., et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 26 PhD Cosmic Web filament revealed in Lyα emission around a luminous high-redshift QSO Cantalupo, S., Arrigoni Battaia, F., Prochaska, J.X., Hennawi, J.F., Madau, P., 2014, Nature, 506, 63 Master/PhD Stripped gas as fuel for newly formed HII regions in the encounter between VCC 1249 and M 49: a unified picture from NGVS and GUViCS Arrigoni Battaia, F., Gavazzi, G., Fumagalli, M., et al. 2012, A&A, 543, A112 Non-refereed Publications ESO Fellow A VLT/FORS2 Narrowband Imaging Search for MgII Emission Around z 0.7 Galaxies Vaught, R.R., Rubin, K., Arrigoni Battaia, F. 2017, AAS poster PhD Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium in Emission Arrigoni Battaia, F. 2015, PhD Thesis. PhD A Deep Narrow Band Imaging Search for CIVλ1548Å and HeIIλ1640Å Emission from Lyman Alpha Blobs Arrigoni Battaia, F., Yang, Y., Hennawi, J. F., et al. 2013, IAU Symposium, 304, 32 PhD FLASHLIGHT: Fluorescent Lyman-Alpha Survey of cosmic Hydrogen illuminated by high-redshift quasars. Arrigoni Battaia, F., Hennawi, J. F., Cantalupo, S., Prochaska, J.X. 2013, IAU Symposium, 304, Master The age of star-forming regions stripped from VCC1249 by VCC1226 (M49) Arrigoni Battaia, F. 2011, Fornax, Virgo, Coma et al., Stellar Systems in High Density Environments, 3P Master VIRGO PALACE: a PAnchromatic Look At Cluster Environment. Arrigoni Battaia, F. 2011, Master Thesis. Bachelor AGNs and their host galaxies in the Coma Supercluster Arrigoni Battaia, F. 2009, Bachelor Thesis. ESO Fellow PhD PhD Awards and work visibility FAB nebula (target of my last paper) scheduled as Picture of the week by ESO for November 20th Awarded the ESO Fellowship. Listed in the top-ten discoveries of 2015 in the Astronomy Magazine for the work published on Science, 348, ( top-space-stories-of-2015-scientists-spot-youngest-cluster-of-galaxies)

5 PhD Bachelor Data reduction/analysis Modeling Visualization For the work done in collaboration with Cantalupo, S., Prochaska, J.X., Hennawi, J.F., and Madau, P., listed within the Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2014 in Physics by physicsworld.com. ( comet-landing-named-physics-world-2014-breakthrough-of-the-year) "Fondo per il sostegno dei giovani" ("Fund for support of young people") ( 2000 euro). Awarded to promising first-year bachelor students. Computer skills IRAF, IDL, python, SExtractor, SCAMP, SWarp Cloudy, MAPPINGS VisIT Conferences/Workshops/Schools and Talks 2017 Subaru, Hilo, Hawaii 15/11 Subaru Seminar: QSO MUSEUM: unveiling halo accretion around distant quasars 2017 The galaxy ecosystem. Flow of baryons through galaxies, ESO, Garching, Germany 24-28/07 Contributed Talk: QSO MUSEUM: unveiling halo accretion around distant quasars 2017 Early stages of Galaxy Cluster Formation 2017, ESO, Garching, Germany 17-21/07 Member of the LOC What matter(s) around galaxies, Institute for Computational Cosmology and Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham, UK 19-23/06. Invited Talk: QSO MUSEUM: unveiling the circum-galactic medium of z 3 quasars 2016 AGN club, ESO, Garching, 13/10. Talk: The Flashlight Idea: Photoionisation Modeling of Giant Lyman-Alpha Nebulae around Radio-Quiet Quasars 2016 East Asian Observatory, Hilo, USA, 28/09. Seminar: Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas in Emission around Quasars 2016 From Wall To Web, Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany, 24-29/07 Contributed Talk: Shedding Light on the Properties of Circum/Intergalactic Gas in Emission 2016 Institute for Computational Cosmology and Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham, UK, 2/03. Invited Seminar: Shedding Light on the Properties of Circum/Intergalactic Gas in Emission 2016 ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, 1/02. Invited Talk: FLASHLIGHT-GMOS: Characterizing the Circum-Galactic Medium in Emission around z 2 Quasars th Saas-Fee Advanced Course, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 13-19/03. Lyman-alpha as an astrophysical and cosmological tool 2015 IGM50: Is the Intergalactic Medium driving Star Formation?, Abbazia di Spineto, Tuscany, Italy, 8-12/06 Contributed Talk: FLASHLIGHT:Fluorescent Lyman-Alpha Survey of cosmic Hydrogen LIGHTed by quasars 2014 Science Day, MPIA, 9/12, Selected Talk: Detecting the Circumgalactic Gas in emission - what can we learn NOW? 2014 ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, 27/11. Invited Talk: Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas 2014 Galaxy Coffee, MPIA, 20/11, Talk: Warming up for MUSE: Deep Emission Line Spectroscopy of Circumgalactic Gas

6 2014 UCSC, Santa Cruz, USA, 14/11. FLASH Seminar: Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas 2014 Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA, 6/11. Talk: Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas 2014 IPAC, Pasadena, USA, 5/11. IPAC Seminar: Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas 2014 ESO, Garching, Germany, 28/10. Lunch Talk: Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas 2014 MPA-MPIA workshop, MPIA, 23-27/06. Talk: The Circumgalactic Medium in Emission 2014 Intergalactic Matters, MPIA, 16-20/06. Member of the LOC. Contributed Talk: Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyman Alpha Blobs 2013 IAU S304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies, Yerevan, Armenia, 07-11/10. Contributed Talk: Giant Lyα Emission Line Nebulae around Quasars Poster: A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs (updated) 2013 Gemini, La Serena, Chile, 09/09. Invited Colloquium: Giant Lyα Nebulae at high-z 2013 PUC, Santiago, Chile, 30/08. Talk: Illuminating the Cosmic Web - Results from an ongoing Lyα Survey 2013 The Physical Link between Galaxies and their Halos, Garching, Germany, 24-28/06. Contributed Talk: Illuminating the Cosmic Web - Results from an ongoing Lyα Survey 2013 ENIGMA group workshop, MPIA, 17-20/06. Talk: A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs 2013 Galaxy Coffee, MPIA, 07/02. Talk: Illuminating the Cosmic Web 2012/2013 Jerusalem Winter School on Early Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmology, Jerusalem, Israel, 31/12-10/01. Poster: A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs (updated) 2012 MPIA Galaxy and Cosmology retreat, Lobbach, Germany, 19-21/11. Talk: A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs (+ discovery giant nebulae) 2012 Galaxy Coffee, MPIA, 28/06. Talk: Interesting talks from the Baryon Cycle conference 2012 The Baryon Cycle, CGE, Irvine, USA, 14-16/06. Poster: A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs (updated) 2012 Galaxy Coffee, MPIA, 21/05. Talk: What I learned at the STSci Symposium on Gas Flows in Galaxies (observations) STScI May Symposium: Gas Flows in Galaxies, STScI, Baltimore, USA, 7-10/05. Poster: A Deep Narrow-Band Imaging Search for CIV and HeII Emission from Lyα Blobs 2011 Virgo, Fornax et al. : Stellar systems in high density environments, ESO Garching, Germany, 27/06-01/07. Poster: The age of star-forming regions stripped from VCC1249 by VCC1226 (M49) Italian English Spanish German Languages Mother tongue Advanced Intermediate Basic

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Illuminating the Sakura Web with Fluorescent Lyα Emission

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