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Table of contents
1 Introduction
1.1 A Brief Cosmic History
1.1.1 Growth of Galaxies
1.2 Absorption Systems
1.2.1 N(Hi) Frequency Distribution
1.2.2 Characterizing Strong Absorbers
1.2.2.1 Neutral Hydrogen Mass Density
1.2.2.2 Metallicity
1.3 Relating Absorption Line Systems and Galaxies
1.3.1 Mg ii Systems
1.3.2 CGM
1.3.3 DLA Systems
1.3.4 DLA Galaxies in Simulations
1.3.5 Observing DLA Galaxies
1.4 Thesis Work
2 SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
2.1 Survey Goals
2.2 Telescope and Spectrograph
2.3 Data Processing and Quasar Redshift Estimation
2.4 Data Releases
2.5 Value-Added Catalogs
2.6 Quasar and Absorption System Science
2.7 Survey Results
2.8 Future Prospects
3 A glance at the host galaxy of high-redshift quasars using strong damped Lyman-alpha systems as coronagraphs
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Observing Quasar Host Galaxies
3.1.2 Associated DLAs
3.2 Sample Definition
3.2.1 Strong associated DLAs
3.2.2 Measuring DLA column densities and emissions
3.2.3 The Statistical Sample
3.2.4 The Emission Properties Sample
3.2.5 The Redshift Distribution
3.3 Anticipated Number of Intervening DLA Systems within 1 500 km s−1 of zQSO
3.3.1 Anticipated Number in DR9
3.3.2 The Effect of Clustering near Quasars
3.4 Characterizing the Statistical Sample
3.4.1 Scenario
3.4.2 Kinematics
3.4.3 Metals
3.4.4 Reddening
3.5 Characterizing the Narrow Lyα Emission
3.5.1 Correlation with other properties
3.5.2 Position and profile of the emission line
3.5.3 Comparison with Lyman Break Galaxies
3.5.4 Comparison with Lyman-Alpha Emitters
3.5.5 Comparison with Radio Galaxies
3.6 DLAs with partial coverage
3.7 Discussion and Conclusions
3.8 Follow-Up Projects
3.8.1 Observations with Magellan/MagE
3.8.2 Observations with VLT/X-shooter
3.8.3 Observations with HST/WFC3
4 Close Line-of-Sight Pairs
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Close Line-of-Sight Pairs in SDSS-III BOSS
4.2.1 The Transverse Correlation Function for Lyα Forest Absorptions
4.2.2 Quasar Host Galaxy Environments
4.3 VLT/X-shooter Follow-Up Observations
4.3.1 Pair SDSS J0239-0106
4.3.2 Pair SDSS J2338-0003
4.3.3 Pair SDSS J0913-0107
4.4 Preliminary Conclusions
5 A ∼6 Mpc overdensity at z ≃ 2.7 detected along a pair of quasar sight lines: filament or protocluster?
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Data
5.3 Absorption Systems
5.3.1 Background Quasar Line-of-Sight
5.3.1.1 Hi Absorption Systems
5.3.1.2 Abundances
5.3.2 Foreground Quasar Line-of-Sight
5.3.2.1 Hi Absorption Systems
5.3.2.2 Abundances
5.4 Discussion and Conclusions
6 Conclusions and Prospects 149
6.1 Conclusions
6.2 Prospects
6.2.1 Follow-Up Projects
6.2.2 Future Work
