Search Results - "COMERFORD, Julia M"
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OFFSET ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AS TRACERS OF GALAXY MERGERS AND SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE GROWTH
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2014)“…Offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are AGNs that are in ongoing galaxy mergers, which produce kinematic offsets in the AGNs relative to their host galaxies…”
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A Catalog of Hyper-luminous X-Ray Sources and Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates out to High Redshifts
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2019)“…Hyper-luminous X-ray sources (HLXs; LX > 1041 erg s−1) are off-nuclear X-ray sources in galaxies and strong candidates for intermediate-mass black holes…”
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A Catalog of Broad Hα and Hβ Active Galactic Nuclei in MaNGA
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2024)“…Abstract Broad H α and H β emission lines (FWHM > 1000 km s −1 ) are incredibly efficient tracers of the high-velocity clouds encircling active galactic nuclei…”
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Merger-driven Growth of Intermediate-mass Black Holes: Constraints from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Hyper-luminous X-Ray Sources
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2024)“…Abstract Hyper-luminous X-ray sources (HLXs) are extragalactic off-nuclear X-ray sources with luminosities exceeding the theoretical limit for accretion onto…”
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A Catalog of 204 Offset and Dual Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs): Increased AGN Activation in Major Mergers and Separations under 4 kpc
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2021)“…Abstract During galaxy mergers, gas and dust are driven toward the centers of merging galaxies, triggering enhanced star formation and supermassive black hole…”
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A Census of WISE-selected Dual and Offset AGNs Across the Sky: New Constraints on Merger-driven Triggering of Obscured AGNs
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2023)“…Abstract Pairs of galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are powerful probes of merger-driven supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth as they can resolve…”
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SPATIALLY OFFSET ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. I. SELECTION AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2016)“…ABSTRACT We present a sample of 18 optically selected and X-ray-detected spatially offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…”
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Observational Constraints on Correlated Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei in Late-stage Galaxy Mergers
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-11-2017)“…Galaxy mergers are capable of triggering both star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and therefore may represent an important pathway in the…”
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A Catalog of 71 Coronal Line Galaxies in MaNGA: [Ne v] Is an Effective AGN Tracer
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2023)“…Abstract Despite the importance of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in galaxy evolution, accurate AGN identification is often challenging, as common AGN…”
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Spatially Offset Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Triggering in Galaxy Mergers
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2017)“…Galaxy mergers are likely to play a role in triggering active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but the conditions under which this process occurs are poorly understood…”
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KILOPARSEC-SCALE SPATIAL OFFSETS IN DOUBLE-PEAKED NARROW-LINE ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. I. MARKERS FOR SELECTION OF COMPELLING DUAL ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS CANDIDATES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2012)“…Merger-remnant galaxies with kiloparsec (kpc) scale separation dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) should be widespread as a consequence of galaxy mergers and…”
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THE STELLAR HALOS OF MASSIVE ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES. II. DETAILED ABUNDANCE RATIOS AT LARGE RADIUS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2013)“…We study the radial dependence in stellar populations of 33 nearby early-type galaxies with central stellar velocity dispersions [sigma][low *] [> ~] 150 km s…”
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A Bayesian Analysis of SDSS J0914+0853, a Low-mass Dual AGN Candidate
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2019)“…We present the first results from Bayesian AnalYsis of Multiple AGN in X-rays (BAYMAX), a tool that uses a Bayesian framework to quantitatively evaluate…”
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The Molecular Gas in the NGC 6240 Merging Galaxy System at the Highest Spatial Resolution
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2020)“…We present the highest-resolution-15 pc (0 03)-ALMA 12CO(2-1) line emission and 1.3 mm continuum maps, tracers of the molecular gas and dust, respectively, in…”
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A Candidate Dual QSO at Cosmic Noon
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-07-2023)“…Abstract We report the discovery of a candidate dual QSO at z = 1.889, a redshift that is in the era known as “cosmic noon” where most of the universe’s black…”
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An Active Galactic Nucleus Caught in the Act of Turning Off and On
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2017)“…We present the discovery of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) that is turning off and then on again in the z = 0.06 galaxy SDSS J1354+1327. This episodic…”
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The Complex Gaseous and Stellar Environments of the Nearby Dual Active Galactic Nucleus Mrk 739
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2021)“…Abstract We present integral field spectroscopic observations of the nearby ( z ∼ 0.03) dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) Mrk 739, whose projected nuclear…”
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THE STELLAR HALOS OF MASSIVE ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2012)“…We use the Mitchell Spectrograph (formerly VIRUS-P) on the McDonald Observatory 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope to search for the chemical signatures of…”
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Optical, Near-IR, and Sub-mm IFU Observations of the Nearby Dual Active Galactic Nuclei MRK 463
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2018)“…We present optical and near-IR Integral Field Unit (IFU) and ALMA band 6 observations of the nearby dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) Mrk 463. At a distance…”
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