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Black hole, neutron star, and white dwarf merger rates in AGN discs by McKernan, B, Ford, K E S, O’Shaughnessy, R

“…ABSTRACT Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are detecting a large number of binary stellar origin black hole (BH) mergers. A promising channel for accelerated BH…”
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Binary black hole merger rates in AGN discs versus nuclear star clusters: loud beats quiet by Ford, K E Saavik, McKernan, Barry

“…ABSTRACT Galactic nuclei are promising sites for stellar origin black hole (BH) mergers, as part of merger hierarchies in deep potential wells. We show that…”
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Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei by Yang, Y., Bartos, I., Gayathri, V., Ford, K. E. S., Haiman, Z., Klimenko, S., Kocsis, B., Márka, S., Márka, Z., McKernan, B., O’Shaughnessy, R.

“…The origins of the stellar-mass black hole mergers discovered by LIGO/Virgo are still unknown. Here we show that if migration traps develop in the accretion…”
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Monte Carlo simulations of black hole mergers in AGN discs: Low χeff mergers and predictions for LIGO by McKernan, B, Ford, K E S, O’Shaugnessy, R, Wysocki, D

“…ABSTRACT Accretion discs around supermassive black holes are promising sites for stellar mass black hole mergers detectable with LIGO. Here we present the…”
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Aligning nuclear cluster orbits with an active galactic nucleus accretion disc by Fabj, Gaia, Nasim, Syeda S, Caban, Freddy, Ford, K E Saavik, McKernan, Barry, Bellovary, Jillian M

“…ABSTRACT Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of discs of gas on to supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Stars and stellar remnants orbiting…”
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A new physical interpretation of optical and infrared variability in quasars by Ross, Nicholas P, Ford, K E Saavik, Graham, Matthew, McKernan, Barry, Stern, Daniel, Meisner, Aaron M, Assef, Roberto J, Dey, Arjun, Drake, Andrew J, Jun, Hyunsung D, Lang, Dustin

“…Changing-look quasars are a recently identified class of active galaxies in which the strong UV continuum and/or broad optical hydrogen emission lines…”
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Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes. II. Spins and Incoming Objects by Secunda, Amy, Bellovary, Jillian, Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark, Ford, K. E. Saavik, McKernan, Barry, Leigh, Nathan W. C., Lyra, Wladimir, Sándor, Zsolt, Adorno, Jose I.

“…The masses, rates, and spins of merging stellar mass binary black holes (BBHs) detected by aLIGO and Virgo provide challenges to traditional BBH formation and…”
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On the rate of black hole binary mergers in galactic nuclei due to dynamical hardening by Leigh, N W C, Geller, A M, McKernan, B, Ford, K E S, Mac Low, M-M, Bellovary, J, Haiman, Z, Lyra, W, Samsing, J, O'Dowd, M, Kocsis, B, Endlich, S

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Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes by Secunda, Amy, Bellovary, Jillian, Low, Mordecai-Mark Mac, Ford, K. E. Saavik, McKernan, Barry, Leigh, Nathan W. C., Lyra, Wladimir, Sándor, Zsolt

“…The merger rate of stellar-mass black hole binaries (sBHBs) inferred by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) suggests the…”
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Constraining Stellar-mass Black Hole Mergers in AGN Disks Detectable with LIGO by McKernan, Barry, Saavik Ford, K. E., Bellovary, J., Leigh, N. W. C., Haiman, Z., Kocsis, B., Lyra, W., Mac Low, M.-M., Metzger, B., O'Dowd, M., Endlich, S., Rosen, D. J.

“…Black hole (BH) mergers detectable with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) can occur in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks. Here…”
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Understanding extreme quasar optical variability with CRTS – II. Changing-state quasars by Graham, Matthew J, Ross, Nicholas P, Stern, Daniel, Drake, Andrew J, McKernan, Barry, Ford, K E Saavik, Djorgovski, S G, Mahabal, Ashish A, Glikman, Eilat, Larson, Steve, Christensen, Eric

“…ABSTRACT We present the results of a systematic search for quasars in the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey exhibiting both strong photometric variability…”
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In-plane tidal disruption of stars in discs of active galactic nuclei by Ryu, Taeho, McKernan, Barry, Ford, K E Saavik, Cantiello, Matteo, Graham, Matthew, Stern, Daniel, Leigh, Nathan W C

“…ABSTRACT Stars embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs or captured by them may scatter onto the supermassive black hole (SMBH), leading to a tidal…”
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Tidal disruption events from three-body scatterings and eccentricity pumping in the discs of active galactic nuclei by Prasad, Chaitanya, Wang, Yihan, Perna, Rosalba, Ford, K E Saavik, McKernan, Barry

“…ABSTRACT Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are routinely observed in quiescent galaxies, as stars from the nuclear star cluster are scattered into the loss cone…”
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Measuring the Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei Disks with Gravitational Waves by Vajpeyi, Avi, Thrane, Eric, Smith, Rory, McKernan, Barry, Saavik Ford, K. E.

“…Abstract Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are promising environments for the assembly of merging binary black hole (BBH) systems. Interest in AGNs as nurseries…”
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A Light in the Dark: Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility by Graham, Matthew J., McKernan, Barry, Ford, K. E. Saavik, Stern, Daniel, Djorgovski, S. G., Coughlin, Michael, Burdge, Kevin B., Bellm, Eric C., Helou, George, Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Purdum, Josiah, Rosnet, Philippe, Rusholme, Ben

“…Abstract The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are promising locations for the merger of compact objects detected by gravitational wave (GW)…”
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LIGO–Virgo correlations between mass ratio and effective inspiral spin: testing the active galactic nuclei channel by McKernan, B, Ford, K E S, Callister, T, Farr, W M, O’Shaughnessy, R, Smith, R, Thrane, E, Vajpeyi, A

“…ABSTRACT Observations by LIGO–Virgo of binary black hole mergers suggest a possible anticorrelation between black hole mass ratio (q = m2/m1) and the effective…”
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Latent Stochastic Differential Equations for Modeling Quasar Variability and Inferring Black Hole Properties by Fagin, Joshua, Park, Ji Won, Best, Henry, Chan, James H. H., Ford, K. E. Saavik, Graham, Matthew J., Villar, V. Ashley, Ho, Shirley, O’Dowd, Matthew

“…Abstract Quasars are bright and unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) thought to be powered by the accretion of matter around supermassive black holes at the…”
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The first high-redshift changing-look quasars by Ross, Nicholas P, Graham, Matthew J, Calderone, Giorgio, Ford, K E Saavik, McKernan, Barry, Stern, Daniel

“…ABSTRACT We report on three redshift z > 2 quasars with dramatic changes in their C iv emission lines, the first sample of changing-look quasars (CLQs) at high…”
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LIGO tells us LINERs are not optically thick RIAFs by Ford, K E Saavik, McKernan, B

“…ABSTRACT Low ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs) are a heterogeneous collection of up to one-third of galactic nuclei in the local Universe. It…”
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Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Nervous System by Hayashi, Yasunori, Ford, Lenzie K, Fioriti, Luana, McGurk, Leeanne, Zhang, Mingjie

“…Molecules within cells are segregated into functional domains to form various organelles. While some of those organelles are delimited by lipid membranes…”
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