Publications (19)
Nuclear Activity in the Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxy SDSS J0944-0038: A Glimpse into the Primordial Universe
Michael Reefe, Shobita Satyapal, Remington O. Sexton +11
Local low metallicity dwarf galaxies are relics of the early universe and hold clues into the origins of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In recent work, coronal lines have been u…
TOI-431/HIP 26013: a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting a bright, early K dwarf, with a third RV planet
Ares Osborn, David J. Armstrong, Bryson Cale +125
We present the bright (V), multi-planet system TOI-431, characterised with photometry and radial velocities. We estimate the stellar rotation period to be $30.5 \pm…
BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Morphology and thermodynamics
Vieri Cammelli, Massimo Gaspari, Olmo Piana +11
How mechanical AGN feedback couples to multiphase condensation across scales remains a problem in galaxy groups and clusters. It is unclear how jets reshape the chaotic cold accret…
JWST reveals how black holes are fed: kiloparsec-scale multiphase filaments feed sub-kiloparsec circumnuclear disks
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Hyunseop Choi, Minghao Guo +35
The Centaurus cluster is one of the most important archetypes of radio-mode AGN feedback, with its central galaxy, NGC 4696, launching powerful jets that inflate X-ray cavities and…
Flares, Rotation, and Planets of the AU Mic System from TESS Observations
Emily A. Gilbert, Thomas Barclay, Elisa V. Quintana +20
AU Mic is a young (24 Myr), pre-Main Sequence M~dwarf star that was observed in the first month of science observations of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) an…
Mapping gas accretion and stellar kinematics to sub-kiloparsec scales in NGC 4696 with JWST/NIRSpec
Mathieu Marquis, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Olivia Pereira +35
We present JWST/NIRSpec IFU spectroscopy of the central pc () of NGC 4696, the BCG in the Centaurus cluster. Leveraging the (…
Cold Gas and Star Formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST
Michael Reefe, Michael McDonald, Marios Chatzikos +16
We present integral field unit observations of the Phoenix Cluster with the JWST Mid-infrared Instrument's Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MIRI/MRS). We focus this study on the mol…
An asynchronous object-oriented approach to the automation of the 0.8-meter George Mason University campus telescope in Python
Michael Reefe, Owen Alfaro, Shawn Foster +22
We present a unique implementation of Python coding in an asynchronous object-oriented programming (OOP) framework to fully automate the process of collecting data with the George…
The CLASS Quasar Catalog: Coronal Line Activity in Type 1 SDSS Quasars
Sara Doan, Shobita Satyapal, Michael Reefe +7
We conduct the first systematic survey of a total of eleven optical coronal lines in the spectra of a large sample of low redshift (z < 0.8) Type 1 quasars observed by the Sloan Di…
An Increase in the Prevalence of Ionized Outflows in Galaxies with Coronal Line Emission: Feedback in Action?
William Matzko, Shobita Satyapal, Michael Reefe +3
Coronal lines (CLs), which arise from collisionally excited forbidden transitions from highly ionized species, are a powerful diagnostic tool in uncovering active galactic nuclei (…
The Magellan-TESS Survey I: Survey Description and Mid-Survey Results
Johanna Teske, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Angie Wolfgang +66
revealed that roughly one-third of Sun-like stars host planets orbiting within 100 days and between the size of Earth and Neptune. How do these planets form, what are they…
BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Variability and kinematics
Vieri Cammelli, Massimo Gaspari, Filippo Barbani +10
Chaotic cold accretion (CCA) predicts that supermassive black holes are fed by multiphase clouds condensing from turbulent hot atmospheres. In jet-regulated systems cold gas must a…
Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT 'EM) Survey: III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-Transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010
Christopher R. Mann, Paul A. Dalba, David Lafrenière +48
Large-scale exoplanet surveys like the TESS mission are powerful tools for discovering large numbers of exoplanet candidates. Single-transit events are commonplace within the resul…
CLASS Survey Description: Coronal Line Needles in the SDSS Haystack
Michael Reefe, Remington O. Sexton, Sara M. Doan +3
Coronal lines are a powerful, yet poorly understood, tool to identify and characterize Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). There have been few large scale surveys of coronal lines in th…
Diving Beneath the Sea of Stellar Activity: Chromatic Radial Velocities of the Young AU Mic Planetary System
Bryson Cale, Michael Reefe, Peter Plavchan +52
We present updated radial-velocity (RV) analyses of the AU Mic system. AU Mic is a young (22 Myr) early M dwarf known to host two transiting planets - days, $R_{b}=…
A Kiloparsec-Scale Stellar Cavity in the Center of Abell402-BCG May be Caused by Dynamic Interactions with an Ultramassive Black Hole
Michael McDonald, Gourav Khullar, David Lagattuta +18
We present new observations from JWST NIRCam that reveal a striking kpc-wide cavity in the stellar distribution of the central galaxy in the cluster Abell402. Supporting data from…
Directly Imaging the Cooling Flow in the Phoenix Cluster
Michael Reefe, Michael McDonald, Marios Chatzikos +14
In the centers of many galaxy clusters, the hot (10 K) intracluster medium (ICM) can become dense enough that it should cool on short timescales. However, the low measure…
CLASS: Coronal Line Activity Spectroscopic Survey
Michael Reefe, Shobita Satyapal, Remington O. Sexton +3
We conduct the first systematic survey of a comprehensive set of the twenty optical coronal lines in the spectra of nearly 1 million galaxies observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Surv…
The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets
Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Joel D. Hartman +83
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting ho…