Publications (10)
Unraveling the Nature of the Nuclear Transient AT2020adpi
Paarmita Pandey, Jason Hinkle, Christopher Kochanek +13
Transient events associated with supermassive black holes provide rare opportunities to study accretion and the environments of supermassive black holes. We present a multiwaveleng…
Linking stellar populations to HII regions across nearby galaxies. II. Infrared Reprocessed and UV Direct Radiation Pressure in HII Regions
Debosmita Pathak, Adam Leroy, Todd Thompson +27
Radiation pressure is a key mechanism by which stellar feedback disrupts molecular clouds and drives HII region expansion. This includes direct radiation pressure exerted by UV pho…
Birth of a Be star: an APOGEE search for Be stars forming through binary mass transfer
Kareem El-Badry, Charlie Conroy, Eliot Quataert +7
Motivated by recent suggestions that many Be stars form through binary mass transfer, we searched the APOGEE survey for Be stars with bloated, stripped companions. From a well-defi…
The AGN Optical Variability Fundamental Plane
Ashley Tarrant, Jason Hinkle, Benjamin Shappee +10
We investigate the relationship between AGN optical variability timescales, amplitudes, and supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses using homogeneous light curves from the All-Sky Au…
The Small Scatter in BH-Host Correlations & The Case for Self-Regulated BH Growth
Philip F. Hopkins, Norman Murray, Todd Thompson
Supermassive black holes (BHs) obey tight scaling relations between their mass and their host galaxy properties such as total stellar mass, velocity dispersion, and potential well…
Nucleosynthesis in Outflows from the Inner Regions of Collapsars
Jason Pruet, Todd Thompson, R. D. Hoffman
We consider nucleosynthesis in outflows originating from the inner regions of viscous accretion disks formed after the collapse of a rotating massive star. We show that wind-like o…