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A First Close Look at the Balmer-edge Behavior of the Quasar Big Blue Bump
Makoto Kishimoto, Robert Antonucci, Omer Blaes
We have found for the first time a Balmer edge feature in the Big Blue Bump emission of a quasar. The feature is seen in the polarized flux spectrum of the quasar, where all the em…
Using Multiwavelength Observations to Determine the Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate in the Type 1 Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548
James Chiang, Omer Blaes
We model the spectral energy distribution of the type 1 Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548, fitting data from simultaneous optical, UV, and X-ray monitoring observations. We assume a geometry…
Physics Fundamentals of Luminous Accretion Disks Around Black Holes
O. M. Blaes
These lectures provide an overview of the theory of accretion disks with application to bright sources containing black holes. I focus on the fundamental physics of these flows, st…
The Kozai Mechanism and the Evolution of Binary Supermassive Black Holes
Omer Blaes, Man Hoi Lee, Aristotle Socrates
We consider the dynamical evolution of bound, hierarchical triples of supermassive black holes that might be formed in the nuclei of galaxies undergoing sequential mergers. The tid…