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20172025
most citedThe Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

681 citations · 970 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Recoiling Black Hole Candidates from Spatially Offset Broad Emission Lines in MaNGA

R. Scott Barrows, Julia M. Comerford, James Negus +1

From the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we identify 14 off-nuclear broad (FWHM>1000 km/s) Halpha and/or Hbeta emission line sources that indica…

astro-ph.GA2025

Molecular Gas in Major Mergers Hosting Dual and Single AGN at <10 kpc Nuclear Separations

Makoto A. Johnstone, Ezequiel Treister, Franz E. Bauer +24

We present high-resolution (50100 pc) Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO(2-1) or CO(1-0) emission in seven local ( 0.05)…

astro-ph.GA2025

High-Resolution Optical IFU Spectroscopy of the Complex Galaxy Merger II Zw 096

C. Riesco, E. Treister, G. Venturi +20

Luminous and Ultra-luminous IR galaxies ((U)LIRGs) are critical for investigating feedback mechanisms due to a combination of intense star formation (SF) episodes and active galact…

astro-ph.GA2025

A High Resolution Search for Dual AGN Candidates in Mergers: A Pre-Selection Strategy using Keck AO

Camilo Vazquez, S. Satyapal, G. Canalizo +20

Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxy mergers with separations 1 kpc are crucial to our understanding of SMBH growth, galaxy evolution, and SMBH binary evolution…

astro-ph.HE2024

Chandra Discovery of a Candidate Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source in MCG+11-11-032

Adi Foord, Francesca Civano, Julia M. Comerford +9

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of MCG+11-11-032, a nearby AGN with the unique classification of both a binary and a dual AGN candidate. With new Chandra observations we aim…

astro-ph.GA2024

GOALS-JWST: The Warm Molecular Outflows of the Merging Starburst Galaxy NGC 3256

Thomas Bohn, Hanae Inami, Aditya Togi +26

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Integral Field Spectrograph observations of NGC 3256, a local infrared-luminous late-stage merging system with two nuclei roughly 1$\;\…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

GOALS-JWST: Small neutral grains and enhanced 3.3 micron PAH emission in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469

Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Lee Armus, Marina Bianchin +36

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) integral-field spectroscopy of the nearby luminous infrared galaxy, NGC 7469. We take advantage of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 48 cited

UGC 4211: A Confirmed Dual Active Galactic Nucleus in the Local Universe at 230 pc Nuclear Separation

Michael J. Koss, Ezequiel Treister, Darshan Kakkad +23

We present multi-wavelength high-spatial resolution (~0.1'', 70 pc) observations of UGC 4211 at z=0.03474, a late-stage major galaxy merger at the closest nuclear separation yet fo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 27 cited

GOALS-JWST: Pulling Back the Curtain on the AGN and Star Formation in VV 114

J. Rich, S. Aalto, A. S. Evans +33

We present results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Director's Discretionary Time Early Release Science (ERS) program 1328 targeting the nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 41 cited

GOALS-JWST: Resolving the Circumnuclear Gas Dynamics in NGC 7469 in the Mid-Infrared

Vivian U, Thomas Lai, Marina Bianchin +35

The nearby, luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) NGC 7469 hosts a Seyfert nucleus with a circumnuclear star-forming ring and is thus the ideal local laboratory for investigating the sta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 69 cited

GOALS-JWST: Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleus of NGC 7469

L. Armus, T. Lai, V. U +32

We present mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nucleus of the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469 taken with the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as p…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 40 cited

The Molecular Gas in the NGC 6240 Merging Galaxy System at the Highest Spatial Resolution

E. Treister, H. Messias, G. C. Privon +19

We present the highest resolution --- 15 pc (0.03'') --- ALMA CO(2-1) line emission and 1.3mm continuum maps, tracers of the molecular gas and dust, respectively, in the nea…

astro-ph.GA2019

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Black Hole Growth in Mergers and Dual AGN

Michael Koss, Vivian U, Edmund Hodges-Kluck +13

Hierarchical models of galaxy formation predict that galaxy mergers represent a significant transitional stage of rapid supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. Yet, the connection b…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 23 cited

Optical, near-IR and sub-mm IFU Observations of the nearby dual AGN Mrk 463

E. Treister, G. C. Privon, L. F. Sartori +14

We present optical and near-IR Integral Field Unit (IFU) and ALMA band 6 observations of the nearby dual Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Mrk 463. At a distance of 210 Mpc, and a nucle…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VII. Understanding the UV anomaly in NGC 5548 with X-Ray Spectroscopy

S. Mathur, A. Gupta, K. Page +147

During the Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project (STORM) observations of NGC 5548, the continuum and emission-line variability became de-correlated during the s…