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most citedGetting More Out of Black Hole Superradiance: a Statistically Rigorous Approach to Ultralight Boson Constraints from Black Hole Spin Measurements

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astro-ph.HE2026

Chandra X-ray Spectral Evidence of the Dual AGN Nature of the Gravitational lens MG B2016+112 at z=3.273 with 175 pc separation

Daniel A. Schwartz, Julia M. Sisk-Reynes, Anna Barnacka

We use a new 175 ks Chandra X-ray observation of the z=3.273 radio-loud gravitational lens system MG B2016+112 to present definitive X-ray spectral evidence that it contains a dual…

astro-ph.GA2026

MUSE spectroscopy of the compact dual AGN in the radio-loud gravitational lens MG B2016+112

Jianghao Huyan, Júlia M. Sisk-Reynés, Daniel A. Schwartz +4

Dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) are unique laboratories for studying how galaxy mergers trigger accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, at redshifts , only…

astro-ph.GA2026

Speeding up Gravitational Lens Mass Models with Machine Learning: Applications in X-ray Astronomy

Alex Ostridge, Rafael Martínez-Galarza, Júlia M. Sisk-Reynés +2

Multi-wavelength observations of quadruply lensed quasars constitute a powerful probe of cosmology, dark matter substructure along the line of sight, and the structure of X-ray emi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spin Demographics of Active Supermassive Black Holes: Updated Estimates from X-ray reflection and Future opportunities

Julia M. Sisk-Reynes, Christopher S. Reynolds, James H. Matthews +5

Understanding the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) requires observational constraints on how their angular momentum (or spin) varies with mass, since the relative importa…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Evidence for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Martin G. H. Krause, Martin A. Bourne, Silke Britzen +10

We review the state of the evidence for the existence and observational appearance of supermassive black hole binaries. Such objects are expected from standard hierarchical galaxy…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…

astro-ph.HE2025

Determining the spatial origin of X-ray and optical emission in the strongly lensed radio-quiet quasar GraL J065904.1+162909 to hundreds of parsecs

Julia Sisk-Reynes, Daniel Schwartz, Anna Barnacka +2

We perform milliarcsecond X-ray astrometry of the quadruply lensed radio-quiet quasar GraL J065904.1+162909 (J0659). This quasar is lensed into four images and was disc…

hep-ph2024★ 11 cited

Getting More Out of Black Hole Superradiance: a Statistically Rigorous Approach to Ultralight Boson Constraints from Black Hole Spin Measurements

Sebastian Hoof, David J. E. Marsh, Júlia Sisk-Reynés +2

Black hole (BH) superradiance can provide strong constraints on the properties of ultralight bosons (ULBs). While most of the previous work has focused on the theoretical predictio…

astro-ph.HE2023

Current and Future constraints on Very-Light Axion-Like Particles from X-ray observations of cluster-hosted Active Galaxies

Julia M. Sisk-Reynes, Christopher S. Reynolds, James H. Matthews

We discuss our recent constraints on the coupling of Very-Light Axion-Like Particles (of masses ) to electromagnetism from observations of the…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Future X-ray Observatories: Projected Constraints on Very-Light Axion-Like Particles with and

Júlia Sisk-Reynés, Christopher S. Reynolds, Michael L. Parker +2

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and a generic prediction of some string theories. X-ray observations of bright A…

astro-ph.HE2022

Evidence for a moderate spin from X-ray reflection of the high-mass supermassive black hole in the cluster-hosted quasar H1821+643

Júlia Sisk-Reynés, Christopher S. Reynolds, James H. Matthews +1

We present an analysis of deep Low-Energy and High-Energy Transmission Grating archival observations of the extraordinarily luminous radio-quiet quasar H1821+643, hosted…

astro-ph.HE2022

How do Magnetic Field Models Affect Astrophysical Limits on Light Axion-like Particles? An X-ray Case Study with NGC 1275

James H. Matthews, Christopher S. Reynolds, M. C. David Marsh +2

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a well-motivated extension to the standard model of particle physics, and X-ray observations of cluster-hosted AGN currently place the most stringen…