7 papers
Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual Subkiloparsec AGN (VODKA): Three Quadruply Lensed Quasars at Cosmic Noon in HST and JWST
Mingrui Liu, Yu-Ching Chen, Nadia L. Zakamska +7
We present results from imaging observations of three quadruply lensed quasars by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at redshifts , 2.975…
White dwarfs in wide binaries: the strong effects of stellar evolution and mass loss
Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Nadia Zakamska
We examine the statistics of main-sequence / main-sequence, main-sequence / white-dwarf and white-dwarf / white-dwarf wide binaries at 10^2.5-10^4 AU separations in Gaia data. For…
Discovery of a Proto-White Dwarf with a Massive Unseen Companion
Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +8
We report the discovery of SDSS~J022932.28+713002.7, a nascent extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarf (WD) orbiting a massive ( at 2 confidence) companion with a pe…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…
Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual sub-Kpc AGN (VODKA): Long-slit optical spectroscopic follow-up with Gemini/GMOS and HST/STIS
Yu-Ching Chen, Arran C. Gross, Xin Liu +4
High spatial and spectral resolution observations are essential for identifying sub-arcsecond dual and lensed quasars and confirming their redshifts. We present Gemini/GMOS and HST…
VODKA-JWST: Synchronized growth of two SMBHs in a massive gas disk? A 3.8 kpc separation dual quasar at cosmic noon with NIRSpec IFU
Yuzo Ishikawa, Nadia L. Zakamska, Yue Shen +10
The search for dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is of immense interest in modern astrophysics. Galaxy mergers may fuel and produce SMBH pairs. Actively accreting SMBH pairs ar…