7 papers
SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package
Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45
Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…
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…
Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH
Jake Postiglione, K. E. Saavik Ford, Henry Best +2
Binary black holes (BBH) are expected to form and merge in active galactic nuclei (AGN), deep in the potential well of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), from populations that exist…
Joint Modeling of Quasar Variability and Accretion Disk Reprocessing using Latent Stochastic Differential Equations
Joshua Fagin, James Hung-Hsu Chan, Henry Best +5
Quasars are bright active galactic nuclei powered by the accretion of matter around supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. Their stochastic brightness variability depe…
Analyzing Line-of-sight selection biases in galaxy-scale strong lensing with external convergence and shear
Xianzhe TZ Tang, Simon Birrer, Anowar J. Shajib +3
The upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will dramatically increase the number of strong gravitational lensing systems, requiring precise modeling…
Amoeba: An AGN Model of Optical Emissions Beyond steady-state Accretion discs
Henry Best, Matthew O'Dowd, Joshua Fagin +2
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are objects located in the heart of galaxies which emit powerful and complex radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Understanding AGN has becom…