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Latent Stochastic Differential Equations for Modeling Quasar Variability and Inferring Black Hole Properties
Joshua Fagin, Ji Won Park, Henry Best +6
Quasars are bright and unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) thought to be powered by the accretion of matter around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The temp…
Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational Microlensing
Henry Best, Joshua Fagin, Georgios Vernardos +1
In the near future, wide field surveys will discover 1000's of new strongly lensed quasars, and these will be monitored with unprecedented cadence by the Legacy Survey of Space and…
Determining Quasar Orientation
Suk Yee Yong, Rachel L. Webster, Anthea L. King +3
Since the discovery of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their subclasses, a unification scheme of AGN has been long sought. Orientation-based unified models predict that some of th…
The Most Powerful Lenses in the Universe: Quasar Microlensing as a Probe of the Lensing Galaxy
David Pooley, Timo Anguita, Saloni Bhatiani +14
Optical and X-ray observations of strongly gravitationally lensed quasars (especially when four separate images of the quasar are produced) determine not only the amount of matter…
Astro2020 Science White Paper - Quasar Microlensing: Revolutionizing our Understanding of Quasar Structure and Dynamics
Leonidas Moustakas, Matthew O'Dowd, Timo Anguita +20
Microlensing by stars within distant galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses of multiply-imaged quasars, provides a unique and direct measurement of the internal structure o…
HST imaging of four gravitationally lensed quasars
Nicholas F. Bate, Georgios Vernardos, Matthew J. O'Dowd +7
We present new HST WFPC3 imaging of four gravitationally lensed quasars: MG 0414+0534; RXJ 0911+0551; B 1422+231; WFI J2026-4536. In three of these systems we detect wavelength-dep…
Using the Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars to Illuminate Quasar Structure
Suk Yee Yong, Anthea L. King, Rachel L. Webster +3
A key to understanding quasar unification paradigms is the emission properties of broad absorption line quasars (BALQs). The fact that only a small fraction of quasar spectra exhib…
The Kinematics of Quasar Broad Emission Line Regions Using a Disk-wind Model
Suk Yee Yong, Rachel L. Webster, Anthea L. King +3
The structure and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) in quasars are still not well established. One popular BLR model is the disk-wind model that offers a geometric unificat…
The Intrinsic Far-UV Spectrum of B1422+231
M. O'Dowd, N. F. Bate, R. L. Webster +3
We present new spectroscopy of the z=3.62 gravitationally lensed quasar B1422+117 from the Gemini North GMOS integral field spectrograph. We observe significant differential magnif…
Microlensing Constraints on Broad Absorption and Emission Line Flows in the Quasar H1413+117
Matthew J. O'Dowd, Nicholas F. Bate, Rachel L. Webster +2
We present new integral field spectroscopy of the gravitationally lensed broad absorption line (BAL) quasar H1413+117, covering the ultraviolet to visible rest-frame spectral range…
An OSIRIS study of the gas kinematics in a sample of UV-selected galaxies: Evidence of "Hot and Bothered" starbursts in the local Universe
Antara R. Basu-Zych, Thiago S. Goncalves, Roderik Overzier +6
We present data from Integral Field Spectroscopy for 3 supercompact UV-Luminous Galaxies (ScUVLGs). As nearby (z~0.2), compact (R_50~1-2 kpc), bright Paschen-alpha sources, with un…