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…