3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Feeding The Little Monster: An Accreting Intermediate-Mass Black Hole In A Minor Merger Secondary Galaxy
Marko Mićić, Julia St. Pierre
We report the discovery of a luminous supersoft X-ray source associated with the secondary galaxy in a 10:1 minor merger at =0.216. We identified the system in the 3D-HST survey…
astro-ph.HE2026
Minor Merger, Major Growth: An Overmassive, Highly Accreting Black Hole Powering a Secondary AGN In a Cosmic Noon Minor Merger
Marko Mićić
We report the discovery of a spectroscopically confirmed z = 1.824 minor merger with a mass ratio of ~35:1 in which the secondary (smaller) galaxy hosts a luminous AGN. The system…
astro-ph.GA2024
Low-Mass Galaxy Interactions Trigger Black Hole Activity
Marko Mićić, Jimmy A. Irwin, Preethi Nair +3
The existence of high- over-massive supermassive black holes represents a major conundrum in our understanding of black hole evolution. In this paper, we probe from the observat…