8 papers
The Role of Baryonic and Dark Matter in Bar Kinematics
Tobias Géron, Kai Zhu, Steph Campbell +3
Simulations predict that bars in galaxies should slow down over time. This is often attributed to the exchange of angular momentum between the bar and other regions of the galaxy,…
JWST Observations of the Double Nucleus in NGC 4486B: Possible Evidence for a Recent Binary SMBH Merger and Recoil
Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Monica Valluri, Shashank Dattathri +19
A recent study of the compact elliptical galaxy NGC 4486B using JWST-NIRSpec IFU kinematics confirmed a supermassive black hole (SMBH) of mass (~8% of…
Orbit-based structural decomposition and stellar population recovery for edge-on barred galaxies
Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh +3
In our previous paper, we developed an orbit-superposition method for edge-on barred galaxies and constructed a set of dynamical models based on different mock observations of thre…
AT2022zod: An Unusual Tidal Disruption Event in an Elliptical Galaxy at Redshift 0.11
Kristen C. Dage, Phelipe Darc, Thallis Pessi +16
Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have long been hypothesized as valuable indicators of black holes, offering insight into their demographics and behaviour out to high redshift. TDEs…
A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU
Matthew A. Taylor, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Solveig Thompson +18
The integral-field unit mode of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec+IFU) mounted on the James Webb Space Telescope has now enabled kinematic studies of smaller and less massive…
Recovering the pattern speeds of edge-on barred galaxies via an orbit-superposition method
Yunpeng Jin, Ling Zhu, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh +4
We developed an orbit-superposition method for edge-on barred galaxies and evaluated its capability to recover the bar pattern speed . We selected three simulated galaxies…