7 papers
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…
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…
A Stellar Dynamical Mass for the Central Black Hole in MCG06-30-15
Nabanita Das, Misty C. Bentz, Eugene Vasiliev +4
We present the stellar dynamical mass of the central black hole in the nearby Seyfert galaxy MCG06-30-15 using the Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method implemented in the op…
A JWST View of the Overmassive Black Hole in NGC 4486B
Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Matthew A. Taylor, Monica Valluri +19
We present a new stellar dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the compact elliptical galaxy NGC 4486B, based on integral field spectroscopy with JWST/NIRS…
Minimum-entropy constraints on galactic potentials
Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Monica Valluri, Eugene Vasiliev +3
A tracer sample in a gravitational potential, starting from a generic initial condition, phase-mixes towards a stationary state. This evolution is accompanied by an entropy increas…
GD-1 Stellar Stream and Cocoon in the DESI Early Data Release
Monica Valluri, Parker Fagrelius, Sergey. E. Koposov +49
We present 115 new spectroscopically identified members of the GD-1 tidal stream observed with the 5000-fiber Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We confirm the existence…