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most citedBlack Hole Mass Measurements of Radio Galaxies NGC 315 and NGC 4261 Using ALMA CO Observations

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26 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA CO(2-1) Gas Dynamics in NGC 315: A Multi-Method Benchmark for Supermassive Black Hole Mass Measurement

Dieu D. Nguyen, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Hai N. Ngo +11

We present ALMA Cycle~7 \cotwo\ observations of the circumnuclear disk in NGC~315 at an angular resolution of $0\farcs230\times0\farcs175$, improving on past measurements and resol…

astro-ph.GA2026

AGN STORM 2. XII. Ground-Based Optical Photometry and Lag Measurements of Mrk 817

John W. Montano, Aaron J. Barth, Keith Horne +40

We present the ground-based imaging campaign and light curves of Markarian 817 as part of the multiwavelength monitoring program AGN STORM\,2. Observations were carried out over 1.…

astro-ph.SR2025

Near-IR CO and CN in classical Cepheids

Scott G. Call, Thomas Griffith, Eric G. Hintz +4

We present medium resolution near-infrared spectral measurements of the carbon monoxide (CO) and the cyano radical (CN) features in 12 Galactic classical Cepheids. The pulsation pe…

astro-ph.GA2025

AGN STORM 2. XI. Spectroscopic reverberation mapping of the hot dust in Mrk 817

Hermine Landt, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Michael S. Brotherton +41

The AGN Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping 2 (STORM 2) campaign targeted Mrk 817 with intensive multi-wavelength monitoring and found its soft X-ray emission to be s…

astro-ph.GA2025

CO Emission and Absorption-line Survey of the M87 Nucleus Using Archival ALMA Imaging

Benjamin D. Boizelle, Xueyi Li, Nicholas LeVar +5

We present an M87 molecular line search from archival Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) imaging, covering the circumnuclear disk (CND) as well as ionized gas fil…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

AGN STORM 2. VII. A Frequency-resolved Map of the Accretion Disk in Mrk 817: Simultaneous X-ray Reverberation and UVOIR Disk Reprocessing Time Lags

Collin Lewin, Erin Kara, Aaron J. Barth +35

X-ray reverberation mapping is a powerful technique for probing the innermost accretion disk, whereas continuum reverberation mapping in the UV, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) revea…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Modeling ALMA Observations of the Warped Molecular Gas Disk in the Red Nugget Relic Galaxy NGC 384

Jonathan H. Cohn, Maeve Curliss, Jonelle L. Walsh +9

We present 0-resolution CO(21) observations of the circumnuclear gas disk in the local compact galaxy NGC 384 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submill…

astro-ph.GA2024

Circumnuclear Dust in Luminous Early-Type Galaxies -- I. Sample Properties and Stellar Luminosity Models

Jared R. Davidson, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Jonelle L. Walsh +8

Dusty circumnuclear disks (CNDs) in luminous early-type galaxies (ETGs) show regular, dynamically cold molecular gas kinematics. For a growing number of ETGs, Atacama Large Millime…

astro-ph.GA2024

AGN STORM 2: VIII. Investigating the Narrow Absorption Lines in Mrk 817 Using HST-COS Observations

Maryam Dehghanian, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss +39

We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 during an intensive multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign for 16 months. Here, we examine the behavior of narrow UV absorption lin…

astro-ph.GA2024

Gas-dynamical Mass Measurements of the Supermassive Black Holes in the Early-Type Galaxies NGC 4786 and NGC 5193 from ALMA and HST Observations

Kyle M. Kabasares, Jonathan H. Cohn, Aaron J. Barth +10

We present molecular gas-dynamical mass measurements of the central black holes in the giant elliptical galaxies NGC 4786 and NGC 5193, based on CO(21) observations from the Ata…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

ALMA gas-dynamical mass measurement of the supermassive black hole in the red nugget relic galaxy PGC 11179

Jonathan H. Cohn, Maeve Curliss, Jonelle L. Walsh +10

We present 0-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO(21) emission from the circumnuclear gas disk in the red nu…

astro-ph.GA2023

AGN STORM 2: V. Anomalous Behavior of the CIV Light Curve in Mrk 817

Y. Homayouni, Gerard A. Kriss, Gisella De Rosa +49

An intensive reverberation mapping campaign on the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed significant vari…

astro-ph.HE2023

AGN STORM 2. IV. Swift X-ray and ultraviolet/optical monitoring of Mrk 817

Edward M. Cackett, Jonathan Gelbord, Aaron J. Barth +48

The AGN STORM 2 campaign is a large, multiwavelength reverberation mapping project designed to trace out the structure of Mrk 817 from the inner accretion disk to the broad emissio…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

AGN STORM 2. III. A NICER view of the variable X-ray obscurer in Mrk 817

Ethan R. Partington, Edward M. Cackett, Erin Kara +44

The AGN STORM 2 collaboration targeted the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817 for a year-long multiwavelength, coordinated reverberation mapping campaign including HST, Swift, XMM-Newton, NI…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

AGN STORM 2: II. Ultraviolet Observations of Mrk817 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope

Y. Homayouni, Gisella De Rosa, Rachel Plesha +62

We present reverberation mapping measurements for the prominent ultraviolet broad emission lines of the active galactic nucleus Mrk817 using 165 spectra obtained with the Cosmic Or…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Black Hole Mass Measurements of Early-Type Galaxies NGC 1380 and NGC 6861 Through ALMA and HST Observations and Gas-Dynamical Modeling

K. M. Kabasares, A. J. Barth, D. A. Buote +6

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 2 observations of CO(2-1) emission from the circumnuclear disks in two early-type galaxies, NGC 1380 and NGC 68…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 36 cited

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Dynamical Modeling of Velocity-Resolved H\b{eta} Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies

Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu +62

We have modeled the velocity-resolved reverberation response of the H\b{eta} broad emission line in nine Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Lick Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) Monitioring…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Gas inflows in the polar ring of NGC 4111: the birth of an AGN

Gabriel R. Hauschild-Roier, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Richard M. McDermid +14

We have used Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images, SAURON Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) and adaptative optics assisted Gemini NIFS near-infrared K-band IFS to map the stellar an…

astro-ph.GA2021

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-Resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies

Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth, H. Alexander Vogler +61

We carried out spectroscopic monitoring of 21 low-redshift Seyfert 1 galaxies using the Kast double spectrograph on the 3-m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory from April 2016 to M…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 21 cited

An ALMA Gas-dynamical Mass Measurement of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Local Compact Galaxy UGC 2698

Jonathan H. Cohn, Jonelle L. Walsh, Benjamin D. Boizelle +9

We present 0\farcs{14}-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) CO(21) observations of the circumnuclear gas disk in UGC 2698, a local compact galaxy. The…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 65 cited

Black Hole Mass Measurements of Radio Galaxies NGC 315 and NGC 4261 Using ALMA CO Observations

Benjamin D. Boizelle, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth +6

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 5 and Cycle 6 observations of CO(21) and CO(32) emission at 0.2''0.3'' resolution in two radio-bright,…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 46 cited

A Precision Measurement of the Mass of the Black Hole in NGC 3258 from High-Resolution ALMA Observations of its Circumnuclear Disk

Benjamin D. Boizelle, Aaron J. Barth, Jonelle L. Walsh +4

We present resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) CO(21) imaging of the arcsecond-scale ( pc) dusty molecular di…

astro-ph.GA2018

Science with an ngVLA: Precision Gas-dynamical Mass Measurement of Supermassive Black Holes with the ngVLA

Benjamin D. Boizelle, Kristina Nyland, Timothy A. Davis

Emission line observations of circumnuclear gas disks in the ALMA era have begun to resolve molecular gas tracer kinematics near supermassive black holes (BHs), enabling highly pre…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

ALMA Observations of Circumnuclear Disks in Early Type Galaxies: 12CO(2-1) and Continuum Properties

Benjamin D. Boizelle, Aaron J. Barth, Jeremy Darling +4

We present results from an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 2 program to map CO(2-1) emission in nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs) that host circumnuclear…