News – Page 2 – Kayhan Gultekin

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Congratulations to Adi Foord!

Some very, very belated congratulations to Adi Foord for accepting the Porat Fellowship at KIPAC / Stanford University! It is very well deserved and we are all thrilled for her success. Just that pesky PhD defense to deal with….

Cover of the LISA proposal document showing a representation of the triangular pattern of the planned LISA spacecraft with Earth in the background and a starry field in the far background. The title reads "LISA: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna". The subtitle is "A proposal in response to the ESA call for L3 mission concepts" At the bottom reads: "Lead Proposer: Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann"

NASA LISA Study Team

Happy to announce that I was just selected as a member of the NLST, which stands for NASA (which stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration) LISA (which stands for Laser Space Interferometer Antenna) Study Team! The NLST is charged as proxies for the future LISA user community in the US, to provide scientific analysis […]

Introducing BAYMAX

Adi Foord has a new paper out for the group on a dual AGN candidate that turns out not to be a dual AGN. It is a single AGN, despite appearances to the eye. We know this because of the code that Adi developed, which we call BAYMAX (Bayesian AnalYsis of Multiple AGN in X-rays). […]

Against a black background, a red-orange ring with an unmistakeable dark center. The ring is asymmetrically brighter on the bottom half than the top.

Shadow on the sky

I congratulate my Event Horizon Telescope colleagues on an amazing achievement. What an amazing image of the shadow of the black hole in M87. The only way that the shadow in M87 could have been resolved by EHT is if we were right in our mass determination in Gebhardt et al. (2011). Our stellar dynamical […]

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Prof. Runnoe!

Congratulations to Jessie Runnoe on accepting a tenure-track job at Vanderbilt University!

Figure showing log of flux density in Jy as a function of log of frequency in MHz. The y-axis ranges from -4 to 1. The x-axis ranges from 3.0 to 4.75. The data from x = 3.0 to 3.505 are flat at about y = 0. The data from x = 3.505 to 4.6 are going down. The legend indicates that the source is IC 1459, that the low-frequency spectral index is -0.08 +/- 0.08, the high-frequency spectral index is 0.73 +/- 0.01, and the log of the turnover frequency is 3.55 +/- 0.022.

Turnover

Gültekin group alum Erica Hammerstein just had a paper accepted to ApJ and no up on arXiv. Check it out on the Turnover Frequency Research Page!

Graph with x-axis labeled 1.09 log(L_R / 10^38 erg / s) -0.59 log(L_X / 10^40 erg / s) and y-axis labeled log(M/M_solar). There is a legend in the top left indicated that red circles are AGN, red X's are Seyferts, blue squares are L/H XRBs, and blue triangles are I/HS XRBs. There are a large number of partially transparent filled shapes overplotted on each other with opaque unfilled symbols plotted on top. On the upper right are red circles, some with Xs in them. In the bottom left, are blue squares and triangles. A grey line with grey shaded region around it goes through most of the points.

It’s all about the fundamentals

It has been a long slog, but our Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Accretion paper has finally been published. Read about it at the Fundamental Plane Research Project page. Also, make sure to check out the interactive 3D visualization.

I am now a NANOGrav associate member!

I am delighted to announce that I am now an associate member of the NANOGrav collaboration! As they say on their webpage, “NANOGrav (the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves) is a collaboration of scientists in the United States and Canada working to detect low-frequency gravitational waves and characterize the low-frequency universe in order to […]

Welcome to the new page

The new page is now up and running. Actually, it has been up and running for a while, but I haven’t been able to Once I have enough content to keep the News page from looking naked, I’ll delete the old posts. You can ignore them for now.