The hubble constant from infrared surface brightness fluctuation distances

JP Blakeslee, JB Jensen, CP Ma… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a measurement of the Hubble constant H 0 from surface brightness fluctuation
(SBF) distances for 63 bright, mainly early-type galaxies out to 100 Mpc observed with the …

Is every strong lens model unhappy in its own way? Uniform modelling of a sample of 13 quadruply+ imaged quasars

AJ Shajib, S Birrer, T Treu, MW Auger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Strong-gravitational lens systems with quadruply imaged quasars (quads) are unique
probes to address several fundamental problems in cosmology and astrophysics. Although …

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

BD Boizelle, JL Walsh, AJ Barth, DA Buote… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 5 and
Cycle 6 observations of CO (2− 1) and CO (3− 2) emission at 0 farcs 2− 0 farcs 3 resolution …

Comparing Globular Cluster System Properties with Host Galaxy Environment

K Hartman, WE Harris, JP Blakeslee… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry in the optical (F475X) and near-
infrared (F110W) bands of the globular cluster (GC) systems of the inner halos of a sample …

The MASSIVE survey–XIX. Molecular gas measurements of the supermassive black hole masses in the elliptical galaxies NGC 1684 and NGC 0997

P Dominiak, M Bureau, TA Davis, CP Ma… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured by observing their dynamical
effects on tracers, such as molecular gas. We present high angular resolution Atacama …

Scanning for dark matter subhaloes in Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 54 strong lenses

JW Nightingale, Q He, X Cao… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The cold dark matter (DM) model predicts that every galaxy contains thousands of DM
subhaloes; almost all other DM models include a physical process that smooths away the …

Big Galaxies and Big Black Holes: The Massive Ends of the Local Stellar and Black Hole Mass Functions and the Implications for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

ER Liepold, CP Ma - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We construct the z= 0 galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) by combining the GSMF at stellar
masses M*≲ 10 11.3 M⊙ from the census study of Leja et al. and the GSMF of massive …

Triaxial Orbit-based Dynamical Modeling of Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes and an Application to Massive Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1453

ME Quenneville, ER Liepold, CP Ma - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Most stellar-dynamical determinations of the masses of nearby supermassive black holes
(SMBHs) have been obtained with the orbit superposition technique under the assumption …

Galaxy structure with strong gravitational lensing: decomposing the internal mass distribution of massive elliptical galaxies

JW Nightingale, RJ Massey, DR Harvey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate how strong gravitational lensing can test contemporary models of massive
elliptical (ME) galaxy formation, by combining a traditional decomposition of their visible …

Very large array radio study of a sample of nearby X-ray and optically bright early-type galaxies

R Grossová, N Werner, F Massaro… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Many massive early-type galaxies host central radio sources and hot X-ray atmospheres
indicating the presence of radio-mechanical active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. The …