Contact Information
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
Research Interests
Observational Cosmology
Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Surveys and Time-Domain Science
Research Description
I am an extragalactic observer. I mainly work on a range of topics centered on quasars and supermassive black holes (SMBHs), to understand the physics and evolution of these exotic objects in the cosmological context. Specifically, I work on the large-scale structure traced by quasars, the demography of SMBHs as a function of cosmic time, the phenomenology and physics of black hole accretion, and the co-evolution of black holes and host galaxies. I use multi-wavelength survey data and dedicated observing programs to carry out these studies.
Education
Astronomy, PHD, Princeton University
Courses Taught
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
External Links
Recent Publications
Abdurro'Uf, Accetta, K., Aerts, C., Silva Aguirre, V., Ahumada, R., Ajgaonkar, N., Filiz Ak, N., Alam, S., Allende Prieto, C., Almeida, A., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Andrews, B. H., Anguiano, B., Aquino-Ortíz, E., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Argudo-Fernández, M., Ata, M., Aubert, M., ... Zhu, K. (2022). The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 259(2), [35]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac4414
Chen, Y. C., Hwang, H. C., Shen, Y., Liu, X., Zakamska, N. L., Yang, Q., & Li, J. I. (2022). Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual Subkiloparsec AGN (VODKA): Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Double Quasars. Astrophysical Journal, 925(2), [162]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac401b
Homayouni, Y., Sturm, M. R., Trump, J. R., Horne, K., Grier, C. J., Shen, Y., Brandt, W. N., Alvarez, G. F., Hall, P. B., Ho, L. C., Li, J. I. H., Sun, M., & Schneider, D. P. (2022). The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: UV-Optical Accretion Disk Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope. Astrophysical Journal, 926(2), [225]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac478b
Petric, A., Lacy, M., Juneau, S., Shen, Y., Fan, X., Flagey, N., Gordon, Y., Haggard, D., Hall, P. B., Hathi, N., Ilić, D., Lagos, C. D. P., Liu, X., O'Dea, C., Popović, L., Sheinis, A., Wang, Y., & Xue, Y. (2022). Obscured active galactic nuclei and the need for optical to near-infrared, massively multiplexed, spectroscopic facilities. Astronomische Nachrichten, 343(1-2), [e210053]. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.20210053
Wang, S., Jiang, L., Shen, Y., Ho, L. C., Vestergaard, M., Bañados, E., Willott, C. J., Wu, J., Zou, S., Yang, J., Wang, F., Fan, X., & Wu, X. B. (2022). Metallicity in Quasar Broad-line Regions at Redshift ∼6. Astrophysical Journal, 925(2), [121]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3a69
