This project is in collaboration with Dr. Allison Kirkpatrick at the University of Kansas, and Dr. Brandon Coleman, now a postdoc at NASA Goddard.

Cold quasars define a new evolutionary time period within black hole evolution that has never been seen before. My paper details the specifics of the supermassive black holes powering these quasars are extremely overmassive, and are growing with the stellar population of the galaxy.

This project was in collaboration with Dr. James (Jim) Braatz at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Did you know that there is sometimes water vapor orbiting around active supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies? We can use these disks of water to actually measure the expansion rate of the universe! However, they are very hard to detect. My paper details a pipeline that aims to find hidden water vapor disk emission within spectra from the Green Bank Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)

This project is in collaboration with Dr. Nahum Arav and his quasar outflow research group at Virginia Tech.

Quasars are extremely luminous centers of galaxies, that are powered by active supermassive black holes. These systems are capable of ejecting massive amounts of energy into the galaxy it resides in. Dr. Arav’s group aims to analyze these obejcts and test their effects on the growth of the galaxy. In my undergraduates years, I combed thorugh ~600 spectra searching for quasar outflows, and one of the ones I confirmed is detailed in this paper.