Grants / Observing proposals
Supporting grants and telescope time
(As of Sep. 2020)
Grants: $ 5.4M
X-ray Satellites:
Chandra 723 ksec
NuSTAR 680 ksec
Swift 100 ksec
XMM-Newton 1441 ksec
UV/Optical/NIR:
ESO-VLT 420 hrs
HST 134 orbits
Magellan 10 nights
SOAR 10 nights
duPont 10 nights
Palomar 19 nights
Keck 4 nights
Submillimeter/Radio:
APEX CO 275 hrs
ALMA CO 50 hrs
ATCA HI 252 hrs
IRAM 150 hrs
JVLA 82 hrs
Grants
Year | Title | Budget | Objective | PI |
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2020 | STScI/NASA | $ 219k | A NUV Snapshot Survey of the Nearest Luminous AGN | M. Koss |
2020 | SAO | $ 45k | The First High Resolution Glimpse of a Recoling Black Hole | M. Koss |
2020 | ERC | €1680k | Extreme Accretion Modes in BASS Data Release 3* | B. Trakhtenbrot |
2020 | STScI/NASA | $ 114k | The First Glimpse of A Candidate Recoiling Black Hole | M. Koss |
2020 | NASA | $ 58k | Finding All Compton-thick AGN in the Swift BAT 105-month Sky Survey | M. Koss |
2020 | NRF (South Korea) | $ 305k | Optical spectroscopy of the Swift-BAT AGN | K. Oh |
2019 | ISF (Israel) | $ 260k | Super-Eddington AGN in BASS | B. Trakhtenbrot |
2018 | NASA ADAP | $ 639k | BASS Data Release 2 | M. Koss |
2018 | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | $ 156k | Redshifting z<0.3 AGN into the Chandra Deep Fields To Understand Black Hole Growth | M. Koss |
2018 | NASA | $ 54k | Finding Compton-thick AGN Among the Faintest Swift BAT Sources | M. Koss |
2017 | CONYCIT PAI (Chile) | $ 300k | Supermassive black holes and their close environments | C. Ricci |
2017 | NASA | $ 77k | Studying Merger Driven Obscuration in Dual AGN | M. Koss |
2015 | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | $ 122k | Chandra Legacy Survey of Merger Driven AGN Activation in Nearby X-ray Selected AGN | M. Koss |
2015 | NASA ADAP | $ 352k | BASS Data Release 1 | M. Koss |
2015 | SNSF (Switzerland) | $ 224k | BASS Data Release 1 (Postdoc) | M. Koss |
2014 | SNSF (Switzerland) | $ 430k | Ambizione Fellowship for BASS | M. Koss |
Telescope Time
Semester/Period | Telescope | Time | Objective | PI |
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AO-20 | XMM-Newton | 209 ksec | Constraining reflection in Compton-thick AGN | M. Koss |
DDT | Chandra | 30 ksec | The first high resolution glimpse of a recoiling black hole | M. Koss |
Cycle 6 | NuSTAR | 200 ksec | Constraining reflection in the brightest Compton-thick AGN above 10 keV | M. Koss |
Cycle 28 | HST | 124 orbits | A NUV Snapshot Survey of the Nearest Luminous AGN | M. Koss |
AO-19 | XMM-Newton | 252 ksec | Identify Unknown 105-month Swift-BAT sources | M. Koss |
AO-19 | XMM-Newton | 162 ksec | CT-AGN in the 70-month Swift-BAT catalog | M. Koss |
AO-19 | XMM-Newton | 29 ksec | (w/ HST 2 orbits) Studying a recoiling BAT AGN | M. Koss |
AO-16 | Swift | 100 ksec | Joint ALMA/X-ray satellites monitoring of IC4329A | C. Ricci |
AO-19 | XMM-Newton | 170 ksec | (Joint XMM-Newton with ALMA) Joint ALMA/X-ray satellites monitoring of IC4329A | C. Ricci |
2019A | Keck/OSIRIS | 2 nights | BAT kpc mergers | F. Harrison |
Cycle 7 | ALMA | 6 hours | Joint ALMA/X-ray satellites monitoring of IC4329A (highest ALMA resolution) | C. Ricci |
Cycle 7 | ALMA | 21 hours | BASS survey of ~30 nearby radio-quiet AGN at 100GHz (highest ALMA resolution) | C. Ricci |
2019BA | Magellan/MagE | 2 nights | Velocity dispersions of luminous obscured AGN | C. Ricci |
P104 | ESO-VLT/X-shooter | 55 hours | A complete census of black hole masses and accretion rates in nearby powerful obscured AGN | B. Trakhtenbrot |
2019 | Magellan/FIRE | 3 nights | Infrared spectroscopy of peculiar X-ray-selected AGN | M. Baloković |
2019APRS | ATCA | 252 hours | HI-BASS | I. Wong |
2019A | Magellan/FIRE | 1 night | NIR spectra of type 1.9 AGN | F. Ricci |
2019A | SOAR/Goodman | 4 nights | BASS DR2 Spectroscopy | C. Ricci |
2019A,B | Palomar 5m Hale | 5 nights | BASS optical spectroscopy of 70-month and 105-month samples | M. Powell, M. Urry |
2020A | JVLA | 25 hours | 22 GHz imaging survey | K. Smith |
2020A | JVLA | 57 hours | HI/1.4 GHz imaging of 38 BAT AGN | A. Chung |
2018 | Chandra Legacy Survey | 320 ksec | COOL CAT, Chandra Study of Nearby AGN | M. Koss |
P103 | ESO-VLT/X-shooter | 62 hours | BASS BH measurements | B. Trakhtenbrot |
P102 | ESO-VLT/X-shooter | 61 hours | BASS BH measurements | B. Trakhtenbrot |
2018A,B | Palomar 5m Hale | 6 nights | BASS Optical spectroscopy of 70-month and 105-month sample | M. Powell, M. Urry |
AO-17 | XMM-Newton | 103 ksec | Identification of new 105-month sources | M. Koss |
Cycle 4 | NuSTAR | 120 ksec | Compton-thick AGN | M. Koss |
2018A,B | Magellan/FIRE | 2 nights | NIR spectroscopy of type 1.9 AGN | E. Treister |
2018, Cycle6 | ALMA | 31 hours | ALMA-BASS: CND-scale molecular gas survey toward nearby luminous AGNs selected with the Swift-BAT hard X-ray survey | T. Izumi |
P100 | APEX | 50 hours | Molecular gas survey of low redshift BAT AGN (0.01<z<0.05) | B. Trakhtenbrot |
2018B | SOAR/Goodman | 4 night | Velocity dispersions of low redshift BAT AGN | C. Ricci |
2018B | Magellan/MagE | 1 night | Velocity dispersions of luminous BAT AGN | C. Ricci |
2018a | SOAR/Goodman | 2 nights | Velocity dispersions of low redshift BAT AGN | C. Ricci |
AO-16 | XMM-Newton | 100 ksec | Follow-up of CT-AGN from BASS | C. Ricci |
AO-2 | NuSTAR | 215 ksec | Follow-up of CT-AGN from BASS | C. Ricci |
AO-2 | NuSTAR | 30 ksec | Follow-up of a peculiar BASS source | C. Ricci |
P101,P102 | ESO-VLT/VISIR | 75 hours | MIR spectroscopy of a complete sample of BAT AGN | D. Asmus |
2017B | APEX | 25 hours | Molecular gas survey of low redshift BAT AGN (0.01<z<0.05) | E. Treister |
2017 | IRAM | 150 hours | Northern large survey of molecular gas in nearby BAT AGN | T. Shimizu |
P98, P99 | APEX | 150 hours | Molecular gas survey of low redshift BAT AGN (0.01<z<0.05) | M. Koss |
2016B | APEX | 25 hours | Molecular gas survey of low redshift BAT AGN (0.01<z<0.05) | E. Treister |
AO-16 | XMM-Newton | 128 ksec | Unknown 105-month sources | M. Koss |
AO-16 | XMM-Newton | 216 ksec | BAT Mergers | M. Koss |
P101 | ESO-VLT/X-shooter | 29 hours | BASS BH measurements | B. Trakhtenbrot |
2017B | Palomar 5m Hale | 5 nights | BASS optical spectroscopy of 70-month and 105-month sample | M. Powell, M. Urry |
P99 | ESO-VLT/X-shooter | 37 hours | BH of obscured AGN for DR2 | K. Oh |
P99 | ESO-VLT/FORS2 | 31 hours | BH of unobscured AGN for DR2 | K. Oh |
P98 | ESO-VLT/X-shooter | 13 hours | BH of obscured AGN for DR2 | K. Oh |
2016 | Keck OSIRIS | 1 night | Study of kpc mergers in BAT AGN | M. Koss |
P99,P100 | ESO-VLT/VISIR | 111.5 hours | MIR spectroscopy of a complete sample of BAT AGN | D. Asmus |
2016A | APEX | 25 hours | Molecular gas survey of low redshift BAT AGN | E. Treister |
2016A | duPont/B&C | 10 nights | Black hole mass of unobscured AGN for DR2 | C. Ricci |
2016A | Magellan Clay/LDSS3 | 1 night | Redshifts of new 105-month sources | C. Ricci |
P98 | ESO-VLT/VISIR | 56.5 hours | MIR spectroscopy of a complete sample of BAT AGN | D. Asmus |
2015 | Chandra | 413 ksec | Studying a complete sample of BAT mergers | M. Koss |
2015 | NuSTAR | 260 ksec | Studying a complete sample of BAT mergers | M. Koss |
2015 | HST/STIS | 8 orbits | Studying kpc BAT mergers | M. Koss |
2015 | XMM-Newton | 172 ksec | Compton-thick AGN in the 70-month sample | M. Koss |
2015 | NuSTAR | 100 ksec | Compton-thick AGN coordinated | M. Koss |