Grants / Observing proposals
Supporting grants and telescope time
(As of June 2023)
Grants: $ 6.7M
X-ray Satellites:
Chandra 1038 ksec
NuSTAR 880 ksec
Swift 443 ksec
XMM-Newton 2041 ksec
UV/Optical/NIR:
ESO-VLT 742 hrs
HST 524 orbits
Magellan 16 nights
SOAR 12 nights
duPont 10 nights
Hale 27 nights
Keck 12 nights
Gemini 5.5 nights
Submillimeter/Radio:
APEX CO 715 hrs
ALMA CO 159 hrs
ATCA HI 252 hrs
IRAM 150 hrs
JVLA 82 hrs
Grants
| Year | Title | Budget | Objective | PI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | NASA | $ 15k | A Survey of the Most Luminous Hard X-ray Selected Obscured Quasars at z=0.2-0.4 | M. Koss |
| 2022 | SAO | $ 73k | A Deep Resolved Study of CGCG341-006, a 1.5 kpc Nearby Dual AGN | M. Koss |
| 2022 | NASA JPL | $ 92k | Using Variability to Study the Size of the Absorber in Compton thick AGN | M. Koss |
| 2022 | NASA JPL | $ 115k | A NuSTAR Survey of the Most Luminous Hard X-ray Selected Obscured Quasars at z=0.2-0.4 | M. Koss |
| 2022 | NASA | $ 86k | Resolving the AGN Bolometric Emission | M. Koss |
| 2022 | NASA | $ 15k | Constraining Reflection in Compton-thick AGN | M. Koss |
| 2022 | NASA | $ 15k | A Complete Census Compton-thick AGN in the local Universe | M. Koss |
| 2021 | NASA ADAP | $ 857k | Piercing through the Torus: A 15 Year X-ray Variability Survey of BAT AGN | M. Koss |
| 2021 | NASA JPL | $ 29k | An OSIRIS IFU Study of Hidden Nuclear Mergers | M. Koss |
| 2020 | NASA | $ 215k | Quaver: A Pipeline and Legacy Sample for AGN Variability and Accretion Disk Physics | Smith |
| 2020 | NASA JPL | $ 20k | Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Constraining Reflection in the Brightest Compton | M. Koss |
| 2020 | STScI/NASA | $ 219k | A NUV Snapshot Survey of the Nearest Luminous AGN | M. Koss |
| 2020 | STScI/NASA/SAO | $ 159k | The First Glimpse of A Candidate Recoiling 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 | NASA JPL | $ 10k | Using the Spectral Curvature to Find Compton-Thick AGN | M. Koss |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023A | GMVA | 14 hours | Probing the X-ray corona with 100 GHz GMVA observations | C. Ricci |
| 2023B | VLBA | 41 hours | Searching for 'hidden' close binary supermassive black holes in post-mergers | I. Yoon |
| 2023B | VLA | 64 hours | Probing HI gas surrounding BASS AGN host galaxies | J. Kim |
| Cycle 30 | HST | 389 orbits | A blue gap survey of nearby active galaxies | M. Koss |
| C24 | Chandra | 156 ksec | A deep resolved study of CGCG341-006 (with Gemini 2 hours, VLA 1 hour) | M. Koss |
| AO22 | XMM-Newton | 27 ksec | The first XMM obsservations of 230 pc dual AGN | M. Koss |
| AO22 | XMM-Newton | 53 ksec | Probing the Fe K emission of a supermassive black hole binary candidate | T. Liu |
| P110 | VLT/MUSE | 18 hours | Resolved gas kinematics and stellar populations in low luminosity AGN | D. Kakkad |
| P110 | APEX/nFLASH | 150 hours | Tending the fire: completing a legacy survey of molecular gas fueling in powerful nearby AGN | M. Koss |
| 2023A/2022B | Keck/OSIRIS | 2 nights | The final cut: an OSIRIS IFU survey for hidden nuclear mergers | C. M. Urry |
| 2022B | Keck/NIRC | 1 night | The final cut: an AO survey for hidden nuclear mergers | C. M. Urry |
| 2021 | ALMA | 25 hours | Studying the coronal properties of complete volume-limited sample of accreting supermassive black holes | C. Ricci |
| 2021 | ALMA | 15 hours | AGN-galaxy interplay through multiphase outflows and feedback | A. Rojas |
| 2021 | ALMA | 14 hours | Co-spatial gas feeding of SMBHs and remnant SF regions in "IR-pure AGNs | Chen |
| 2021 | ALMA (suppl.) | 55 hours | Molecular Gas Fueling in Powerful AGN | M. Koss |
| AO21 | XMM-Newton | 54 ks | A Survey of the Most Luminous Hard X-ray Selected Obscured Quasars at z=0.2-0.4 | M. Koss |
| AO21 | XMM-Newton | 288 ks | Resolving the AGN Bolometric Emission with XMM and HST | M. Koss |
| AO21 | XMM-Newton | 150 ks | Probing the Fe K emission of a supermassive black hole binary candidate | T. Liu |
| AO21 | XMM-Newton | 108 ks | Quantifying X-Ray Spectral Variability in a New Sample of Changing-State AGN | M. Temple |
| 21B/22A | Gemini/GSAO | 3 nights | Hidden mergers in luminous obscured AGN | E. Treister |
| 2022A | Keck/Osiris | 3 nights | Dynamical Black Hole Masses for a Complete Volume-Limited Hard X-Ray Sample | A. Medling |
| 21B/22A | Keck/Osiris | 2 nights | An OSIRIS IFU Study of Hidden Nuclear Mergers | M. Koss |
| 21B/22A | Keck/NIRC2 | 2 nights | The Final Cut: An AO Survey for Hidden Nuclear Mergers | M. Urry |
| 2021B | Gemini/GSAOI | 2.5 nights | Hidden mergers in luminous obscured AGN | E. Treister |
| 21B/22A | Palomar/Triplespec | 6 nights | NIR Spectroscopy of BAT AGN | M. Balokovic |
| P108/P109 | APEX/nFLASH | 265 hours | Tending the fire: completing a legacy survey of molecular gas fueling in powerful nearby AGN | M. Koss |
| P108/P109 | VLT/X-shooter | 67 hours | A complete census of SMBHs in nearby powerful obscured Swift-BAT AGN | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| 2021A | Hale/Triplespec | 2 nights | Near infrared spectroscopy of peculiar X-ray–selected Active Galactic Nuclei | M. Balokovic |
| NOAO 2021A | SOAR/Goodman | 2 nights | BASS: A nearby census of powerful AGN | M. Koss |
| CNTAC2020A,B | FIRE/Magellan | 4 nights | Peering into the hidden BLR: constraining the virial factor in obscured X-ray selected local AGN | F. Ricci |
| 2021A | Gemini/GSAO | 2 nights | Hidden mergers in luminous obscured AGN | E. Treister |
| P106 | VLT/X-shooter | 39 hours | A complete census of SMBHs in nearby powerful obscured Swift-BAT AGN | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| P106 | APEX/nFLASH | 175 hours | Tending the fire: completing a legacy survey of molecular gas fueling in powerful nearby AGN | M. Koss |
| P105 | VLT/X-shooter | 41 hours | A complete census of SMBHs in nearby powerful obscured Swift-BAT AGN | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| 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 |
| Cycle 17 | Swift | 300 ksec | Swift reverberation mapping of a supermassive black hole binary candidate | T. Liu |
| 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/19B | Keck/OSIRIS | 3 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 | 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 | Hale/Doublespec | 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 |
| 2018B | Keck/Osiris | 1 night | Study of kpc mergers in BAT AGN | F. Harrison |
| P103 | VLT/X-shooter | 62 hours | BASS BH measurements | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| P102 | VLT/X-shooter | 61 hours | BASS BH measurements | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| 2018A,B | Hale/Doublespec | 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 |
| 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/SHFI | 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 | VLT/VISIR | 75 hours | MIR spectroscopy of a complete sample of BAT AGN | D. Asmus |
| 2018A | VLBA | 11 hours | 15 GHz fringe survey to find radio detectable sources | J. Baek |
| 2017B | APEX/SHFI | 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/SHFI | 150 hours | Molecular gas survey of low redshift BAT AGN (0.01<z<0.05) | M. Koss |
| 2016B | APEX/SHFI | 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 | VLT/X-shooter | 29 hours | BASS BH measurements | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| 2017B | Hale/Doublespec | 5 nights | BASS optical spectroscopy of 70-month and 105-month sample | M. Powell, M. Urry |
| 2017B | Keck/Osiris | 1 night | Study of kpc mergers in BAT AGN | F. Harrison |
| P99 | VLT/X-shooter | 37 hours | BH of obscured AGN for DR2 | K. Oh |
| P99 | VLT/FORS2 | 31 hours | BH of unobscured AGN for DR2 | K. Oh |
| P98 | VLT/X-shooter | 13 hours | BH of obscured AGN for DR2 | K. Oh |
| P99,P100 | VLT/VISIR | 111.5 hours | MIR spectroscopy of a complete sample of BAT AGN | D. Asmus |
| 2017A | KaVA | 14 hours | parsec-scale jet imaging for BASS AGNs at 22 GHz | J. Baek |
| 2016A | APEX/SHFI | 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 | VLT/VISIR | 56.5 hours | MIR spectroscopy of a complete sample of BAT AGN | D. Asmus |
| 2016A | KVN | 23 hours | 22 GHz fringe survey to find radio detectable sources | J. Baek |
| 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 |