Research Activities

Master’s Thesis Project @ Bishop’s University

For my Master’s thesis project, I am developing a novel method to identify supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) host candidate galaxies from archival spectroscopic surveys
In essence, I am using novel insights drawn from cosmological simulations that suggest that galaxies harbouring supermassive black hole binary systems have unique stellar kinematic features
The approach of my project is to look through galaxy surveys for which kinematic information is available (which are called Integral Field Unit or IFU surveys), and to search among the available galaxies the unique stellar kinematic features that are suggestive of the presence of a SMBHB system
In addition to those stellar kinematic features, I also use galaxy surface brightness profile information to aid in selecting the SMBHB host candidate galaxies
Supervisor: John J. Ruan

For my research internship at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) during the Summer of 2022, I revitalized a line intensity mapping program and implemented a novel model for the parametrization of the cosmological [C II] signal. This work notably allowed me to publish a first-author paper
Supervisors: Dongwoo Chung, Dick Bond
More to come…