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B. McKernan
astro-ph.HEastro-ph.GAastro-phastro-ph.COastro-ph.SRgr-qcastro-ph.IMastro-ph.EPBinary evolutionBlack holes
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Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational Wave Event S190521g
with M. J. Graham, K. E. S. Ford, N. P. Ross, D. Stern +22
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79 papers in the corpus · 1997–2026Extreme AGN Variability in WISE: Powerful Flares and Candidate Tidal Disruption Events in AGN2609.01421v1 · Satya Teja Anuraag Upadhyayula, Daniel Stern, Kishalay De et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Signatures of Compact Object Mergers Inside Stars in AGN Disks2608.23677v1 · Matteo Cantiello, Alexander J. Dittmann, Saavik Ford et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes. III. Mass Distribution of Hierarchical Mergers2608.13641v1 · Katherine L. Gonglewski, Amy Secunda, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Active Galactic Nucleus Tori: Potential Birthplace to Millions of Planets2605.19241v2 · Bhupendra Mishra, Wladimir Lyra, Barry McKernan et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
McFACTS. IV. Electromagnetic Counterparts to AGN-disk-embedded Binary Black Hole Mergers2602.04135v2 · Emily McPike, Rosalba Perna, K.E. Saavik Ford et al.2026 · 1 citationarXiv
An Extremely Luminous Flare Recorded from a Supermassive Black Hole2511.02178v1 · Matthew J. Graham, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford et al.2025 · 7 citationsarXiv
Prospects for the formation of GW231123 from the AGN channel2508.13412v1 · V. Delfavero, S. Ray, H. E. Cook et al.2025 · 1 citationarXiv
Using gravitational waves and multi-messenger Astronomy to reverse-engineer the properties of galactic nuclei2506.08801v1 · K.E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan2025 · 1 citationarXiv
Discovery of extreme Quasi-Periodic Eruptions in a newly accreting massive black hole2504.07169v1 · Lorena Hern'andez-Garc'ia, Joheen Chakraborty, Paula S'anchez-S'aez et al.2025 · 41 citationsarXiv
Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH2502.10591v2 · Jake Postiglione, K. E. Saavik Ford, Henry Best et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
McFACTS II: Mass Ratio--Effective Spin Relationship of Black Hole Mergers in the AGN Channel2411.10590v2 · Harrison E. Cook, Barry McKernan, K.E. Saavik Ford et al.2024 · 11 citationsarXiv
McFacts III: Compact binary mergers from AGN disks over an entire synthetic universe2410.18815v2 · Vera Delfavero, K. E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan et al.2024 · 18 citationsarXiv
McFACTS I: Testing the LVK AGN channel with Monte Carlo For AGN Channel Testing & Simulation (McFACTS)2410.16515v2 · Barry McKernan, K.E. Saavik Ford, Harrison E. Cook et al.2024 · 4 citationsarXiv
Searching for electromagnetic emission in an AGN from the gravitational wave binary black hole merger candidate S230922g2407.10698v2 · Tom'as Cabrera, Antonella Palmese, Lei Hu et al.2024 · 28 citationsarXiv
Conditions for Changing-Look AGNs from Accretion Disk-Induced Tidal Disruption Events2406.12096v1 · Yihan Wang, Matthew J. Graham, K.E. Saavik Ford et al.2024 · 2 citationsarXiv
In-plane Tidal Disruption of Stars in Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei2310.00610v1 · Taeho Ryu, Barry McKernan, Saavik Ford et al.2023 · 0 citationsarXiv
Constraining the LIGO/Virgo AGN channel with black hole spins2309.15213v1 · B. McKernan, K.E.S. Ford2023 · 2 citationsarXiv
Tidal Disruption Events from three-body scatterings and eccentricity pumping in the disks of Active Galactic Nuclei2310.00020v2 · Chaitanya Prasad, Yihan Wang, Rosalba Perna et al.2023 · 0 citationsarXiv
NuSTAR Observations of Candidate Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes2304.06144v2 · M. Lynne Saade, Murray Brightman, Daniel Stern et al.2023 · 7 citationsarXiv
Effective two-body scatterings around a massive object2303.04889v1 · Yihan Wang, Saavik Ford, Rosalba Perna et al.2023 · 2 citationsarXiv
The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry2210.17434v2 · Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Peter Tuthill, James P. Lloyd et al.2022 · 24 citationsarXiv
A light in the dark: searching for electromagnetic counterparts to black hole-black hole mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility2209.13004v1 · Matthew J. Graham, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford et al.2022 · 89 citationsarXiv
Aligning Retrograde Nuclear Cluster Orbits with an Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disc2207.09540v4 · Syeda S. Nasim, Gaia Fabj, Freddy Caban et al.2022 · 32 citationsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 522, Issue 4, July 2023, Pages 5393-5401
Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna2203.06016v2 · Pau Amaro Seoane, Jeff Andrews, Manuel Arca Sedda et al.2022 · 630 citationsLiving Reviews in Relativity, Volume 26, Article number: 2 (2023)
GW190521 as a black-hole merger coincident with the ZTF19abanrhr flare2112.12481v1 · Juan Calder'on Bustillo, Samson H.W. Leong, Koustav Chandra et al.2021 · 4 citationsarXiv
Science with the Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX)2111.15608v3 · S. R. Kulkarni, Fiona A. Harrison, Brian W. Grefenstette et al.2021 · 39 citationsarXiv
Measuring the properties of active galactic nuclei disks with gravitational waves2111.03992v2 · Avi Vajpeyi, Eric Thrane, Rory Smith et al.2021 · 36 citationsThe Astrophysical Journal, Volume 931, Issue 2, id.82, 8 pp., June 2022
Symmetry Breaking in Dynamical Encounters in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei2110.03698v1 · Yihan Wang, Barry McKernan, Saavik Ford et al.2021 · 36 citationsarXiv
Starfall: A heavy rain of stars in 'turning on' AGN2110.03741v1 · B.McKernan, K.E.S. Ford, M. Cantiello et al.2021 · 32 citationsarXiv
Binary Black Hole Merger Rates in AGN Disks versus Nuclear Star Clusters: Loud beats Quiet2109.03212v1 · K. E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan2021 · 74 citationsarXiv
LIGO--Virgo correlations between mass ratio and effective inspiral spin: testing the active galactic nuclei channel2107.07551v1 · B.McKernan, K.E.S.Ford, T.Callister et al.2021 · 47 citationsarXiv
Prospects of gravitational-waves detections from common-envelope evolution with LISA2102.00078v2 · M. Renzo, T. Callister, K. Chatziioannou et al.2021 · 27 citationsarXiv
The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: A summary of discoveries waiting in the decihertz range.34720416 · Sedda, Manuel Arca, Berry, Christopher P L, Jani, Karan et al.2024 · 28 citationsExperimental astronomy. 2021;51(3):1427-1440
Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521g.32639755 · Graham, M J, Ford, K E S, McKernan, B et al.2020 · 381 citationsPhysical review letters. 2020;124(25):251102
Aligning Nuclear Cluster Orbits with an Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disk2006.11229v2 · Gaia Fabj, Syeda S. Nasim, Freddy Caban et al.2020 · 105 citationsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 499, Issue 2, December 2020, Pages 2608-2616
Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes II. Spins and Incoming Objects2004.11936v2 · Amy Secunda, Jillian Bellovary, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low et al.2020 · 90 citationsarXiv
Black hole, neutron star and white dwarf merger rates in AGN disks2002.00046v2 · B.McKernan, K.E.S. Ford, R. O'Shaughnessy2020 · 134 citationsarXiv
Extreme variability in an active galactic nucleus: Gaia16aax2001.07446v1 · G. Cannizzaro, M. Fraser, P. G. Jonker et al.2020 · 24 citationsarXiv
The first high-redshift changing-look quasars1912.05310v1 · Nicholas P. Ross, Matthew J. Graham, Giorgio Calderone et al.2019 · 40 citationsarXiv
Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei.31763897 · Yang, Y, Bartos, I, Gayathri, V et al.2019 · 282 citationsPhysical review letters. 2019;123(18):181101
The Missing Link in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Discoveries waiting in the decihertz range1908.11375v3 · Manuel Arca Sedda, Christopher P.L. Berry, Karan Jani et al.2019 · 157 citationsarXiv
LIGO tells us LINERs are not optically thick RIAFs1907.04871v1 · K.E.S. Ford, B.McKernan2019 · 11 citationsarXiv
The evolution of kicked stellar-mass black holes in star cluster environments II. Rotating star clusters1907.04330v1 · Jeremy J. Webb, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Roberto Serrano et al.2019 · 9 citationsarXiv
Monte-Carlo simulations of black hole mergers in AGN disks: Low mergers and predictions for LIGO1907.04356v3 · B. McKernan, K.E.S. Ford, R. O'Shaughnessy et al.2019 · 149 citationsarXiv
Understanding extreme quasar optical variability with CRTS: II. Changing-state quasars1905.02262v1 · Matthew J. Graham, Nicholas P. Ross, Daniel Stern et al.2019 · 119 citationsarXiv
AGN (and other) astrophysics with Gravitational Wave Events1903.09529v1 · K. E. Saavik Ford, Imre Bartos, Barry McKernan et al.2019 · 7 citationsarXiv
Multimessenger science opportunities with mHz gravitational waves1903.04417v1 · John Baker, Zolt'an Haiman, Elena Maria Rossi et al.2019 · 13 citationsarXiv
Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes1807.02859v2 · Amy Secunda, Jillian Bellovary, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low et al.2018 · 194 citationsarXiv
A Mid-IR Selected Changing-Look Quasar and Physical Scenarios for Abrupt AGN Fading1805.06920v1 · Daniel Stern, Barry McKernan, Matthew J. Graham et al.2018 · 175 citationsarXiv
A new physical interpretation of optical and infrared variability in quasars1805.06921v2 · Nicholas P. Ross, K. E. Saavik Ford, Matthew Graham et al.2018 · 125 citations2018MNRAS.480.4468R
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