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Maksym, W. Peter
Astrophysicist
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Research Overview
Primarily supermassive black holes, as well as other extragalactic high energy phenomena. AGN accretion and feedback. Black hole formation and growth. Tidal disruption events and other time domain phenomena. X-ray astronomy and multi-wavelength imaging of narrow line emission. Surveys, monitoring, and high-resolution studies of individual objects.
Selected Publications
Article
Maksym, W. Peter, Elvis, Martin, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Trindade Falcão, Anna, Kraemer, Steven B., Fischer, Travis C., Crenshaw, D. Michael, and Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa. 2023. "A UFO Seen Edge-on? Resolving Ultrafast Outflow Emission on 200 pc Scales with Chandra in the Active Nucleus of Mrk 34 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 951 146. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acd7f1 .
2023
Trindade Falcao, Anna, Fabbiano, G., Elvis, Martin, Paggi, A., and Maksym, W. Peter. 2023. "Deep Chandra Observations of NGC 5728: Morphology and Spectral Properties of the Extended X-Ray Emission ." The Astrophysical Journal , 950 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acd052 .
2023
Ma, Jingzhe, Elvis, Martin, Fabbiano, G., Baloković, Mislav, Maksym, W. Peter, and Risaliti, Guido. 2023. "Extended Hard X-Ray Emission in Highly Obscured AGNs ." The Astrophysical Journal , 948 61. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acba8d .
2023
Windhorst, Rogier A., Cohen, Seth H., Jansen, Rolf A., Summers, Jake, Tompkins, Scott, Conselice, Christopher J., Driver, Simon P., Yan, Haojing, Coe, Dan, Frye, Brenda, Grogin, Norman, Koekemoer, Anton, Marshall, Madeline A., O'Brien, Rosalia, Pirzkal, Nor, Robotham, Aaron, Ryan, Russell E., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Carleton, Timothy, Diego, Jose M., Keel, William C., Porto, Paolo, Redshaw, Caleb, Scheller, Sydney, Wilkins, Stephen M. et al. 2023. "JWST PEARLS. Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results ." The Astronomical Journal , 165 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aca163 .
2023
Yan, Haojing, Cohen, Seth H., Windhorst, Rogier A., Jansen, Rolf A., Ma, Zhiyuan, Beacom, John F., Ling, Chenxiaoji, Cheng, Cheng, Huang, Jia-Sheng, Grogin, Norman A., Willner, S. P., Yun, Min, Hammel, Heidi B., Milam, Stefanie N., Conselice, Christopher J., Driver, Simon P., Frye, Brenda, Marshall, Madeline A., Koekemoer, Anton, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Robotham, Aaron, D'Silva, Jordan C. J., Summers, Jake, Lim, Jeremy, Harrington, Kevin et al. 2023. "JWST's PEARLS: Bright 1.5-2.0 μm Dropouts in the Spitzer/IRAC Dark Field ." The Astrophysical Journal , 942 L8. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aca974 .
2023
Willmer, Christopher N. A., Ly, Chun, Kikuta, Satoshi, Kattner, S. A., Jansen, Rolf A., Cohen, Seth H., Windhorst, Rogier A., Smail, Ian, Tompkins, Scott, Beacom, John F., Cheng, Cheng, Conselice, Christopher J., Frye, Brenda L., Koekemoer, Anton M., Hathi, Nimish, Hyun, Minhee, Im, Myungshin, Willner, S. P., Zhao, Xiurui, Brisken, Walter A., Civano, Francesca, Cotton, William, Hasinger, Günther, Maksym, W. Peter, Rieke, Marcia J. et al. 2023. "PEARLS: Near-infrared Photometry in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field ." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 269 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acf57d .
2023
Harvey, Thomas, Maksym, W. Peter, Keel, William, Koss, Michael, Bennert, Vardha N., Chojnowski, S. Drew, Treister, Ezequiel, Finlez, Carolina, Lintott, Chris J., Moiseev, Alexei, Simmons, Brooke D., Sartori, Lia F., and Urry, Megan. 2023. "Signatures of feedback in the spectacular extended emission region of NGC 5972 ." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 526 4174–4191. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2989 .
2023
Finlez, C., Treister, E., Bauer, F., Keel, W., Koss, M., Nagar, N., Sartori, L., Maksym, W. Peter, Venturi, G., Tubín, D., and Harvey, Thomas. 2022. "Detailed Accretion History of the Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 5972 over the Past ≳104 yr through the Extended Emission-line Region ." The Astrophysical Journal , 936 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac854e .
2022
Lin, Dacheng, Godet, Olivier, Webb, Natalie A., Barret, Didier, Irwin, Jimmy A., Komossa, S., Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico, Maksym, W. Peter, Grupe, Dirk, and Carrasco, Eleazar R. 2022. "Follow-up Observations of the Prolonged, Super-Eddington, Tidal Disruption Event Candidate 3XMM J150052.0 015452: the Slow Decline Continues ." The Astrophysical Journal , 924 L35. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac4785 .
2022
Fornasini, Francesca M., Elvis, Martin, Maksym, W. Peter, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Gandhi, Poshak, and Whittle, Mark. 2022. "Termination Shocks and the Extended X-Ray Emission in Mrk 78 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 931 65. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac694d .
2022
Maksym, W. Peter, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Elvis, Martin, Ho, Luis C., Oosterloo, Tom, Ma, Jingzhe, Travascio, Andrea, Fischer, Travis C., and Keel, William C. 2021. "A Giant Loop of Ionized Gas Emerging from the Tumultuous Central Region of IC 5063 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 917 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0976 .
2021
Travascio, A., Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Paggi, A., Elvis, Martin, Maksym, W. Peter, Morganti, R., Oosterloo, T., and Fiore, F. 2021. "AGN-Host Interaction in IC 5063. I. Large-scale X-Ray Morphology and Spectral Analysis ." The Astrophysical Journal , 921 129. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac18c7 .
2021
Jones, Mackenzie L., Parker, Kieran, Fabbiano, G., Elvis, Martin, Maksym, W. Peter, Paggi, A., Ma, Jingzhe, Karovska, M., Siemiginowska, Aneta, and Wang, Junfeng. 2021. "Extended X-Ray Emission in Compton Thick AGN with Deep Chandra Observations ." The Astrophysical Journal , 910 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abe128 .
2021
Trindade Falcão, Anna, Kraemer, S. B., Fischer, T. C., Crenshaw, D. M., Revalski, M., Schmitt, H. R., Maksym, W. Peter, Vestergaard, M., Elvis, Martin, Gaskell, C. M., Hamann, F., Ho, L. C., Hutchings, J., Mushotzky, R., Netzer, H., Storchi-Bergmann, T., Turner, T. J., and Ward, M. J. 2021. "Hubble Space Telescope [O III] emission-line kinematics in two nearby QSO2s: a case for X-ray feedback ." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 505 3054–3069. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1549 .
2021
Revalski, Mitchell, Meena, Beena, Martinez, Francisco, Polack, Garrett E., Crenshaw, D. Michael, Kraemer, Steven B., Collins, Nicholas R., Fischer, Travis C., Schmitt, Henrique R., Schmidt, Judy, Maksym, W. Peter, and Rafelski, Marc. 2021. "Quantifying Feedback from Narrow Line Region Outflows in Nearby Active Galaxies. III. Results for the Seyfert 2 Galaxies Markarian 3, Markarian 78, and NGC 1068 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 910 139. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdcad .
2021
Ma, Jingzhe, Maksym, W. Peter, Fabbiano, G., Elvis, Martin, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Karovska, Margarita, Wang, Junfeng, and Travascio, Andrea. 2021. "Spatially Resolved BPT Mapping of Nearby Seyfert 2 Galaxies ." The Astrophysical Journal , 908 155. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abcfc1 .
2021
Zhao, Xiurui, Civano, Francesca, Fornasini, F. M., Alexander, D. M., Cappelluti, N., Chen, C. T., Cohen, S. H., Elvis, M., Gandhi, P., Grogin, N. A., Hickox, R. C., Jansen, R. A., Koekemoer, A., Lanzuisi, G., Maksym, W. Peter, Masini, A., Rosario, D. J., Ward, M. J., Willmer, C. N. A., and Windhorst, R. A. 2021. "The NuSTAR extragalactic survey of the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole time-domain field ." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 508 5176–5195. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2885 .
2021
Jones, Mackenzie L., Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Elvis, Martin, Paggi, A., Karovska, Margarita, Maksym, W. Peter, Siemiginowska, Aneta, and Raymond, John. 2020. "Chandra Observations of NGC 7212: Large-scale Extended Hard X-Ray Emission ." The Astrophysical Journal , 891 133. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab76c8 .
2020
Maksym, W. Peter, Schmidt, Judy, Keel, William C., Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Fischer, Travis C., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Barth, Aaron J., Elvis, Martin, Oosterloo, Tom, Ho, Luis C., Kim, Minjin, Hwang, Hyunmo, and Mayer, Evan. 2020. "Crepuscular Rays from the Highly Inclined Active Galactic Nucleus in IC 5063 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 902 L18. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abb9b6 .
2020
Ma, Jingzhe, Elvis, Martin, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Baloković, Mislav, Maksym, W. Peter, Jones, Mackenzie L., and Risaliti, Guido. 2020. "Is Extended Hard X-Ray Emission Ubiquitous in Compton-thick AGN? " The Astrophysical Journal , 900 164. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abacbe .
2020
Maksym, W. Peter, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Elvis, Martin, Karovska, Margarita, Paggi, Alessandro, Raymond, John, Wang, Junfeng, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, and Risaliti, Guido. 2019. "CHEERS Results from NGC 3393. III. Chandra X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Narrow Line Region ." The Astrophysical Journal , 872 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf4f5 .
2019
Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Siemiginowska, Aneta, Paggi, Alessandro, Elvis, Martin, Volonteri, M., Mayer, L., Karovska, Margarita, Maksym, W. Peter, Risaliti, G., and Wang, Junfeng. 2019. "Deep Chandra Observations of ESO 428-G014. IV. The Morphology of the Nuclear Region in the Hard Continuum and Fe Kα Line ." The Astrophysical Journal , 870 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf0a4 .
2019
Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Paggi, Alessandro, Karovska, Margarita, Elvis, Martin, Maksym, W. Peter, and Wang, Junfeng. 2018. "Deep Chandra Observations of ESO 428-G01. III. High-resolution Spectral Imaging of the Ionization Cone and Radio Jet Region ." The Astrophysical Journal , 865 83. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aadc5d .
2018
Fabbiano, G., Paggi, A., Karovska, M., Elvis, M., Maksym, W. Peter, Risaliti, G., and Wang, Junfeng. 2018. "Deep Chandra Observations of ESO 428-G014. II. Spectral Properties and Morphology of the Large-scale Extended X-Ray Emission ." The Astrophysical Journal , 855 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aab1f4 .
2018
Revalski, M., Dashtamirova, D., Crenshaw, D. M., Kraemer, S. B., Fischer, T. C., Schmitt, H. R., Gnilka, C. L., Schmidt, J., Elvis, Martin, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Storchi-Bergmann, T., Maksym, W. Peter, and Gandhi, P. 2018. "Quantifying Feedback from Narrow Line Region Outflows in Nearby Active Galaxies. II. Spatially Resolved Mass Outflow Rates for the QSO2 Markarian 34 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 867 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae3e6 .
2018
Johnson, Lucas E., Irwin, Jimmy A., White, Raymond E.,III, Wong, Ka-Wah, Maksym, W. Peter, Dupke, Renato A., Miller, Eric D., and Carrasco, Eleazar R. 2018. "Using Strong Gravitational Lensing to Identify Fossil Group Progenitors ." The Astrophysical Journal , 856 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aab430 .
2018
Maksym, W. Peter, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Elvis, Martin, Karovska, Margarita, Paggi, Alessandro, Raymond, John, Wang, Junfeng, and Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa. 2017. "CHEERS Results from NGC 3393. II. Investigating the Extended Narrow-line Region Using Deep Chandra Observations and Hubble Space Telescope Narrow-line Imaging ." The Astrophysical Journal , 844 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa78a4 .
2017
Fabbiano, G., Elvis, M., Paggi, A., Karovska, M., Maksym, W. Peter, Raymond, J., Risaliti, G., and Wang, Junfeng. 2017. "Discovery of a Kiloparsec Extended Hard X-Ray Continuum and Fe–Kα from the Compton Thick AGN ESO 428-G014 ." The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 842 L4. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa7551 .
2017
Paggi, Alessandro, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Risaliti, Guido, Wang, Junfeng, Karovska, Margarita, Elvis, Martin, Maksym, W. Peter, McDowell, Jonathan, and Gallagher, Jay. 2017. "X-Ray Emission from the Nuclear Region of Arp 220 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 841 44. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa713b .
2017
Maksym, W. Peter, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Elvis, Martin, Karovska, Margarita, Paggi, Alessandro, Raymond, John, Wang, Junfeng, and Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa. 2016. "Mapping Seyfert and LINER Excitation Modes in the Inner kpc of NGC 3393 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 829 46. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/1/46 .
2016
Miller, Jon M., Kaastra, Jelle S., Miller, M. Coleman, Reynolds, Mark T., Brown, Gregory, Cenko, S. Bradley, Drake, Jeremy J., Gezari, Suvi, Guillochon, James, Gultekin, Kayhan, Irwin, Jimmy, Levan, Andrew, Maitra, Dipankar, Maksym, W. Peter, Mushotzky, Richard, O'Brien, Paul, Paerels, Frits, de Plaa, Jelle, Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico, Strohmayer, Tod, and Tanvir, Nial. 2015. "Flows of X-ray gas reveal the disruption of a star by a massive black hole ." Nature , 526 542–545. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15708 .
2015
Keel, William C., Maksym, W. Peter, Bennert, Vardha N., Lintott, Chris J., Chojnowski, S. Drew, Moiseev, Alexei, Smirnova, Aleksandrina, Schawinski, Kevin, Urry, C. Megan, Evans, Daniel A., Pancoast, Anna, Scott, Bryan, Showley, Charles, and Flatland, Kelsi. 2015. "HST Imaging of Fading AGN Candidates. I. Host-galaxy Properties and Origin of the Extended Gas ." The Astronomical Journal , 149 155. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/149/5/155 .
2015
Maksym, W. Peter, Irwin, J. A., Keel, W. C., Burke, D., and Schawinski, K. 2014. "Pre-explosion Upper Limit on X-ray Emission from a Progenitor for SN 2014J ." The Astronomer's Telegram , 5798 1.
2014
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