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Refereed Articles (Submitted and Accepted)

BASS XXI: The BASS DR2 Overview.

Koss, M. J., Trakhtenbrot, B., Ricci, C., Bauer, F. E., Treister, E., Mushotzky, R., Urry, C. M., Ananna, T. T., den Brok, J. S., Cenko, B., Harrison, F., Ichikawa, K., Lamperti, I., Lein, A., Mejia-Restrepo, J. E., Oh, K., Pacucci, F., Pfeifle, R. W., Powell, M., Privon, G. C., Ricci, F., Salvato, M., Schawinski, K., Shimizu, T., Smith, K. L., Stern, D., (ApJS, submitted). Part of ApJS special release for the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 2.

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey-XXIII. A New Mid-Infrared Diagnostic for Absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei

Pfeifle, R. W., Ricci, C., Boorman, P. G., Stalevski, M., Asmus, D., Trakhtenbrot, B., Koss, M. J., Stern, D., Ricci, F., Satyapal, S., Ichikawa, K., Rosario, D. J., Caglar, T., Treister, E., Powell, M., Oh, K., Urry, C. M., Harrison, F., (2021, in press). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, in press. Part of ApJS special release for the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04412

Refereed Articles (Published)

A hard X-ray view of luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies in GOALS - I. AGN obscuration along the merger sequence

Ricci, C., Privon, G. C., Pfeifle, R. W., Armus, L., Iwasawa, K., Torres-Albà, N., Satyapal, S., Bauer, F. E., Treister, E., Ho, L. C., Aalto, S., Arévalo, P., Barcos-Muñoz, L., Charmandaris, V., Diaz-Santos, T., Evans, A. S., Gao, T., Inami, H., Koss, M. J., Lansbury, G., Linden, S. T., Medling, A., Sanders, D. B., Song, Y., Stern, D., U, V., Ueda, Y., Yamada, S., (2021). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506, 5935,

The Discovery of a Hidden Broad-line AGN in a Bulgeless Galaxy: Keck NIR Spectroscopic Observations of SDSS J085153.64+ 392611.76

Bohn, T., Canalizo, G., Satyapal, S., Pfeifle, R. W., (2020). The Astrophysical Journal, 899, 82,

Multi-wavelength Observations of J105621+313823, A Broad-Line, Low-Metallicity AGN

Cann, J. M., Satyapal, S., Bohn, T., Sexton, R., Pfeifle, R. W., Manzano-King, C., Canalizo, G., Rothberg, B., Gliozzi, M., Secrest, N. J., Blecha, L., (2020). The Astrophysical Journal, 895, 147,

Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observation of the Triple AGN Candidate J0849+1114

Gabanyi, K. É., Frey, S., Satyapal, S., Constantin, A., Pfeifle, R. W., (2019). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 630, L5,

A Triple AGN in a Mid-Infrared Selected Late Stage Galaxy Merger

Pfeifle, R. W., Satyapal, S., Manzano-King, C., Cann, J., Sexton, R. O., Rothberg, B., Canalizo, G., Ricci, C., Blecha, L., Ellison, S. L., Gliozzi, M., Secrest, N. J., Constantin, A., Harvey, J. B., (2019b). The Astrophysical Journal, 883, 167,

Buried Black Hole Growth in IR-Selected Mergers: New Results from Chandra

Pfeifle, R. W., Satyapal, S., Secrest, N. J., Gliozzi, M., Ricci, C., Ellison, S. L., Rothberg, B., Cann, J., Blecha, L., Williams, J. K., Constantin, A., (2019a). The Astrophysical Journal, 875, 117,

Confirmation of the Planetary Microlensing Signal and Star and Planet Mass Determinations for Event OGLE-2005-BLG-169

Bennett, D. P., Bhattacharya, A., Anderson, J., Bond, I. A., Anderson, N., Barry, R., Batista, V., Beaulieu, J. -P.,DePoy, D. L., Dong, Subo, Gaudi, B. S., Gilbert, E., Gould, A., Pfeifle, R., Pogge, R. W., Suzuki, D., Terry, S., Udalski, A., (2015). The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 169,


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