Selected Publications
Big Galaxies and Big Black Holes: The Massive Ends of the Local Stellar and Black Hole Mass Functions and the Implications for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2407.14595)
Identifying the Host Galaxies of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Found by PTAs
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2406.04409)
The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2406.12917)
The Black Hole Explorer: Astrophysics Mission Concept Engineering Study Report
(abstract/paper)
TriOS Schwarzschild Orbit Modeling: Robustness of Parameter Inference for Masses and Shapes of Triaxial Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2403.07996)
The MASSIVE Survey - XIX. Molecular Gas Measurements of the Supermassive Black Hole Masses in the Elliptical Galaxies NGC 1684 and NGC 997
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2401.16376)
Galaxy Tomography with the Gravitational Wave Background from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
(arXiv:2411.05906)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Running of the Spectral Index
(arXiv:2408.10166)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Posterior Predictive Checks for Gravitational-wave Detection with Pulsar Timing Arrays
(arXiv:2407.20510)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Removing Pulsars One by One from the Pulsar Timing Array
(arXiv:2411:14846)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Looking for Signs of Discreteness in the Gravitational-wave Background
(arXiv:2404:07020)
Comparing Recent PTA Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2309.00693)
NANOGrav 15-year Gravitational-Wave Background Methods
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16223)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-Wave Background
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2310.12138)
The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: A Computationally Efficient Eccentric Binary Search Pipeline and Constraints on an Eccentric Supermassive Binary Candidate in 3C 66B
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2309.17438)
The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for Gravitational Wave Memory
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2307.13797)
The MASSIVE Survey - XVIII. Deep Wide-Field K-band Photometry and Local Scaling Relations for Massive Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2210.08043)
Comparing Globular Cluster System Properties with Host Galaxy Environment
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2307.01863)
How to Detect an Astrophysical Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Background
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2309.04443)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-Wave Background
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2307.13797)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16220)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16222)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16219)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16218)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16217)
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2306.16213)
Keck Integral-Field Spectroscopy of M87 Reveals an Intrinsically Triaxial Galaxy and a Revised Black Hole Mass
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2302.07884)
Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2203.06016)
The Event Horizon Explorer Mission Concept
(abstract/paper) (arXiv)
The MASSIVE Survey - XVII. A Triaxial Orbit-based Determination of the
Black Hole Mass and Intrinsic Shape of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 2693
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2111.13699)
S. Thater, G. van de Ven, K. Gebhardt, N. Lutzgendorf, B. Boizelle, C.-P. Ma, and A. Barth (2022), MNRAS, 512, 2556.
Gas Inflows in the Polar Ring of NGC 4111: the Birth of an AGN
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2203.02532)
The MASSIVE Survey - XVI. The Stellar Initial Mass Function in the Center of Massive Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2110.11985)
Triaxial Orbit-based Dynamical Modeling of Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes and an Application to Massive Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1453
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2111.06904)
Toward Determining the Number of Observable Supermassive Black Hole Shadows
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2108.05228)
Galaxy Core Formation by Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: the Importance of Realistic Initial Conditions and Galaxy Morphology
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2108.08317)
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 255, 21.
Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for
MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2105.08299)
The Hubble Constant from Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2101.02221)
The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: Limits on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxies within 500 Mpc
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2101.02716)
Dynamical Modeling of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes: Axisymmetry in Triaxial Schwarzschild Orbit Superposition Models
(abstract/paper)
(arXiv:2005.00542)
Development of the ROSIE Integral Field Unit on the Magellan IMACS Spectrograph
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2012.12293)
The MASSIVE Survey - XV. A Stellar
Dynamical Mass Measurement of the Supermassive Black Hole in Massive
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1453
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2001.08753)
The MASSIVE Survey - XIV. Stellar Velocity Profiles and Kinematic Misalignment from 200 pc to 20 kpc in Massive Early-type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:2001.11046)
C.-P. Ma, R. Pakmor, L. Hernquist, M. Vogelsberger (2020), The Astrophysical Journal, 895, 102.
Correlations Between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1910.00017)
The MASSIVE Survey - XIII. Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics in the Central 1 kpc of 20 Massive Elliptical Galaxies with the GMOS-North Integral-Field Spectrograph
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1904.08929)
Constraining Scatter in the Stellar Mass-Halo Mass Relation for Halos Less Massive than the Milky Way
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1812.05733)
The MASSIVE Survey - XII. Connecting Stellar Populations of Early-Type
Galaxies to Kinematics and Environment
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1901.01271)
The MASSIVE Survey - XI. What Drives the Molecular Gas Properties of Early-Type
Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1903.08884)
The MASSIVE Survey - X. Misalignment between Kinematic and
Photometric Axes and Intrinsic Shapes of Massive Early-Type
Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1802.00014)
BLUETIDES Simulation: Establishing Black Hole-Galaxy Relations at High-Redshift
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1801.04951)
The MASSIVE Survey - IX. Photometric Analysis of 35 High-Mass Early-Type Galaxies with HST WFC3/IR
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1801.08245)
A General Precipitation-Limited Lx-T-R Relation Among Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1708.02189)
The MASSIVE Survey - VIII. Stellar Velocity Dispersion Profiles and Environmental Dependence of Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1708.00870)
The Local Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Landscape From Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1708.03491)
Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Escape Velocities from Dark Matter Halos
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1707.06220)
The MASSIVE Survey - VII. The Relationship of Angular Momentum, Stellar
Mass and Environment of Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1703.08573)
Forward and Backward Galaxy Evolution in Comoving
Number Density Space
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1606.07271)
V. Springel, C.-P. Ma, and L. Hernquist (2017), MNRAS, 467, 3083.
The Role of Mergers and Halo Spin in Shaping Galaxy Morpology
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1609.09498)
The Astrophysical Journal, 837, 44.
The MASSIVE Survey - VI. The Spatial Distribution and Kinematics of Warm Ionized Gas in the Most Massive Local Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1701.08772)
The MASSIVE Survey - V. Spatially-Resolved Stellar Angular Momentum, Velocity Dispersion, and Higher Moments
of the 41 Most Massive Local Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1609.00391)
A 17-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in a Group Galaxy with a Diffuse Core
(paper) (abstract/paper)
The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 167.
The MASSIVE Survey - IV. The X-Ray Halos of the Most Massive Early-Type Galaxies in the Nearby Universe
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1604.01764)
Constraints on Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from Pulsar Timing Array Limits on Continuous Gravitational Waves
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1510.08472)
V. Springel, C.-P. Ma, and L. Hernquist (2016), MNRAS, 458, 2371.
The Stellar Mass Assembly of Galaxies in the Illustris Simulation: Growth by Mergers and the Spatial Distribution of Accreted Stars
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1511.08804)
MNRAS, 456, 1030.
The Diverse Evolutionary Paths of Simulated High-redshift Massive,
Compact Galaxies to z = 0
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1507.02291)
The MASSIVE Survey - III. Molecular Gas and a Broken Tully-Fisher Relation in the Most Massive Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1510.00729)
C.-P. Ma, M. Vogelsberger, V. Springel and L. Hernquist (2015), MNRAS, 454, 2770.
An Analysis of the Evolving Comoving
Number Density of Galaxies in Hydrodynamical Simulations
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1507.01942)
The MASSIVE Survey - II. Stellar Population Trends Out to Large Radius in Massive Early-Type Galaxies
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1504.02483)
The Formation of Massive, Compact Galaxies at z=2 in the Illustris Simulation
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1411.0667)
V. Springel, C.-P. Ma, and L. Hernquist (2015), MNRAS, 449, 49.
The Merger Rate of Galaxies in the Illustris Simulation: a Comparison with Observations and Semi-Empirical Models
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1502.01339)
The Role of Nuclear Star Clusters in Enhancing Supermassive Black Hole
Feeding Rates During Galaxy Mergers
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1410.7381)
The MASSIVE Survey - I. A Volume-Limited Integral-Field Spectroscopic Study of the Most Massive Early-Type Galaxies within 108 Mpc
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1407.1054)
Two Paths of Cluster Evolution: Global Expansion versus Core Collapse
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1406.0784)
Dark-Matter Halo Assembly Bias: Environmental Dependence in the Non-Markovian Excursion Set Theory
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1312.0358)
Galaxies in X-ray Groups III: Satellite
Color and Morphology Transformations
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1302.6620)
The Effect of Spatial Gradients in Stellar
Mass-to-Light Ratio on Black Hole Mass Measurements
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1303.4393)
Revisiting the Scaling Relations of Black Hole Masses and Host Galaxy Properties
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1211.2816)
Stellar Disks in Aquarius Dark Matter Haloes
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1205.6472)
The Astrophysical Journal, 757, 2.
Galaxies in
X-ray Groups II: A Weak Lensing Study of Halo Centering
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1205.4262)
Dynamical Measurements of Black Hole Masses in Four Brightest
Cluster Galaxies at 100 Megaparsecs
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1203.1620)
Galaxy-Scale Outflows Driven by Active Galactic Nuclei
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1107.5579)
Two Ten-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Holes at the Centers of Giant Elliptical Galaxies
(abstract/paper)
(News & Views: Monster Black Holes)
(Editorial: A Massive Comfort)
The Baryonic Assembly of Dark Matter Halos
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1103.0001)
The Black Hole Mass in Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 6086
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1009.0750)
The Bias and Mass Function of Dark Matter Halos in Non-Markovian Extension of the Excursion Set Theory
(abstract/paper)
(arXiv:1007.4201)
The Growth of Massive Black Holes
in Galaxy Merger Simulations with Feedback by Radiation Pressure
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1006.3312)
K. Stewart, J. Younger, S. Genel, C.-P. Ma (2010), The Astrophysical Journal, 724, 915.
Mergers in Lambda-CDM: Uncertainties in Theoretical Predictions and Interpretations of the Merger Rate
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1004.2708)
The Merger Rates and Mass Assembly Histories of Dark Matter
Haloes in the Two Millennium Simulations
(abstract/paper) (arXiv:1001.2304)
Presence of Weak AGN in High Redshift Star Forming Galaxies
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:1001.5041)
O. Ilbert, P. Oesch, C.-P. Ma, P. Capak, L. Pozzetti, N. Scoville (2010), The Astrophysical Journal, 719, 1969.
The Rise and Fall of Passive Disk Galaxies: Morphological
Evolution Along the Red Sequence Revealed by COSMOS
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0912.1077)
The Gas Consumption History to Redshift 4
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0909.3840)
Self-Regulated Black Hole
Growth via Momentum Deposition in Galaxy Merger Simulations
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0909.2872)
Is the Radial Profile of the
Phase Space Density of Dark Matter Haloes a Power Law?
(arXiv:0907.3144)
When Should We Treat Galaxies as
Isolated?
(abstract/full
paper) (arXiv:0909.3306)
Dark
Matter Halo Growth II: Diffuse Accretion and its Environmental
Dependence
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0906.1196)
Compact High-Redshift Galaxies Are the Cores of Present-Day Massive Spheroids
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0903.2479)
Mass Accretion Rates and Histories of Dark Matter Halos
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0902.3659)
The Effects of Gas on Morphological Transformation in Mergers: Implications for Bulge and Disk Demographics
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0901.4111)
Environmental Dependence of Dark Matter Halo Growth I: Halo Merger Rates
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0808.2471)
How to Grow a Healthy Merger Tree
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0805.1230)
Conditional Mass Functions and Merger Rates of Dark Matter Halos
in the Ellipsoidal Collapse Model
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0801.3459)
The Nearly Universal Merger Rate of Dark Matter Halos in LCDM
Cosmology
(abstract/full paper) (arXiv:0710.4567)
Metallicities and Physical Conditions in
Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 1.0 to 1.5
(abstract/full paper) (astro-ph/0801.1670)
Dynamical Friction and Galaxy Merging Timescales
(abstract/full paper) (astro-ph/0707.2960)
Luminosity Dependence in the Fundamental Plane Projections of Elliptical
Galaxies
(abstract/full paper) (astro-ph/0608474)
Satellite Accretion onto Massive Galaxies with Central Black Holes
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0608122)
Red Mergers and the Assembly of Massive Elliptical Galaxies:
the Fundamental Plane and its Projections
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0601400)
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Groups and Group Galaxies
at z~1
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0507647)
Chemical Abundances
of DEEP2 Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 1.0 to 1.5
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0509102)
Impact of Dark Matter Substructure on the Matter and Weak Lensing
Power Spectra
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0504557)
Dissipationless Mergers of Elliptical Galaxies and the Evolution of
the Fundamental Plane
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0502495)
Effects of Ellipticity and Shear on Gravitational Lens
Statistics
(abstract/full article)
(astro-ph/0405040)
Understanding Dark Matter Distribution from a Kinetic View
(abstract/full article)
(ADS)
Core Formation in Galactic Nuclei due to Recoiling Black Holes
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0407488)
Are Halos of Collisionless Cold Dark Matter Collisionless?
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0403102)
Evolution and Color Dependence of the Galaxy Angular Correlation
Function: 350,000 Galaxies in 5 Square Degrees
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0403423)
A Cosmological Kinetic Theory for the Evolution of Cold Dark Matter
Halos with Substructure: Quasi-Linear Theory
(abstract/full paper) (astro-ph/0311049)
Major Mergers of Galaxy Halos: Cuspy or Cored Inner Density
Profile?
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0309243)
Gamma-Ray Bursts and Magnetars as Possible Sources of Ultra High
Energy Cosmic Rays: Correlation of Cosmic Ray Event Positions with
IRAS Galaxies
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0308257)
Constraints on the Inner Cluster Mass Profile and the
Power Spectrum Normalization from Strong Lensing Statistics
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0307301)
Small-Scale Cosmic Microwave Background
Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies due to Patchy Reionization
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0305471)
Schechter versus Schechter: Sub-Arcsecond Gravitational Lensing and
Inner Halo Profiles
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0211464)
Neutrino Clustering in Cold Dark Matter Halos: Implications
for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
(abstract/full paper) (astro-ph/0208419)
Nonlinear Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich
Effect
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0106342)
Probing Cosmic Baryons and Dark Matter with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
Effects
Linear and Second-Order Evolution of Cosmic Baryon Perturbations
below 10^6 Solar Masses
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0111450)
AMiBA 2001: High-z Clusters, Missing Baryons, and CMB Polarization,
ed. L.-W. Chen, C.-P. Ma, K.-W. Ng, and U. Pen.
The Nonlinear Thermal and Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
(abstract)
Strong Gravitational Lensing and Dark Energy
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0110093)
Constraints on the Inner Mass Profiles of Lensing Galaxies from
Missing Odd Images
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0009079)
The Onset of Nonlinearity in Cosmological Structure
(ADS)
(NYAS-online)
(abstract)
(astro-ph/0012282)
Deriving the Nonlinear Cosmological
Power Spectrum and Bispectrum from Analytic Dark Matter Halo Profiles
and Mass Functions
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0003343)
Constraints on
the Mass of Warm Dark Matter Particles and the Shape of the Linear Power
Spectrum from the Lyman-alpha Forest
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0005095)
What Does it Take to Stabilize Gravitational Clustering?
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0005233)
Halo Profiles and the Nonlinear Two- and
Three-Point Correlation Functions of Cosmological Mass Density
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/0001347)
Lensed Arcs and Inner Structure of Abell 697
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9909166)
The Mass Power Spectrum in Quintessence Cosmological Models
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9906174)
``Neutrinos and Dark Matter''
(astro-ph/9904001)
Galaxy Clustering and Large-Scale Structure from z=0.2 to z=0.5 in Two
Norris Redshfit Surveys
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9901194)
Redshift Evolution of the Nonlinear Two-Point Correlation Function
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9808130)
Analytical Approximation to the Nonlinear Power Spectrum of
Gravitational Clustering
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9809267)
Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure of the
Universe , ed. Y. I. Byun and K. W. Ng,
"Weighing
Superclusters"
(astro-ph/9808034)
Long-Range Correlations in Astrophysical
Systems , ed. J. R. Buchler, J. W. Dufty, and H. E. Kandrup,
Nonlinear Cosmological Structure Formation
(NYAS-online)
(astro-ph/9810001)
The Norris Survey of
the Corona Borealis Supercluster: Structure and Mass of the
Supercluster
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9708153)
Cosmological Constraints from High-Redshift Damped Lyman-alpha
Systems
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9705113)
Linear Power Spectra in Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models:
Analytical Approximations and Applications
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9605198)
Constraints on Massive Neutrinos as Hot Dark Matter
Cosmological Perturbation Theory in the
Synchronous and Conformal Newtonian Gauges
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9506072)
ed. S. Holt and C. Bennett (American Institute
of Physics, New York), p. 420.
Massive Neutrinos and Galaxy Formation
(astro-ph/9412068)
ed. D. B. Cline (World Scientific, Singapore), p. 88.
Dark Halos in Two Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models
Do Galactic Systems Form Too Late in
Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models?
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9407085)
A Calculation of the Full Neutrino Phase
Space in Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models
(abstract/full paper)
(astro-ph/9308006)
SO(10) Cosmic Strings and Baryon-Number Violation
(abstract/full paper)
(hep-ph/9211206)
4U 1626-67: The Binary with the Smallest Known Mass Function
(abstract/full paper)
The Evolutionary
Status of 4U 1820-30
(abstract/full paper)
December 2024