Joint NRAO/Chandra Accepted Cycle 20 Targets and Abstracts
Proposal Number
Subject Category
PI Name
Chandra Time
Title
21700004
ACTIVE GALAXIES AND QUASARS
Paulina Lira
24.00ks
Confiming the nature of IMBHs
selected from the SIBLING survey
Subject Category: ACTIVE GALAXIES AND QUASARS
Proposal Number: 21700004
Title: Confiming the nature of IMBHs selected from the SIBLING survey
PI Name: Paulina Lira
We propose to conduct a sensitive search for radio and X-ray sources
in the nuclei of three nearby galaxies that
have been selected as candidate Intermediate Black Hole Mass (IMBH)
hosts from the SIBLING survey. SIBLING
represents a unique search for IMBH using a high cadence, deep and
wide survey that has allowed us to identify
candidate IMBH with an efficiency ~40 times grater than previous
techniques. The results from SIBLING will put
much tighter constraints on the occupation number of BHs in the low
mass regime and might be able to finally solve
the unknown origin of Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) in the center
of massive galaxies.