Welcome to the Boizelle Research Group
We study the circumnuclear regions of nearby massive galaxies to measure supermassive black holes (BHs) and probe their gaseous environment, primarily in elliptical and lenticular galaxies. This research uses resolved imaging and spectroscopy to:
- map out and model gaseous kinematics and measure BH masses
- constrain dust thermal and absorption properties
- study circumnuclear disk formation scenarios
- estimate star formation efficiencies in molecular gas disks
- monitor active galactic nuclei for both reverberation mapping campaigns and continuum variability studies
Much of this work relies on some of the premier telescopes in this discipline, including the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Northern Chile. Additional data is obtained from the ARC 3.5m telescope, the GALEX ultraviolet telescope, the Very Large Array, and West Mountain Observatory.