Research area
Using resolved Fe K emission and broadband X-ray spectroscopy to probe heavily obscured accretion and circumnuclear structure.
Observational approach
I use Chandra imaging spectroscopy together with broadband X-ray constraints to separate compact nuclear emission from spatially extended Fe K and continuum components.
Observatories
Physical interpretation
Resolved Fe K emission constrains the distribution of circumnuclear reprocessing material; a fast outflow requires independent spectroscopic evidence and is not inferred from spatial extension alone.
Scientific questions
How is X-ray-reprocessing material distributed around a heavily obscured nucleus?
What can resolved Fe K emission reveal about circumnuclear reprocessing structures, and what independent spectral evidence is required to infer fast outflows?
How can nuclear emission be separated from extended circumnuclear components?
Selected work
