The evolution of the densest systems in the Universe, from the first billion years to now, requires integrating observations from the entire electromagnetic spectrum and from ground-based and space-based observatories. I bring a multi-wavelength perspective to the analysis of the earliest AGN, the growth of cluster galaxies, and the interfaces with the cosmic web.
A complete version of my CV, in PDF form, can be found here.
Alternatively, only the publications can be accessed here.
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2016
PhD
Michigan State University Advisor: Megan Donahue
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2013
MS
Michigan State University
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2011
BS
Case Western Reserve University
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Enhanced X-ray Emission from the Most Radio-Powerful Quasar in the Universe's First Billion Years
Connor T.; Bañados, E.; Stern, D.; Carilli, C; Fabian, A; Momjian, E; Rojas-Ruiz, S; Decarli, R; Farina, E. P.; Mazzucchelli, C; Earnshaw, H. P. 2021 ApJ, 911, 120
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X-ray Observations of a [C II]-bright, z=6.59 Quasar/Companion System
Connor T.; Bañados, E.; Mazzucchelli, C.; Stern, D.; Decarli, R.; Fan, X.; Farina, E. P.; Lusso, E.; Neeleman, M.; Walter, F. 2020 ApJ, 900, 189
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X-ray Observations of a z~6.2 Quasar/Galaxy Merger
Connor T.; Bañados, E.; Stern, D.; Decarli, R.; Schindler, J.-T.; Fan, X.; Farina, E. P.; Mazzucchelli, C.; Mulchaey, J.S.; Walter, F. 2019 ApJ, 887, 171
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COS Observations of the Cosmic Web: A Search for the Cooler Components of a Hot, X-ray Identified Filament
Connor T.; Zahedy, F.; Chen, H-W; Cooper, T.J.; Mulchaey, J.S.; Vikhlinin, A. 2019 ApJL, 884, 20
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Assembling a RELIC at Redshift 1: Spectroscopic Observations of Galaxies in the RELICS Cluster SPT-CLJ0615-5746
Connor T.; Kelson D.D.; Blanc G.A.; Boutsia K. 2019 ApJ, 878, 66
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On the Origin of the Scatter in the Red Sequence: An Analysis of Four CLASH Clusters
Connor T.; Kelson D.D.; Donahue, M; Moustakas, J. 2019 ApJ, 875, 16
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Wide-Field Optical Spectroscopy of Abell 133: A Search for Filaments Reported in X-ray Observations
Connor T.; Kelson D.D.; Mulchaey, J.; Vikhlinin, A; Patel, S; Balogh, M; Joshi, G; Kraft, R; Nagai, D; & Starikova, S 2018 ApJ, 867, 25
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Chandra X-Rays from the Redshift 7.54 Quasar ULAS J1342+0928
Bañados, E.; Connor T.; Stern, D.; Mulchaey, J.; Fan, X.; Decarli, R.; Farina, E.P.; Mazzucchelli, C.; Venemans, B.P.; Walter, F.; Wang, F.; Yang, J. 2018 ApJ, 856L, 25
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Crowded Field Galaxy Photometry: Precision Colors in the CLASH Clusters
Connor T.; Donahue, M; Kelson D.D.; Moustakas, J.; Coe, D.; Postman, M.; Bradley, L.D.; Koekemoer, A.M.; Melchior, P.; Umetsu, K.; Voit, G.M. 2017 ApJ, 848, 37
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Observations of Lyα and O VI: Signatures of Cooling and Star Formation in a Massive Central Cluster Galaxy
Donahue, M; Connor T.; Voit, G.M.; Postman, M. 2017 ApJ, 835, 216
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Ultraviolet Morphology and Unobscured UV Star Formation Rates of CLASH Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Donahue, M; Connor T.; Fogarty, K.; Li, Y.; Voit, G.M.; Postman, M.; Koekemoer, A.; Moustakas, J.; Bradley, L.; Ford, H. 2015 ApJ, 805, 177
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Scaling Relations and X-Ray Properties of Moderate-luminosity Galaxy Clusters from 0.3 < z < 0.6 with XMM-Newton
Connor T.; Donahue, M; Sun, M.; Hoekstra, H.; Mahdavi, A.; Conselice, C.J.; McNamara, B. 2014 ApJ, 794, 48
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Chandra and Magellan/FIRE follow-up observations of PSO167-13: an X-ray weak QSO at z=6.515
Vito, F. et al. (Connor, T: 5), 2021, A&A, accepted
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The Discovery of a Highly Accreting, Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.82
Bañados, E. et al. (Connor, T: 7), 2021, ApJ, 909, 80
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A Luminous Quasar at Redshift 7.642
Wang, F. et al. (Connor, T: 9), 2021, ApJL, 907, 1
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The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. X. Initial Results from a Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Study of Massive Galaxy Clusters at z > 1 Using MUSTANG2 on the GBT
Dicker, S.R. et al. (Connor, T: 9), 2020, ApJ, 902, 144
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Properties of the Hot Ambient Medium of Early-type Galaxies Hosting Powerful Radio Sources
Frisbie, R.L.S. et al. (Connor, T: 4), 2020, ApJ, 899, 159
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The Rise and Fall of ASASSN-18pg: Following a TDE from Early to Late Times
Holoien, T. et al. (Connor, T: 18), 2020, ApJ, 898, 161
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The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. IX. High Radio Activity in a Merging Cluster
Moravec, E. et al. (Connor, T: 7), 2020, ApJ, 898, 145
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The BUFFALO HST Survey
Steinhardt, C.L. et al. (Connor, T: 35), 2020, ApJS, 247, 64
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Setting the scene for BUFFALO: A study of the matter distribution in the HFF galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 and its parallel field
Gonzalez, E.J. et al. (Connor, T: 11), 2020, MNRAS, 494, 349
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Stellar-mass Measurements in A133 with Magellan/IMACS
Starikova, S. et al. (Connor, T: 5), 2020, ApJ, 892, 34
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The Most Rapidly-Declining Type I Supernova 2019bkc/ATLAS19dqr
Ping, C. et al. (Connor, T: 17), 2020, ApJL, 889L, 6
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The Growth of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Intracluster Light Over the Past Ten Billion Years
DeMaio, T. et al. (Connor, T: 7), 2020, MNRAS, 491, 3751
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The Physical Origins of the Identified and Still Missing Components of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium: Insights from Deep Surveys in the Field of Blazar 1ES1553+113
Johnson, S. et al. (Connor, T: 5), 2019, ApJL, 884L, 31
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Discovery and Early Evolution of ASASSN-19bt, the First TDE Detected by TESS
Holoien, T.W. et al. (Connor, T: 19), ApJ, 883, 111
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The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). A massive multi-phase outflow impacting the edge-on galaxy HE1353-1917
Husemann, B. et al. (Connor, T: 11), 2019, A&A, 627, 53
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Powerful AGN jets and unbalanced cooling in the hot atmosphere of IC 4296
Grossova, R. et al. (Connor, T: 11), 2019, MNRAS, 488, 1917
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Cooling in the X-ray halo of the rotating, massive early-type galaxy NGC 7049
Juráñová, A. et al. (Connor, T: 11), 2019, MNRAS, 484, 2886
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Thermodynamic properties, multiphase gas and AGN feedback in a large sample of giant ellipticals
Lakhchaura, K. et al. (Connor, T: 7), 2018, MNRAS, 481, 4472
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Lost but not forgotten: intracluster light in galaxy groups and clusters
DeMaio, T. et al. (Connor, T: 5), 2018, MNRAS, 474, 3009
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Globular and Open Clusters Observed by SDSS/SEGUE: The Giant Stars
Morrison, H.L. et al. (Connor, T: 5), 2016, AJ, 151, 7
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Star Formation Activity in CLASH Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Fogarty, K et al. (Connor, T: 3), 2015, ApJ, 813, 117
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The origin of cold gas in giant elliptical galaxies and its role in fuelling radio-mode AGN feedback
Werner, N. et al. (Connor, T: 9), 2014, MNRAS, 439, 2291
On the Nature of Galaxy Clusters as Archaeological Records
February 2021 -- Carnegie Observatories Colloquium (Virtual)
Multiwavelength Insights into the Growth and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
October 2020 -- CfA Galaxy Cluster Group (Virtual)
The Current Status of X-ray Observations of High-z Quasars
March 2020 -- Black Holes and Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe (Ringberg)
X-ray Observations of Quasars in the First Billion Years of the Universe: Searching for AGN Activity in Companions
January 2020 -- AAS Meeting
X-rays from the Cosmic Web: The Case of Abell 133
September 2019 -- X-Ray Astronomy 2019
Taking the Red Sequence Offline
July 2019 -- Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Clusters of Galaxies (Sexten 2019)
Observing the Cosmic Web at the cluster boundary: a multi-wavelength campaign to detect cosmic filaments
January 2019 -- AAS Meeting
Building a Galaxy Cluster
October 2018 -- University of Alabama at Huntsville Physics Seminar
Cosmic Filaments & AXIS
August 2018 -- AXIS 2018 Summer Workshop
Optical Observations of Cluster Filaments
June 2018 -- Alabama WHIM 2018
Tying Clusters Onto the Cosmic Web with X-rays
March 2018 -- SnowCluster 2018
Observations of Infall into Abell 133
December 2016 -- 4th Magellan Science Symposium
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Galaxy Clusters: Population Evolution and Scaling Relations for Intermediate-Redshift Clusters
July 2016 -- Thesis Defense
Inclusive Astronomy, Inclusive Physics: Working Toward a Better Future in our Fields
February 2016 -- MSU PGO Lunch Talk
Crowded Field Photometry in the CLASH Clusters: Measuring the Red Sequence of Cluster Galaxies with Robust Photometry
January 2016 -- AAS Meeting
Seeing the Trees for the Forest: An Optimized Census of Galaxy Clusters
September 2015 -- MSU PGO Lunch Talk
Photometry of CLASH Cluster Galaxies (Poster)
March 2015 -- SnowCluster 2015
A Beginner’s Guide to Galaxy Clusters
October 2014 -- MSU PGO Lunch Talk
Optimal Photometric Measurements for Determining the Stellar Masses of BCGs and Galaxy Clusters
September 2013 -- CLASH Team Science Meeting
Optical Morphology of Faint Radio Sources in the GOODS-N Field (Poster)
January 2011 -- AAS Meeting
Hubble Space Telescope: ACS, WFC3, UVIS, COS
Chandra X-ray Observatory
XMM-Newton
Gemini: North: GMOS
Keck: I: MOSFIRE
Magellan: Baade: IMACS, GISMO, FIRE, FourStar, Mage
Magellan: Clay: LDSS3
Hale Telescope: Double Spectrograph, TripleSpec, WIRC
SOAR: Goodman High-Throughput Spectrograph, SOI, Spartan IR Camera
DuPont: Direct CCD, Wide-field CCD, Echelle
CWRU Burrell-Schmidt
At Carnegie, I served as a postdoc liaison 2017-2019; this required acting as liaison between the Observatories postdocs and the Director, President, and other interested parties. I was a member of the AAS President's Early Career Advisory Board for the duration of its existence. At Michigan State I, among other responsibilites, co-coordinated a revitilization of our grad student recruitment weekend.
My outreach activities include numerous departmental events -- notably, organizing and running the spectroscopy display at the yearly Carnegie Open House. I am also involved in the Mt. Wilson STEM Education Program. I have talked at and assisted at Astronomy on Tap, and volunteered at Campus Open House events at MSU.