Research, Alice Quillen

I have used high angular resolution observations to search for and probe sources associated with accretion onto a massive black hole in the center of galaxies. We have focused on the ways that these active nuclear sources affect their nearby environment.
Review talk on Centaurus A, Infrared view (June 2009)
Talk on Spitzer observations of Centaurus A and episodic star formation.

The warped disk of Cen A from 2 to 6500 kpc, compiled from tilted ring fits in 5 different wavelength ranges, astroph ADS This system is as interesting as the NGC 4258 maser disk but much less well known.

Movie of my model of Cen A's warped dusty disk, (changing angle!)

Bob Hurt's movie showing visible, near-IR and mid-IR (Spitzer) imaging along with my model.
Spitzer observations of nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A and discovery of a 400pc long ionization cone and a 500pc shell, Spitzer spectroscopic mapping , Discovery of a 500 pc shell in the nucleus of Centaurus A , PDF and Spitzer observations of the dusty warped disk of Centaurus A , PDF
A warped disk in a radio galaxy: Another form of feedback from an active galactic nucleus (Grant's paper), The warped nuclear disk of Radio Galaxy 3C449
The discovery of many unresolved continuum sources at the nuclei of Seyfert galaxies, The Multitude of Unresolved Continuum Sources at 1.6 Microns in Hubble Space Telescope Images of Seyfert Galaxies , PDF
Their spectral energy distributions (with Almudena!) Spectral Energy Distributions of Seyfert Nuclei
The variability of these sources The Variability of Seyfert 1.8 and 1.9 Galaxies at 1.6 Microns , PDF
On submillimeter observations of nearby radio galaxies, 870 micron observations of nearby 3CRR radio galaxies , PDF
A way to make a warped disk The warped disk of Centaurus A in the near-infrared
Another way to make a warped disk, A Wind-driven Warping Instability in Accretion Disks , PDF

It was really nice to be involved with a study of brightest cluster galaxies led by Chris O'Dea and Stefi Baum.