Introduction
Hi, I am a postdoctoral research fellow working with Elena Gallo in the Department of Astronomy at University of Michigan. Before that, I received my Ph.D. at The Pennsylvania State University (advisor: Niel Brandt) in 2024 and my B.S. at University of Science and Technology of China in 2019.
Broadly speaking, I am interested in massive black holes (MBHs) and galaxies, with a strong focus on multiwavelength data covering from X-ray to radio. The symbolic interactions between galaxies and their MBHs have strongly shaped both populations. I have been using active galactic nuclei (AGNs) as probes to understand the MBH-galaxy coevolution across cosmic time. I have a broad spectrum of experience on this topic, covering low (i.e., data) to high (i.e., science) levels.
Here is my CV. You can find my publications here.
Research
I list me first- or corresponding-author articles below. They are grouped by topics.
Survey data
- Spectral Energy Distributions in Three Deep-drilling Fields of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: Source Classification and Galaxy Properties (Zou+22; data)
- Photometric Redshifts in the W-CDF-S and ELAIS-S1 Fields Based on Forced Photometry from 0.36 to 4.5 Microns (Zou+21b; data)
- A Multi-band Forced-photometry Catalog in the ELAIS-S1 Field (Zou+21a; data)
Correlation and coevolution between SMBHs and galaxies
- Investigating the Star Formation Characteristics of Radio Active Galactic Nuclei (Zhang+25)
- Mapping the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes as a Function of Galaxy Stellar Mass and Redshift (Zou+24b; data)
- The Cosmic Evolution of the Supermassive Black Hole Population: A Hybrid Observed Accretion and Simulated Mergers Approach (Zou+24a)
- Investigating the Star Formation Rates of Active Galactic Nucleus Hosts Relative to the Star-forming Main Sequence (Cristello+24a)
- The Host-galaxy Properties of Type 1 versus Type 2 Active Galactic Nuclei (Zou+19)
Dwarf galaxies and intermediate-mass black holes
- Central Massive Black Holes Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-Mass Galaxies (Zou+submitted)
- Identification and Characterization of a Large Sample of Distant Active Dwarf Galaxies in XMM-SERVS (Zou+23)
Dust-obscured galaxies
- The X-ray Link Between High Eddington Ratio Dust-Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) and Hot DOGs (Zou+submitted)
- A Rapidly Accreting Active Galactic Nucleus Hidden in a Dust-obscured Galaxy at z ∼ 0.8 (Cristello+24b)
- X-ray properties of dust-obscured galaxies with broad optical/UV emission lines (Zou+20)
External links
Extreme Astrophysics Seminar at UMich
The XMM-SERVS Survey
arXiv
ADS
SVO filters
Meetings
You can reach me at fanzou01@gmail.com.