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I have research interests in quasars, active galactic nuclei (AGN), the formation and co-evolution of galaxies and super-massive black holes, AGN outflows and feedback, quasar spectral diversity, reverberation mapping, AGN accretion disks, Tidal disruption events.

 

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Publications:  (Click on the title to go the ADS page)

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  1. SDSS J092712.64+294344.0: recoiling blackhole or merging galaxies? Vivek, M.; Srianand, R.; Noterdaeme, P.; Mohan, V.; Kuriakose, V. C.  2009, MNRAS, 400, 6

  2. Dynamically evolving Mg II broad absorption line flow in SDSS J133356.02+001229.1, Vivek, M.; Srianand, R.; Mahabal, A.; Kuriakose, V. C., 2012, MNRAS, 421,107

  3. Probing the time variability of five Fe low broad absorption-line quasars, Vivek, M.; Srianand, R.; Petitjean, P.; Noterdaeme, P.; Mohan, V.; Mahabal, A.; Kuriakose, V. C., 2012, MNRAS, 423, 2879

  4. Variability in Low Ionization Broad Absorption Line outflows, Vivek, M.; Srianand, R.; Petitjean, P.; Mohan, V.; Mahabal, A.; Samui, S., 2014, MNRAS, 440, 799

  5. Megaparsec Relativistic Jets Launched from an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole in an Extreme Spiral Galaxy, Bagchi, Joydeep; Vivek, M.; Vikram, Vinu; Hota, Ananda; Biju, K. G.; Sirothia, S. K.; Srianand, Raghunathan; Gopal-Krishna; Jacob, Joe, 2014, ApJ, 788, 174

  6. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Rapid CIV Broad Absorption Line Variability,Grier, C. J.; Hall, P. B.; Brandt, W. N.; Trump, J. R.; Shen, Yue; Vivek, M.; Filiz Ak, N.; Chen, Yuguang; Dawson, K. S.; Denney, K. D, 2015, ApJ, 806,111

  7. Circumnuclear and infalling H I gas in a merging galaxy pair at z = 0.123, Srianand, R.; Gupta, N.; Momjian, E.; Vivek, M., 2015, MNRAS, 451, 917

  8. The Composite Spectrum of BOSS Quasars Selected for Studies of the Lyα Forest, Harris, David W.; Jensen, Trey W.; Suzuki, Nao; Bautista, Julian E.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Vivek, M.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Ge, Jian; Hamann, Fred; Herbst, H, 2016, AJ, 151, 155

  9. C IV Broad Absorption Line Acceleration in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars, Grier, C. J.; Brandt, W. N.; Hall, P. B.; Trump, J. R.; Filiz Ak, N.; Anderson, S. F.; Green, Paul J.; Schneider, D. P.; Sun, M.; Vivek, M., 2016, ApJ, 824, 130

  10. `Zwicky's Nonet': a compact merging ensemble of nine galaxies and 4C 35.06, a peculiar radio galaxy with dancing radio jets,
    Biju, K. G.; Bagchi, Joydeep; Ishwara-Chandra C., H.; Pandey-Pommier, M.; Jacob, Joe; Patil, M. K.; Sunil Kumar, P.; Pandge, Mahadev; Dabhade, Pratik; Gaikwad, Madhuri; Abraham, Sheelu; Vivek, M.; Mahabal, Ashish A.; Djorgovski, S. G., 2016, arXiv, 160705080B

  11. The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory, SDSS Collaboration et al., 2016, arXiv,160802013S

  12. Spectral Evolution in High Redshift Quasars from the Final BOSS Sample, Jensen, Trey W.; Vivek, M.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Anderson, Scott F.; Bautista, Julian; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brandt, William N.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Green, Paul; Harris, David W,  2016, ApJ, 833, 199

  13. Redshift Measurement and Spectral Classification for eBOSS Galaxies with the redmonster Software, Hutchinson, Timothy A. et al,  2016, AJ, 152, 205

  14. SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey, Comparet et al, 2016, A&A, 592A, 121

  15. The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminous Red Galaxy Target Selection, Prakash et al., 2016, ApJS, 224, 34

  16. The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data, Dawson et al.,  2016, AJ, 151, 44

  17. Transient C IV broad absorption lines in radio-detected QSOs, {\bf Vivek M.}, Srianand R., Gupta N. , 2016, MNRAS, 455, 136

  18. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe, Blanton et al., 2017, AJ, 154, 28

  19. Broad absorption line disappearance and emergence using multiple-epoch spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, McGraw et al.+10 coauthors, 2017, MNRAS, 469, 3163

  20. The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: final emission line galaxy target selection, Raichoor et al.+24 coauthors,  2017, MNRAS, 471, 3955

  21. The Time-Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Target Selection for Repeat Spectroscopy, MacLeoad et al.+36 coauthors, 2018, AJ, 155

  22. The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory, Albareti et al. + SDSS collaboration, submitted to ApJS, 2017, ApJS, 233, 25

  23. The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Sky Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, Bela et al. + SDSS collaboration, submitted to ApJS, 2018, 235, 42,

  24. Revealing H I gas in emission and absorption on pc to kpc scales in a galaxy at z ˜ 0.017, Gupta N.,  Srianand R., Farnes J. S., Pidopryhora Y.,{ Vivek M.} et al. 2018, MNRAS, 476, 2432

  25. The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: first measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2, Ata et al.,2018, MNRAS, 473, 4773

  26. The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measurement of the growth rate of structure from the anisotropic correlation function between redshift 0.8 and 2.2, Zarrouk et al, 2018, MNRAS, 477, 1639

  27. Rapidly varying Mg II broad absorption line quasar: SDSS J133329.2+001256.01, Vivek M., Srianand R., Dawson K., MNRAS,2018, 481, 5570

  28. X-ray and multi-epoch optical/UV investigations of BAL to non-BAL quasar transformations, Sameer, Brandt W.N., Hall P., Vivek M. et al., Accepted in MNRAS,2019, MNRAS, 482,1121

  29. Systematic Investigations of Short-Timescale BAL Variability in SDSS-RM sample, Helmer et al. including Vivek M., 2019, ApJ, 872, 21

  30. The Spectroscopic signature of variability in high-redshift quasars, Dyer J., Dawson K., Helion D., Vivek M. et al.,,ApJ, 2019, 880, 78

  31. Highly Complete AGN Selection in the Stripe82X Region, LaMassa S., Antonis G., Vivek M., et al, 2019, ApJ, 876, 50

  32. Broad Absorption Line Disappearance/Emergence in Multiple Ions in a Weak Emission-line Quasar, Yi W, Vivek M. et al. 2019, ApJ, 870, 5

  33. Ionization-driven intrinsic absorption line variability of BAL quasars in the Stripe 82 region, Vivek M., 2019, MNRAS, 486, 2379,(single author)

  34. Variability of Low-ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars Based on Multi-epoch Spectra from The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Yi W., Brandt W.N, Hall P.B., Vivek M. et al. 2019, ApJS, 242, 28, 

  35. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Initial CIV Lag Results from Four Years of Data, Grier et al. including Vivek M.,submitted to AAS, 2019, arXiv:1904.03199

  36. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Accretion and Broad Emission Line Physics from a Hypervariable Quasar, Dexter et al. including Vivek M., submitted to AAS ,2019, arXiv:1906.10138

  37. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Improving Lag Detection with an Extended Multi-Year Baseline, Shen et al. including Vivek M., submitted to AAS,2019, arXiv:1908.00027

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