Stephanie M. Lamassa

Stephanie M. LaMassa

Contact Yale University Phone: 203-432-5575 Information Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics E-mail: [email protected] 260 Whitney Ave. http://www.astro.yale.edu/lamassa/ New Haven, CT 06520

Education The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland USA Ph.D., Astronomy & Physics, Aug. 2011 • Dissertation: “Uncovering Hidden Black Holes: Obscured AGN and Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy” • Advisors: Timothy M. Heckman, Andrew Ptak M.A., Astronomy & Physics, May 2008

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts USA B.A., Astronomy & Physics, June 2003, magna cum laude with distinction Senior Work for Distinction: “High-Beta Structures in the Solar Wind”

Science Interests Complete the census of black hole growth over cosmic time, and uncover the role supermassive black holes play in galaxy evolution.

Experience Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Associate Research Scientist Sep 2014 - present Postdoctoral Associate Aug 2011 - Aug 2013 Research in co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies from a multi-wavelength perspec- tive, utilizing X-ray, infrared and optical data. Member of the NuSTAR and Astro-H science working groups. Supervisor: Meg Urry

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Research Assistant May 2007 - July 2011 PhD thesis on X-ray, infrared and optical analysis of AGN and star formation indicators. Also ultraviolet analysis of hot gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Teaching Assistant Sep 2006 - May 2007 Led a conference section for general physics, graded exams, worked in tutoring room and held oﬃce hours. Lab instructor and grader for general physics.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts IT Specialist/Mission Planner, Chandra X-ray Observatory Aug 2003 - Aug 2006

• Mission Planning: Worked on a team to schedule observations and maintain, update and create software to facilitate mission planning. Supported re-plans as needed during anomalous activity, such as radiation shut-downs and Targets of Opportunity re-plans. • Research Assistant: Analyzed Chandra data to study properties and morphology of radio loud quasars. Analyzed XMM-Newton data of the cocoon in the Vela pulsar wind nebula.

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Research Assistant Sep 2001 - May 2003 Research in solar wind phenomena, including observational and theoretical work.

Publications • Lead author on 10 peer-reviewed articles (plus 1 submitted). • Co-author on 12 peer-reviewed articles. • Presented papers at over 25 conferences.

Invited Talks and • “Discovering Rare AGN with the Stripe 82X Survey”, St. Mary’s University, March 2014 Seminars • “Stripe 82X: A New X-ray Survey in Stripe 82”, The Multi-Wavelength, Multi-Epoch Heritage of Stripe 82, Princeton University, March 2014 • “Compton-thick AGN: The Hidden Side of Supermassive Black Hole Accretion”, Suzaku-MAXI Conference: Expanding the Frontiers of the X-ray Universe, Ehime University, February 2014 • “Investigating Obscured AGN in the Local Universe”, Harvard-CfA High Energy Astrophysics Division, February 2013 • “Investigating Obscuration Levels in Sy2s”, “Torus 2012” Workshop, UT San Antonio, December 2012 • “Hidden Black Holes: Finding Obscured AGN and Investigating Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy”, Wesleyan University, October 2012 • “Hidden Black Holes: Finding Obscured AGN and Investigating Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy”, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, February 2012 • “Finding Obscured AGN and Investigating Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy”, NASA/GSFC Stellar & Extragalactic Astronomy Lunch (SEAL) Seminar, March 2011 • “Finding Obscured AGN and Investigating Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy”, The Johns Hopkins University Center for Astrophysical Sciences, March 2011

Outreach • Leader of Astronomy on Tap CT, 2014 Experience • Women in Science at Yale mentor to 2 physics graduate students, 2012-2014 • Instructor for Girls Science Investigations at Yale University, 2012-2014 • Speaker at Astronomy On Tap NYC; Astronomy Uncorked, New Haven, CT • Invited public talk at the Intrepid, NYC • Outreach talks at local elementary schools, 2010, 2012, 2014 • New Haven Science Fair Judge, 2012-2013 • Volunteer at The Johns Hopkins University Physics Fair, 2007, 2009-2011

Professional • Reviewer for The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthy Notices of Services the Royal Astronomical Society • NASA TAC Panel Member, 12/2013 • Chandra TAC Panel Member, 6/2013 • Suzaku TAC Panel Member, 1/2013 • Organizer of the Yale Astronomy Department colloquium, fall 2013 • Organizer of the Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar, 2012-2013 • Organizer of the JHU Physics and Astronomy (PandA) diversity committee, 2010-2011

Successful • Chandra observing proposal, “The Curious Case of NGC 4968”, (PI), 2014 Proposals • XMM-Newton observing proposal, “Black Hole Growth in Luminous Quasars with the XMM- Newton Legacy Stripe 82X Survey”, 812 ks, (CoI), 2013 • Palomar & Keck infrared, WIYN optical observing proposals (PI), 2014b • Palomar & WIYN optical observing proposals (PI), 2014a

Honors and • Prize poster at Chandra’s First Decade of Discovery Awards • Rowland Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2007, The Johns Hopkins University • Space Physics Award for Excellence in the Field of Space Physics, 2003, Boston University

Skills • Experimental facilities used: Chandra, XMM-Newton, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Spitzer, WIYN, Keck, Palomar • X-ray data analysis using XSpec, CIAO and Sherpa. • Infrared spectroscopic analysis experience: Spitzer, Keck NIRSPEC • Optical spectroscopic analysis experience: Palomar DoubleSpec, WIYN HYDRA • Ultraviolet experience: FUSE • Data analysis experience in IDL and MATLAB. • Computer programming experience in Perl, Pascal and C++.

First Author 2014 Delving into X-ray Obscuration of Type 2 AGN, Near and Far (S. M. LaMassa, T. Refereed Yaqoob, A. F. Ptak, J. Jia, T. M. Heckman, P. Gandhi, C. M. Urry), in ApJ , 787, 61 Articles 2013 Finding Rare AGN: XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of SDSS Stripe 82 (S. M. LaMassa, C. M. Urry, N. Cappelluti, F. Civano, P. Ranalli, E. Glikman, E. Treister, G. Richards, D. Ballantyne, D. Stern, C. Cardamone, K. Schawinski, H. Böhringer, G. Chon, S. S. Murray, P. Green, K. Nandra), in MNRAS, 436, 3581, 2013 2013 Finding Rare AGN: X-ray Number Counts of Chandra Sources in Stripe 82 (S. M. LaMassa, C. M. Urry, E. Glickman, N. Cappelluti, F. Civano, A. Comastri, E. Treister, Arifin, H. Böhringer, C. Cardamone, G. Chon, M. Kephart, S. S. Murray, G. Richards, N. Ross, J. S. Rozner, K. Schawinski), in MNRAS, volume 432, 1351, 2013 2013 On the Star Formation-AGN Connection at z ≤0.3 (S. M. LaMassa, T. M. Heckman, A. Ptak, C. M. Urry), in ApJL volume 765, 33, 2013 2012 Disentangling AGN and Star Formation in Soft X-rays (S. M. LaMassa, T. M. Heck- man, A. Ptak), in ApJ, volume 758, 82, 2012. 2012 Exploring the Connection between Star Formation and Active Galactic Nucleus Activity in the Local Universe (S. M. LaMassa, T. M. Heckman, A. Ptak, D. Schiminovich, M. O’Dowd, B. Bertincourt), in ApJ, volume 758, 1, 2012. 2011 Uncovering Compton-thick AGN in Homogeneously Selected Samples of Seyfert 2 Galaxies (S. M. LaMassa, T. M. Heckman, A. Ptak, L. Martins, V. Wild, P. Sonnentrucker, A. Hornschemeier), in ApJ, volume 729, 42, 2011. 2010 Indicators of Intrinsic Active Galactic Nucleus Luminosity: A Multi-wavelength Approach (S. M. LaMassa, T. M. Heckman, A. Ptak, L. Martins, V. Wild, P. Sonnentrucker), in ApJ, volume 720, 786, 2010. 2009 XMM-Newton Observations of a Complete Sample of Optically Selected Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies (S. M. LaMassa, T. M. Heckman, A. Ptak, A. Hornschemeier, L. Martins, P. Sonnentrucker, C. Tremonti), in ApJ, volume 705, 568, 2009. 2008 Probing the Nature of the Vela X Cocoon (S. M. LaMassa, P. O. Slane, O. C. de Jager), in ApJL, volume 689, 121, 2008.

First Author 2014 The Discovery of the First “Changing Look” Quasar: New Insignts into the Physics Articles & Phenomenology of AGN, (S. M. LaMassa, S. Cales, E. C. Moran, A. D. Myers, G. T. Submitted Richards, M. Eracleous, T. M. Heckman, L. Gallo, C. M. Urry), submitted to ApJ

Co-Authored 2014 NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of Luminous, Heavily Obscured, WISE- Refereed Selected Quasars at z ∼ 2(D. Stern, G. B. Lansbury, R. J. Assef, W. N. Brandt, D. M. Articles Alexander, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Balkovic, D. Benford, A. Blain, S. E. Boggs, C. Bridge, M. Brightman, F. E. Christensen, A. Comastri, W. W. Craig, A. Del Moro, P. R. M. Eisenhardt, P. Gandhi, R. Griffith, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, T. H. Jarrett, M. Koss, S. Lake, S. M. LaMassa, B. Luo, C.-W Tsai, D. J. Walton, E. L. Wright, J. Wu, L. Yan, W. W. Zhang), accepted to ApJ, arXiv1403.3078S 2014 NuSTAR Unveils a Compton-thick Type 2 Quasar in Mrk 34 (P. Gandhi, G. B. Lans- bury, D. M. Alexander, D. Stern, P. Arévalo, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Baloković, F. E. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, M. Brightman, F. E. Christensen, A. Comastri, W W. Craig, A. Del Moro, M. Elvis, A. C. Fabian, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, M. Koss, S. M. LaMassa, B. Luo, G. M. Madejski, A. F. Ptak, S. Puccetti, S. H. Teng, C. M. Urry, D. J. Walton, W. W. Zhang, in ApJ, 792, 117 2014 NuSTAR J033202-2746.8: direct constraints on the Compton reflection in a heavily obscured quasar at z ∼2 (A. Del Moro, J. R. Mullaney, D. M. Alexander, A. Comastri, F. E. Bauer, E. Treister, D. Stern, F. Civano, P. Ranalli, C. Vignali, J. A. Aird, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Balokovic, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, P. Gandhi, R. Gilli, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, S. M. LaMassa, G. B. Lansbury, B. Luo, S. Puccetti, M. Urry, W. W. Zhang), in ApJ, 786, 16 2014 NuSTAR Observations of Heavily Obscured Quasars at z ∼ 0.5 (G. B. Lansbury, D. M. Alexander, A. Del Moro, P. Gandhi, R. J. Assef, D. Stern, J. Aird, D. R. Ballantyne, F. E. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, F. E. Christennsen, W. W. Craig, M. Elvis, B. W. Grefenstette, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, M. Koss, S. M. LaMassa, B. Luo, J. R. Mullaney, S. H. Teng, C. M. Urry, W. W. Zhang), in ApJ, 785, 17 2011 Evidence for Black Hole Growth in Local Analogs to Lyman Break Galaxies (J. Jianjun, A. Ptak, T. M. Heckman, R. A. Overzier, A. Hornschemeier, S. LaMassa), In ApJ, volume 731, 55, 2011. 2010 Optical vs. infrared studies of dusty galaxies and AGN: (I) Nebular emission lines (V. Wild, B. Groves, T. Heckman, P. Sonnentrucker, L. Armus, D. Schiminovich, B. Johnson, L. Martins, S. LaMassa), in MNRAS, volume 410, 1593, 2010. 2009 The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Legacy in the Magellanic Clouds: An Online Stellar Sight Line Atlas (W. P. Blair, C. Oliveira, S. Lamassa, S. Gutman, C. W. Danforth, A. W. Fullerton, R. Sankrit, R. Gruendl), in PASP, volume 121, 634, 2009. 2008 Probing the Radio to X-Ray Connection of the Vela X Pulsar Wind Nebula with Fermi LAT and H.E.S.S. (O. C. de Jager, P. O. Slane, S. LaMassa), in ApJL, volume 689, 125, 2008. 2008 X-Ray Properties of the Gigahertz Peaked and Compact Steep Spectrum Sources (A. Siemiginowska, S. LaMassa, T. L. Aldcroft, J. Bechtold, M. Elvis), in ApJ, volume 684, 811, 2008. 2005 X-Ray Cluster Associated with the z = 1.063 CSS Quasar 3C 186: The Jet is Not Frustrated (A. Siemiginowska, C. C. Cheung, S. LaMassa, D. J. Burke, T. L. Aldcroft, J. Bechtold, M. Elvis, D. M. Worrall), in ApJ, volume 632, 110, 2005. 2004 Heliospheric plasma sheets (N. U. Crooker, C.-L. Huang, S. M. Lamassa, D. E. Larson, S. W. Kahler, H. E. Spence), in Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), volume 109, 03107, 2004. 2003 Suprathermal electron isotropy in high-beta solar wind and its role in heat flux dropouts (N. U. Crooker, D. E. Larson, S. W. Kahler, S. M. Lamassa, H. E. Spence), in GRL, volume 30, 12, 2003.

First-Author 2014 Unveiling Obscured AGN with X-ray Spectral Analysis, HEAD, 14 Conference 2014 Investigating the AGN/Star-formation Connection in Local Obscured AGN, The Fate Presentations of Gas in Galaxies: AGN vs. Star Formation 2014 Discovering Rare AGN with Stripe 82X, The X-ray Universe 2014 2014 Unveiling Obscured AGN with X-ray Spectral Analysis, American Astronomical Society, 224 2014 The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes Over Cosmic Time: Studying the Lu- minous Quasars that Dominate the Total Black Hole Mass, Multiwavelength-surveys: Galaxy Formation and Evolution from the early universe to today 2014 Stripe 82X: A New X-ray Survey in Stripe 82 - Invited Talk, The Multi-Wavelength, Multi-Epoch Heritage of Stripe 82 2014 Compton-thick AGN: The Hidden Side of Supermassive Black Hole Accretion - Invited Talk, Suzaku-MAXI 2014: Expanding the Frontiers of the X-ray Universe 2014 Investigating the AGN-Star formation Connection in the Local Universe, American Astronomical Society, 223 2013 The AGN-Star Formation Connection in the Local Universe, Black Hole (g)Astronomy - Exploring the Diﬀerent Flavors of Black Hole Accretion 2013 Stripe 82 X: X-ray Survey of SDSS Stripe 82, HEAD, 13 2013 Stripe 82 ACX: Archival Chandra Observations in SDSS Stripe 82, American Astro- nomical Society, 221 2012 Investigating Obscuration Levels in Sy2s - Invited Talk, Torus Workshop 2012 The Space Density of X-ray sources in SDSS Stripe 82, Half a Centery of X-ray Astron- omy 2012 Galaxy Zoo: Testing the Relationship betwen AGN Identiﬁcation and Host Galaxy Inclination, American Astronomical Society, 220 2012 The Space Density of X-ray Selected AGN in Stripe 82, American Astronomical Society, 219 2011 Disentangling AGN and Starburst Activity in Soft X-rays, HEAD 2011 Multi-wavelength Diagnostics of the AGN/Star-formation Connection, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 43 2011 Finding Obscured AGNs and Investigating Their Relationships to the Host Galaxy, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 43 2010 X-ray Analysis of Seyfert 2 Galaxies: Uncovering the Compton-Thick Population, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 41 2010 Optical and IR Indicators of Intrinsic AGN Luminosity, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 41 2009 XMM-Newton Observations of a Complete Sample of Optically Selected Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies, in Chandra’s First Decade of Discovery (A. Fruscione, D. Swartz, & S. Wolk, ed.) 2009 XMM-Newton Observations of Optically Selected Type 2 AGN, volume 41, 2009 2007 Observations Of OVI Absorption In The Lmc: Superbubble Vs Non-superbubble Sight Lines in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 38 2006 Investigation of the Vela X Emission, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 38 2006 Revisiting the Southern Vela ”Jet”, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 38 2005 X-ray Properties of Compact Radio Sources, in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, volume 37 2005 X-ray Properties of the GigaHertz-Peaked and Compact Stepp Spectrum Sources, Six Years of Science with Chandra Symposium 2004 Chandra Discovery of an X-ray cluster at redshift 1 in Bulletin of the American Astro- nomical Society, volume 36