Prof. Karen M. Leighly

Karen M. Leighly - Group Leader

Darrin Casebeer - OU Graduate Student

Darrin is working on PHOENIX modeling of outflows in AGN.

Caitlin Finley - OU Undergraduate Student

Caitlin is working on construction of a catalog of the near-UV properties of quasars with narrow MgII lines from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (with Randi Worhatch).

Larry Maddox - OU Graduate Student

Larry is an adjunct member of the OU AGN group. He is working on the properties of the NGC 6300 host galaxy using XMM-Newton and multiwavelength data.

Kimberly Prescott - OU Graduate Student

Kimberly completed her masters thesis "Photometry and Spectrophotometry of a Heterogeneous Sample of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies" Summer 2006. She is currently a graduate student in the OU Health Sciences Medical Physics Program.

Randi Worhatch - OU Undergraduate Student

Randi is working on construction of a catalog of the near-UV properties of quasars with narrow MgII lines from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (with Caitlin Finley).

Randi is currently a graduate student at University of Texas (Austin)

Jason King - OU Undergraduate Student

Jason did his capstone Fall 2005/Spring 2006. Thesis title: Locally Optimally-Emitting Cloud Models of Active Galactic Nuclei Emission Spectra

Bobby Fleshman- OU Graduate Student

Bobby worked on XMM-Newton data from RX J0439-495

John Moore - OU undergraduate

John worked on FeII/MgII ratios in intermediate-redshift quasars drawn from the SSDS. He also worked on Chandra data from a 12-objects subsample with differing FeII/MgII ratios.

John is currently a graduate student at the University of Wyoming.

Jiehae Choi - OU Undergraduate Student

Jiehae worked on XMM-Newton data from PHL 1811, and time series analysis of long ASCA observations. Jiehae is currently a graduate student at New Mexico State University

Ryan Biesemeyer - OU undergraduate student

Ryan worked on PCA analysis of SDSS data.

Ryan is now assistant football coach at California Lutheran University.

Chiho Matsumoto - OU Postdoctoral associate

Chiho worked on Chandra grating data, and XMM-Newton data from NLS1s.

Chiho is currently at Nagoya University.

Andrea Crews - OU REU student from Carnegie Mellon University

Andrea worked on XMM-Newton data from NLS1s.

Aida Nava - OU graduate student

Aida worked on XMM-Newton data from the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 6300.

She is currently working with Dick Henry.

Toshihiro Kawaguchi - visiting graduate student from Kyoto University

Toshi worked on accretion disk models.