Collaborative Research: The Hidden Side of Rapidly Growing Black Holes: Host Masses and Evolution of Obscured Quasars with SDSS and WISE

该项目的目标是将斯隆数字巡天（SDSS）和宽视场红外巡天探测器（WISE）的数据联合收割机结合起来，对被遮蔽类星体的空间聚集情况进行高精度测量。科学目标是确定被遮蔽的类星体群是否与未被遮蔽的类星体有不同的起源，例如它们是否生活在较大的暗物质晕中。 这项工作的更广泛的影响包括培训本科生，并通过与怀俄明州大学中等教育系合作的暑期讲习班向中学教师推广，主要目标是提高怀俄明州和新罕布什尔州的中学物理教育质量。

The goal of this project is to combine data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to provide a high-precision measurement of the spatial clustering of obscured quasars. The scientific objective is to establish if the obscured QSO population has a different origin from unobscured QSOs, for example if they live in larger dark matter halos. This may lead to important new probes Dark Matter Halo structures and the evolution of galaxies.Broader impacts of the work include training of undergraduate students, and outreach to middle-school teachers via summer workshops in collaboration with the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Wyoming, with the primary goal of increasing the quality of middle- and secondary-level physics education in Wyoming and New Hampshire.