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Dr. Barry McKernan

Barry's research interests are Active Galactic Nuclei; Accretion onto Supermassive black holes; Multi-wavelength studies; X-ray Astrophysics; Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion disks; Hot Intergalactic medium. Hot Galactic halo. Observations of extra-galactic objects using non-redundant masking.

Current Research Projects

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Time Domain Analysis of AGN

Modeling N-body Dynamics

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Analytic Models of Disk Capture

Hydrodynamic Modeling of Disk Torques

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Stars, Supernovae, and TDEs in AGN Disks

Monte-Carlo Models of Binary Mergers in AGN Disks

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Observations of AGN at High Contrast

Gravitational Waves & Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

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