Ryan Hickox
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor Hickox is an observational astrophysicist with primary interests in supermassive black holes and the evolution of galaxies. He has a B.S. in Physics (2000) from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Astronomy (2007) from Harvard University. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Durham University in the UK, and joined Dartmouth College in December 2011. His research has been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation (including a CAREER award), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
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Department(s)
Physics and Astronomy
Education
- B.S. Yale University
- Ph.D. Harvard University
Selected Publications
Petter, Grayson C., Hickox, Ryan C., Alexander, David M., Myers, Adam D., Geach, James E., Whalen, Kelly E., Andonie, Carolina P., "Host Dark Matter Halos of WISE-selected Obscured & Unobscured Quasars: Evidence for Evolution", The Astrophysical Journal (2023), 946, 27
Kelly E. Whalen, Ryan C. Hickox, et al., "The Space Density of Intermediate Redshift, Extremely Compact, Massive Starburst Galaxies", The Astronomical Journal (2022), 164, 222
Christopher M. Carroll, Ryan C. Hickox, Alberto Masini, Lauranne Lanz, Roberto J. Assef, Daniel Stern, Chien-Ting J. Chen, "A Large Population of Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei Lacking X-ray Detections: Evidence for Heavy Obscuration?", The Astrophysical Journal (2021) 908, 185
Brumback, M. C., Hickox, R. C., Fürst, F. S., Pottschmidt, K., Tomsick, J. A., Wilms, J., "Modeling the Precession of the Warped Inner Accretion Disk in the Pulsars LMC X-4 and SMC X-1 with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton", The Astrophysical Journal, 888 (2020), 185
Works In Progress
Connection between supermassive black hole growth and star formation in galaxies with Herschel and Chandra data; Spectral energy distributions, selection, and clustering of obscured quasars with SDSS, WISE, SALT, and NuSTAR; X-ray stacking analyses with Chandra and NuSTAR