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Publications

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    Davis, Benjamin L., Mohamad Ali-Dib, Yujia Zheng, Zehao Jin, Kun Zhang, and Andrea Valerio Macciò. "Causal evidence for the primordiality of colours in trans-Neptunian objects." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 543, no. 1 (2025): L34-L42.

    Khan, Fazeel Mahmood, Benjamin L. Davis, Andrea Valerio Macciò, and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann. "Where Have All the Little Red Dots Gone? Supermassive Black Hole Binary Dynamics and Its Impact on Galaxy Properties." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 986, no. 1 (2025): L1.

    Jin, Zehao, Mario Pasquato, Benjamin L. Davis, Tristan Deleu, Yu Luo, Changhyun Cho, Pablo Lemos et al. "Causal discovery in astrophysics: Unraveling supermassive black hole and galaxy coevolution." The Astrophysical Journal 979, no. 2 (2025): 212.

    Waterval, Stefan, Andrea V. Macciò, Tobias Buck, Aura Obreja, Changhyun Cho, Zehao Jin, Benjamin L. Davis, Keri L. Dixon, and Xi Kang. "HELLO project: high-z evolution of large and luminous objects." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 533, no. 2 (2024): 1463-1484.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Alister W. Graham, Roberto Soria, Zehao Jin, Igor D. Karachentsev, Valentina E. Karachentseva, and Elena D’Onghia. "Identification of Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates among a Sample of Sd Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal 971, no. 2 (2024): 123.

    Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Jeff Andrews, Manuel Arca Sedda, Abbas Askar, Quentin Baghi, Razvan Balasov, Imre Bartos et al. "Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna." Living Reviews in Relativity 26, no. 1 (2023): 2.

    Davis, Benjamin L., and Zehao Jin. "Discovery of a planar black hole mass scaling relation for spiral galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 956, no. 1 (2023): L22.

    Shields, Deanna, Benjamin Boe, Casey Pfountz, Benjamin L. Davis, Matthew Hartley, Ryan Miller, Zac Slade, M. Shameer Abdeen, Daniel Kennefick, and Julia Kennefick. "Spirality: A Novel Way to Measure Spiral Arm Pitch Angle." Galaxies 10, no. 5 (2022): 100.

    Abdeen, Shameer, Benjamin L. Davis, Rafael Eufrasio, Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick, Ryan Miller, Deanna Shields, Erik B. Monson, Calla Bassett, and Harry O’Mara. "Evidence in favour of density wave theory through age gradients observed in star formation history maps and spatially resolved stellar clusters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512, no. 1 (2022): 366-377.

    Sahu, Nandini, Alister W. Graham, and Benjamin L. Davis. "The (Black Hole Mass)–(Spheroid Stellar Density) Relations: M BH–μ (and M BH–Σ) and M BH–ρ." The Astrophysical Journal 927, no. 1 (2022): 67.

    Sahu, Nandini, Alister Graham, and Benjamin Davis. "The Morphology-Dependent Black Hole - Host Galaxy Correlations: A Consequence of Physical Formation Processes." Acta Astrophysica Taurica 3 (January 01, 2022): 39-43. https://doi.org/10.31059/aat.vol3.iss1.pp39-43.

    Hon, Dexter S-H, Alister W Graham, Benjamin L Davis, and Alessandro Marconi. "Disc Cloaking: Establishing a Lower Limit to the Number Density of Local Compact Massive Spheroids/Bulges and the Potential Fate of Some High-Z Red Nuggets." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514, no. 3 (2022): 3410-51. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1171.

    Fusco, Michael S., Benjamin L. Davis, Julia Kennefick, Daniel Kennefick, and Marc S. Seigar. "Probing the Low-Mass End of the Black Hole Mass Function Via a Study of Faint Local Spiral Galaxies." Universe 8, no. 12 (2022): 649. https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/12/649.

    Graham, Alister W., Roberto Soria, Benjamin L. Davis, Mari Kolehmainen, Thomas Maccarone, James Miller-Jones, Christian Motch, and Douglas A. Swartz. "Central X-Ray Point Sources Found to Be Abundant in Low-Mass, Late-Type Galaxies Predicted to Contain an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole." The Astrophysical Journal 923 (December 01, 2021): 246. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac34f4.

    Graham, Alister W., Roberto Soria, Bogdan C. Ciambur, Benjamin L. Davis, and Douglas A. Swartz. "Potential Black Hole Seeding of the Spiral Galaxy Ngc 4424 Via an Infalling Star Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal 923 (December 01, 2021): 146. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac235b.

    Davis, Benjamin L., and Alister W. Graham. "Refining the Mass Estimate for the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate in Ngc 3319." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 38 (July 01, 2021): e030. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2021.23.

    Sahu, Nandini, Alister W. Graham, and Benjamin L. Davis. "Defining the (Black Hole)–Spheroid Connection with the Discovery of Morphology-Dependent Substructure in the M Bh–N Sph and M Bh–R E,Sph Diagrams: New Tests for Advanced Theories and Realistic Simulations." The Astrophysical Journal 903, no. 2 (November 01, 2020): 97. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abb675.

    Abdeen, Mohamed Shameer, Daniel Kennefick, Julia D. Kennefick, Ryan Miller, Douglas W. Shields, Erik B. Monson, and Benjamin L. Davis. 2020. “Determining the Co-Rotation Radii of Spiral Galaxies Using Spiral Arm Pitch Angle Measurements at Multiple Wavelengths.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496 (2): 1610–19. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1596.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Alister W. Graham, and Françoise Combes. 2019. “A Consistent Set of Empirical Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies: the (vmax, MDM)–(s0, MBH, f) Relations.” Astrophysical Journal 877 (1): 64. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1aa4.

    Graham, Alister W., Roberto Soria, and Benjamin L. Davis. 2019. “Expected Intermediate-mass Black Holes in the Virgo Cluster - II. Late-type Galaxies.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484 (1): 814–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3068.

    Miller, Ryan, Daniel Kennefick, Julia D. Kennefick, Mohamed Shameer Abdeen, Erik Monson, Rafael T. Eufrasio, Douglas W. Shields, and Benjamin L. Davis. 2019. “Investigating the Origins of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies through a Multiwavelength Study.” Astrophysical Journal 874 (2): 177. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0d26.

    Sahu, Nandini, Alister W. Graham, and Benjamin L. Davis. 2019a. “Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Early-Type Galaxies. I. MBH–M∗,sph and MBH–M∗,Gal.” Astrophysical Journal 876 (2): 155. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f32.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Alister W. Graham, and Ewan Cameron. 2018. “Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies. II. MBH–M*,Tot and MBH–M*,Disk.” Astrophysical Journal 869 (2): 113. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae820.
    --- 2019. “Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies. I. MBH–M*,Sph.” Astrophysical Journal 873 (1): 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf3b8.

    ———. 2019b. “Revealing Hidden Substructures in the MBH–σ Diagram, and Refining the Bend in the L–σ Relation.” Astrophysical Journal 887 (1): 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab50b7.

    ———. 2020. “Defining the (Black Hole Mass)–Spheroid Connection with the Discovery of Morphology-dependent Substructure in the MBH–nsph and MBH–Re,sph Diagrams: New Tests for Advanced Theories and Realistic Simulations,” Astrophysical Journal in press.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Alister W. Graham, and Marc S. Seigar. 2017. “Updating the (Supermassive Black Hole Mass)–(Spiral Arm Pitch Angle) Relation: A Strong Correlation for Galaxies with Pseudobulges.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 471 (2): 2187-2203. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1794.

    Koliopanos, Filippos, Bogdan C. Ciambur, Alister W. Graham, Natalie A. Webb, Mickael Coriat, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Benjamin L. Davis, Olivier Godet, Didier Barret, and Marc S. Seigar. 2017. “Searching for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Galaxies with Low-Luminosity AGN: a Multiple-method Approach.” Astronomy and Astrophysics 601: A20. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201630061.

    Mutlu-Pakdil, Burçin, Marc S. Seigar, and Benjamin L. Davis. 2016. “The Local Black Hole Mass Function Derived from the MBH–P and the MBH–n Relations.” Astrophysical Journal 830 (2): 117. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/830/2/117.

    Pour-Imani, Hamed, Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick, Benjamin L. Davis, Douglas W. Shields, and Mohamed Shameer Abdeen. 2016. “Strong Evidence for the Density-Wave Theory of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 827 (1): L2. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/827/1/l2.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Daniel Kennefick, Julia D. Kennefick, Kyle B. Westfall, Douglas W. Shields, Russell Flatman, Matthew T. Hartley, Joel C. Berrier, Thomas P. K. Martinsson, and Rob A. Swaters. 2015. “A Fundamental Plane of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 802 (1): L13. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/802/1/L13.

    Seigar, Marc S., Benjamin L. Davis, Joel C. Berrier, and Daniel Kennefick. 2014. “Constraining Dark Matter Halo Profiles and Galaxy Formation Models Using Spiral Arm Morphology. II. Dark and Stellar Mass Concentrations for 13 Nearby Face-on Galaxies.” Astrophysical Journal 795 (1): 90. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/90.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Joel C. Berrier, Lucas Johns, Douglas W. Shields, Matthew T. Hartley, Daniel Kennefick, Julia D. Kennefick, Marc S. Seigar, and Claud H. S. Lacy. 2014. “The Black Hole Mass Function Derived from Local Spiral Galaxies.” Astrophysical Journal 789 (2): 124. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/124.

    Berrier, Joel C., Benjamin L. Davis, Daniel Kennefick, Julia D. Kennefick, Marc S. Seigar, Robert Scott Barrows, Matthew Hartley, Douglas W. Shields, Misty C. Bentz, and Claud H. S. Lacy. 2013. “Further Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole Mass–Pitch Angle Relation.” Astrophysical Journal 769 (2): 132. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/769/2/132.

    Davis, Benjamin L., Joel C. Berrier, Douglas W. Shields, Julia D. Kennefick, Daniel Kennefick, Marc S. Seigar, Claud H. S. Lacy, and Ivânio Puerari. 2012. “Measurement of Galactic Logarithmic Spiral Arm Pitch Angle Using Two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform Decomposition.” Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 199 (2): 33. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/199/2/33.