Amy Secunda

email: asecunda at flatironinstitute.org

Papers

FIRST AUTHOR

  1. A. Secunda, R.S. Somerville, Y.F. Jiang, J.E. Greene, L.J. Furtak, A. Zitrin, “Do Little Red Dots Vary.” 2025, submitted to ApJ, arXiv:2509.03571.
  2. A. Secunda, Y.F. Jiang, J. Greene. “Continuum Reverberation in Active Galactic Nuclei Disks Only With Sufficient X-ray Luminosity and Low Albedo.” 2025, ApJ, 984, 19.
  3. A. Secunda, Y.F. Jiang, J.E. Greene. “Simulating X-ray Reverberation in the UV-Emitting Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks with 3D Multi-Frequency Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations.”  2024, ApJL, 965, 29.
  4. A. Secunda, J.E. Greene, Y. F. Jiang, P. Z. Yao*, A. Zoghbi. “​​Negative Lags on the Viscous Timescale in Quasar Photometry and Prospects for Detecting More with LSST.” 2023, ApJ, 956, 2. 
  5. A. Secunda, P. Donnel, H. Ji, J. Goodman. “Magnetorotational Instability in a Swirling Partially Ionized Gas.” 2023, MNRAS , 526, 4093.
  6. A. Secunda, B. Hernandez*, J. Goodman, N. W. C. Leigh, B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, J. I. Adorno*. “Evolution of Retrograde Orbiters in an Active Galactic Nucleus Disk.” 2021, ApJL, 908, L27. 
  7. A. Secunda, J. M. Bellovary, M.-M. Mac Low, K. E. S. Ford, B. McKernan, N. W. C. Leigh, W. Lyra, S. Zsolt, J. I. Adorno*.  “Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes II. Spins and Incoming Objects.”  2020, ApJ, 903, 133.
  8. A. Secunda, R. Cen, T. Kimm, Y. Gotberg, S de Mink. “Delayed Photons from Binary Evolution Help Reionize the Universe.” 2020, ApJ, 901, 72.
  9. A. Secunda, J. M. Bellovary, M.-M. Mac Low, K.E.S. Ford, B. McKernan, N. W. C. Leigh, W. Lyra, S. Zsolt.  “Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes.” 2019, ApJ, 878, 85.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

  1. L.F. Furtak, A. Secunda, et al. “Investigating photometric and spectroscopic variability in the multiply-imaged Little Red Dot A2744-QSO1.” 2025, submitted to A&A, arXiv:2502.07875.
  2. S. Nasim, G. Fabj, F. Caban, A. Secunda, K. E. S. Ford, B. McKernan, J. Bellovary, N. W. C. Leigh, W. Lyra. “Aligning Retrograde Nuclear Cluster Orbits with an Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disc.” 2023, MNRAS, 522, 5393.
  3. P. Yao*, A. Secunda, Y. F. Jiang, J.E. Greene, A. Villar. “A Negative Long Lag from the Optical to the UV Continuum in Fairall 9.” 2023, ApJ, 953, 43.
  4. P. Amaro-Seoane, J. Andrews,…A. Secunda, et al. “Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.” 2023, Living Reviews in Relativity, 26, 2.
  5. E. Berzin*, A. Secunda, R. Cen, Y. Gotberg, A. Menegas*. “Determining the Presence of Population III and Stripped Stars in Galaxies at the Epoch of Reionization.” 2021, ApJ, 918, 5.
  6. R.E. Sanderson, A. Secunda, K.V. Johnston, J. Bochanski. “New Views of the Distant Stellar Halo.” 2017, MNRAS 470, 5014. 

*=students I have mentored