David Ballantyne

Professor / Associate Chair for Academic Programs

Education

Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Cambridge 2002
M.Sc. in Astrophysics, University of Toronto 1999
B.Sc. in Honours Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria 1998

Research

high-energy astrophysics; accretion disks; galaxy and black hole evolution

My research concentrates on topics in high-energy astrophysics with an emphasis on interpreting existing data and making predictions for future observations. My main interests are: (i) the evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes and (ii) the physics of accretion disks around both black holes and neutron stars. My work often involves comparing computer based models with published data from X-ray, radio and/or infrared telescopes. All of these directions are guided by my underlying research philosophy of using any necessary tool or technique, unlimited by wavelength range or physical process, to make progress in understanding the relevant physics. Students working with me will be exposed to a wide range of astrophysical processes and theories, but will also learn to respect and be guided by observational constraints.

Papers

Papers Since Arriving at Georgia Tech

1. Vaia, B., Ursini, F., Matt, G., Ballantyne, D.R., Bianchi, S., De Rosa, A., Middei, R., Petrucci P.-O., Piconcelli, E. & Tortosa, A., 2024, The origin of the soft excess in the luminous quasar HE 1029-1401, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics.

2. Palit, B., Różańska, A., Petrucci, P.-O., Gronkiewicz, D., Barnier, S., Bianchi, S., Ballantyne, D.R., Gianolli, V.E., Middei, R., Belmont, R. & Ursini, F., 2024, X-ray view of Dissipative Warm Corona in AGN, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics.

3. Qutob, N., Emami, R., Su, K.-Y., Smith, R., Hernquist, L., Triani, D.P., Hummels, C., Fielding, D., Hopkins, P.F., Somerville, R.S., Ballantyne, D.R., Vogelsberger, M., Tremblay, G., Steiner, J.F., Finkbeiner, D., Narayan, R., Park, M., Grindlay, J., Natarajan, P., Hayward, C.C., Kereš, D., Ponnada, S.B., Belli, S., Davies, R., Maheson, G., Bugiani, L. & Li, Y., 2024, Observational Signatures of AGN Feedback in the Morphology and Ionization States of Milky Way-like Galaxies, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.

4. Klindt, L., Lansbury, G.B., Rosario, D.J., Alexander, D.M., Aird, J., Stern, D., Forster, K., Koss, M.J., Bauer, F.E., Ricci, C., Tomsick, J., Brandt, W.N., Connor, T., Boorman, P.G., Annuar, A., Ballantyne, D.R., Chen, C.- T., Comastri, A., Fornasini, F.M., Gandhi, P., Greenwell, C., Harrison, F., Heida, M., Kammoun, E.S., Lanz, L., Marchesi, S., Noiroit, G., Romero-Colmenero, E., Treister, E., Urry, C.M., Väisänen, P. & van Soelen, B., 2024, The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: the 80-month catalog and source properties of the high-energy emitting AGN and quasar population, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

5. Ballantyne, D.R., Sudhakar, V., Fairfax, D., Bianchi, S., Czerny, B., De Rosa, A., De Marco, B., Middei, R., Palit, B., Petrucci, P.-O., Różańska, A. & Ursini, F., 2024, Unveiling Energy Pathways in AGN Accretion Flows with the Warm Corona Model for the Soft Excess, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press.

6. Piotrowska, J.M., García, J.A., Walton, D.J., Beckmann, R.S., Stern, D., Ballantyne, D.R., Wilkins, D.R., Bianchi, S., Boorman, P.G., Buchner, J., Chen, C.-T., Coppi, P., Dauser, T., Fabian, A.C., Kammoun, E., Madsen, K., Mallick, L., Matt, G., Matzeu, G., Nardini, E., Pizzetti, A., Puccetti, S., Ricci, C., Tombesi, F., Torres-Albà, N. & Wong, K.-W., 2024, The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): constraining supermassive black hole growth with population spin measurements, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Vol. 11, id. 1324796

7. Li, K., Bogdanović, T., Ballantyne, D.R. & Bonetti, M., 2023, Massive Black Hole Binaries from the TNG50-3 Simulation: II. Using Dual AGNs to Predict the Rate of Black Hole Mergers, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 959, p. 3.

8. Speicher, J., Fragile, P.C. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2023, Impact of neutron star spin on Poynting-Robertson drag during a Type I X-ray burst, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 526, p. 1388

9. Ballantyne, D.R., 2023, Radiation Driven Warping of Accretion Discs Due to X-ray Bursts, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 518, p. 3357.

10. Güver, T., Funda Bostanci, Z., Boztepe, T., Göğüş, E., Bult, P., Kashyap, U., Chakraborty, M., Ballantyne, D.R., Ludlam, R.M., Malacaria, C., Jaisawal, G.K., Strohmayer, T.E., Guillot, S. & Ng, M., 2022, Burst-Disk Interaction in 4U 1636-536 as observed by NICER, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 935, p. 154.

11. Xiang, X., Ballantyne, D.R., Bianchi, S., De Rosa, A., Matt, G., Middei, R., Petrucci, P.-O., Różańska, A. & Ursini, F., 2022, reXcor: A Model of the X-ray Spectrum of Active Galactic Nuclei that Combines Ionized Reflection and a Warm Corona, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 515, p. 353.

12. Li, K., Bogdanović, T., Ballantyne, D.R. & Bonetti, M., 2022, Massive Black Hole Binaries from the TNG50-3 Simulation: I. Coalescence and LISA Detection Rates, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 933, p. 104.

13. Güver, T., Boztepe, T., Ballantyne, D.R., Funda Bostanci, Z., Bult, P., Jaisawal, G.K, Göğüş, E., Strohmayer, T.E., Altamirano, D., Guillot, S. & Chakrabarty, D., 2022, A NICER look at thermonuclear X-ray bursts from Aql X-1, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 510, p. 1577.

14. Speicher, J., Ballantyne, D.R. & Fragile, P.C., 2021, Evolution of accretion disc reflection spectra due to a Type I X-ray burst, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 509, p. 1736.

15. Bult, P., Altamirano, D., Arzoumanian, Z., Ballantyne, D.R., Chenevez, J., Fabian, A.C., Gendreau, K.C., Homan, J., Jaisawal, G.K., Malacaria, C., Miller, J.M., Parker, M.L. & Strohmayer, T.E., 2021, On the Impact of an Intermediate Duration X-ray Burst on the Accretion Environment in IGR J17062-6143, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 920, p. 59.

16. Li, K., Ballantyne, D.R., & Bogdanović, T., 2021, The Detectability of Kiloparsec Scale Dual AGNs: The Impact of Galactic Structure and Black Hole Orbital Properties, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 916, p. 110.

17. Lacy, M., Surace, J.A., Farrah, D., Nyland, K., Afonso, J., Brandt, W.N., Clements, D.L., Lagos, C.D.P., Maraston, C., Pforr, J., Sajina, A., Sako, M., Vaccari, M., Wilson, G., Ballantyne, D.R., Barkhouse, W.A., Brunner, R., Cane, R., Clarke, T.E., Cooper, M., Cooray, A., Covone, G., D’Andrea, C., Evrard, A.E., Ferguson, H.C., Frieman, J., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Gupta, R., Hatziminaoglou, E., Huang, J., Jagannathan, P., Jarvis, M.J., Jones, K.M., Kimball, A., Mei, S., Messias, H., Murphy, E.J., Newman, J.A., Michol, R., Norris, R.P., Oliver, S., Perez-Fournon, I., Peters, W.M., Pierre, M., Polisensky, E., Richards, G.T., Ridgway, S.E., Röttgering, H.J.A., Seymour, N., Shirley, R., Somerville, R., Smail, I., Strauss, M.A., Suntzeff, N., Thorman, P.A., van Kampen, E., Verma, A., Weschler, R., Wood-Vasey, W.M., 2021, A Spitzer survey of Deep Drilling Fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 501, p. 892.

18. Li, K., Bogdanović, T. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2020, The Pairing Probability of Massive Black Holes in Merger Galaxies in the Presence of Radiative Feedback, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 905, p. 123.
     
19. Baloković, M., Harrison, F.A., Madejski, G., Comastri, A., Ricci, C., Annuar, A., Ballantyne, D.R., Boorman, P., Brandt, W.N., Brightman, M., Gandhi, P., Kamraj, N., Koss, M.J., Marchesi, S., Marinucci, A., Masini, A., Matt, G., Stern, D. & Urry, C.M., 2020, NuSTAR Survey of Obscured Swift/BAT-selected Active Galactic Nuclei: II. Median High-energy Cutoff in Seyfert II Hard X-ray Spectra, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 905, p. 41.
     
20. Speicher, J., Ballantyne, D.R. & Malzac, J., 2020, Cooling of Accretion Disc Coronae by Type I X-ray Bursts, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 499, p. 4479.
     
21. Annuar, A., Alexander, D.M., Gandhi, P., Lansbury, G.B., Asmus, D., Baloković, M., Ballantyne, D.R., Bauer, F.E., Boorman, P.G., Brandt, W.N., Brightman, M., Chen, C.-T.J., Del Moro, A., Farrah, D., Harrison, F.A., Koss, M.J., Lanz, L., Marchesi, S., Masini, A., Nardini, E., Ricci, C., Stern, D. & Zappacosta, L., 2020, NuSTAR Observations of Four Nearby X-ray Faint AGN: Low Luminosity or Heavily Obscured?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 497, p. 229.
     
22. Ballantyne, D.R. & Xiang, X., 2020, Sustaining a Warm Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 496, p. 4255.
     
23. Li, K., Bogdanović, T. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2020, Pairing of Massive Black Holes in Merger Galaxies Driven by Dynamical Friction, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 896, p. 113.

24. Fragile, P.C., Ballantyne, D.R. & Blankenship, A., 2020, Interactions of Type I X-ray Bursts with Thin Accretion Disks, Nature Astronomy, Vol. 4, p. 541.

25. Ballantyne, D.R., 2020, Examining the Physical Conditions of a Warm Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 491, p. 3553.

26. Bult, P., Jaisawal, G., Güver, T., Strohmayer, T.E., Altamirano, D., Arzoumanian, Z., Ballantyne, D.R., Chakrabarty, D., Chenevez, J., Gendreau, K.C., Guillot, S. & Ludlam, R.M., 2019, A NICER thermonuclear burst from the millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 885, p. L1.

27. Jaisawal, G., Wilson-Hodge, C.A., Fabian, A.C., Naik, S., Chakrabarty, D., Kretschmar, P., Ballantyne, D.R., Ludlum, R.M., Chenevez, J., Altamirano, D., Arzoumanian, Z., Fürst, F., Gendreau, K.C., Guillot, S., Malacaria, C., Miller, J.M., Stevens, A.L. & Wolff, M.T., 2019, An evolving broad iron line from the first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 885, p. 19.

28. Avirett-Mackenzie, M.S. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2019, The evolving X-ray spectrum of active galactic nuclei: evidence for an increasing reflection fraction with redshift, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 486, p. 3488.

29. Gohil, R., Ballantyne, D.R. & Li, G., 2019, The stellar remnants of high redshift nuclear starburst discs: a potential origin for nuclear star clusters?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 485, p. 2935.

30. Porquet, D., Done, C., Reeves, J.N., Grosso, N., Marinucci, A., Matt, G., Lobban, A., Nardini, E., Braito, V., Marin, F., Kubota, A., Ricci, C., Koss, M., Stern, D., Ballantyne, D. & Farrah, D., 2019, A deep X-ray view of the bare AGN Ark 120. V. Spin determination from disc-Comptonisation efficiency method, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 623, p. A11.

31. García, J.A., Kara, E., Walton, D., Beuchert, T., Dauser, T., Gatuzz, E., Balokovic, M., Steiner, J.F., Tombesi, F., Connors, R.M.T., Kallman, T.R., Harrison, F.A., Fabian, A., Wilms, J., Stern, D., Lanz, L., Ricci, C. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2019, Physical Implications of Warm Comptonization and Relativistic Reflection for the Soft Excess in AGN: The case of Mrk 509 Observed with NuSTAR and Suzaku, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 871, p. 88.

32. Yan, W., Hickox, R.C., Hainline, K.N., Stern, D., Lansbury, G., Alexander, D.M., Hviding, R.E., Assef, R., J., Ballantyne, D.R., Dipompeo, M.A., Lanz, L., Carroll, C.M., Koss, M., Lamberti, I., Civano, F., Del Moro, A., Gandhi, P. & Myers, A.D., 2019, NuSTAR and Keck Observations of Heavily Obscured Quasars Selected by WISE, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 870, p. 33.

33. Lanz, L., Hickox, R.C., Balokovic, M., Shimizu, T., Ricci, C., Goulding, A.D., Ballantyne, D.R., Bauer, F.E., Chen, C.-T., J., Del Moro, D., Farrah, D., Koss, M.J., LaMassa, S., Masini, A. & Zappacosta, L., 2019, Investigating the Covering Fraction Distribution of Swift/BAT AGN with X-ray and IR Observations, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 870, p. 26.

34. in't Zand, J.J.M., Bozzo, E., Qu, J., Li, X.-D., Amati, L., Chen, Y., Donnarumma, I., Doroshenko, V., Drake, S. A., Hernanz, M., Jenke, P.A., Maccarone, T.J., Mahmoodifar, S., de Martino, D., De Rosa, A., Rossi, E.M., Rowlinson, A., Sala, G., Stratta, G., Tauris, T.M., Wilms, J., Wu, X., Zhou, P., Agudo, I., Altamirano, D., Atteia, J.-L., Andersson, N.A., Baglio, M.C., Ballantyne, D.R., Baykal, A., Behar, E., Belloni, T., Bhattacharyya, S., Bianchi, S., Bilous, A., Blay, P., Braga, J., Brandt, S., Brown, E.F., Bucciantini, N., Burderi, L., Cackett, E.M., Campana, R., Campana, S., Casella, P., Cavecchi, Y., Chambers, F., Chen, L., Chen, Y.P., Chenevez, J., Chernyakova, M., Jin, C., Ciolfi, R., Costantini, E., Cumming, A., D'Aì, A., Dai, Z.G., D'Ammando, F., De Pasquale, M., Degenaar, N., Del Santo, M., D'Elia, V., Di Salvo, T., Doyle, G., Falanga, M., Fan, X., Ferdman, R.D., Feroci, M., Fraschetti, F., Galloway, D.K., Gambino, A.F., Gandhi, P., Ge, M., Gendre, B., Gill, R., Götz, D., Gouiffès, C., Grandi, P., Granot, J., Güdel, M., Heger, A., Heinke, C.O., Homan, J., Iaria, R., Iwasawa, K., Izzo, L., Ji, L., Jonker, P.G., José, J., Kaastra, J.S., Kalemci, E., Kargaltsev, O., Kawai, N.,Keek, L., Komossa, S., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuiper, L., Kunneriath, D., Li, G., Liang, E.W., Linares, M., Longo, F., Lu, F., Lutovinov, A.A., Malyshev, D., Malzac, J., Manousakis, A., McHardy, I., Mehdipour, M., Men, Y., Méndez, M., Mignani, R.P., Mikusincova, R., Miller, M.C., Miniutti, G., Motch, C., Nättilä, J., Nardini, E., Neubert, T., O'Brien, P.T., Orlandini, M., Osborne, J.P., Pacciani, L., Paltani, S., Paolillo, M., Papadakis, I.E., Paul, B., Pellizzoni, A., Peretz, U., Perez Torres, M.A., Perinati, E., Prescod-Weinstein, C., Reig, P., Riggio A., Rodriguez, J., Rodrguez-Gil, P., Romano, P., Rozanska, A., Sakamoto, T., Salmi, T., Salvaterra, R., Sanna, A., Santangelo, A., Savolainen, T., Schanne, S., Schatz, H., Shao, L., Shearer, A., Shore, S.N., Stappers, B.W., Strohmayer, T.E., Suleimanov, V.F., Svoboda, J., Thielemann, F.-K., Tombesi, F., Torres, D.F., Torresi, E., Turriziani, S., Vacchi, A., Vercellone, S., Vink, J., Wang, J.-M., Weng, J., Watts, A.L., Weng, S., Weinberg, N.N., Wheatley, P.J., Wijnands, R., Woods, T.E., Woosley, S.E., Xiong, S., Xu, Y., Yan, Z., Younes, G., Yu, W., Yuan, F., Zampieri, L., Zane, S., Zdziarski, A., Zhang, S.-N., Zhang, S., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. & Zingale, M., 2019, Observatory Science with eXTP, Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron., Vol. 62, p. 29506

35. Fragile, P.C., Ballantyne, D.R., Maccarone, T.J. & Witry, J.W.L., 2018, Simulating the Collapse of a Thick Accretion Disk due to a Type I X-ray Burst from a Neutron Star, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 867, p. L28.

36. Buisson, D.J.K., Parker, M.L., Kara, E., Vasudevan, R.V., Lohfink, A.M., Pinto, C., Fabian, A.C., Ballantyne, D.R., Boggs, S.E., Christensen, F.E., Craig, W.W., Farrah, D., Hailey, C.J., Harrison, F.A., Ricci, C., Stern, D., Walton, D.J., Zhang, W.W., 2018, NuSTAR observations of Mrk 766: distinguishing reflection from absorption, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 480, p. 3689.

37. Ursini, F., Petrucci, P.-O., Matt, G., Bianchi, S., Cappi, M., Dadina, M., Grandi, P., Torresi, E., Ballantyne, D.R., De Marco, B., De Rosa, A., Giroletti, M., Malzac, J., Marinucci, A., Middei, R., Ponti, G. & Tortosa, A., 2018, Radio/X-ray monitoring of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 382. High-energy view with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 478, p. 2663.

38. Masini, A., Ciavno, F., Comastri, A., Fornasini, F., Ballantyne, D.R., Lansbury, G., Treister, E., Alexander, D.M., Boorman, P.G., Brandt, W.N., Farrah, D., Gandhi, P., Harrison, F.A., Hickox, R.C., Kocevski, D.D., Lanz, L., Marchesi, S., Puccetti, S., Ricci, C., Saez, C., Stern, D. & Zappacosta, L., 2018, The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Source Catalog and the Compton-Thick Fraction in the UDS Field, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 235, p. 17.

39. Singal, J., Haider, J., Ajello, M., Ballantyne, D. R., Bunn, E., Condon, J., Dowell, J., Fixsen, D., Fornengo, N., Harms, B., Holder, G., Jones, E., Kellermann, K., Kogut, A., Linden, T., Monsalve, R., Mertsch, P., Murphy, E., Orlando, E., Regis, M., Scott, D., Vernstrom, T. & Xu, L., 2018, The Radio Synchrotron Background: Conference Summary and Report, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 130, p. 036001.

40. Gohil, R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2018, The Shape of the Cosmic X-ray Background: Nuclear Starburst Discs and the Redshift Evolution of AGN Obscuration, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 475, p. 3543.

41. Zappacosta, L., Comastri, A., Civano, F., Puccetti, S., Fiore, F., Aird, J., Del Moro, A., Lansbury, G.B., Lanzuisi, G., Goulding, A., Mullaney, J.R., Stern, D., Ajello, M., Alexander, D.M., Ballantyne, D.R., Bauer, F.E., Brandt, W.N., Chen, C.-T.J., Farrah, D., Harrison, F.A., Gandhi, P., Lanz, L., Masini, A., Marchesi, S., Ricci, C. & Treister, E., 2018, The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: X-ray Spectroscopic Analysis of the Bright Hard-Band Sample, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 854, p. 33.

42. Porquet, D., Reeves, J.N., Matt, G., Marinucci, A., Nardini, E., Braito, V., Lobban, A., Ballantyne, D.R., Boggs, S.E., Christensen, F.E., Dauser, T., Farrah, D., Garcia, J., Hailey, C.J., Harrison, F., Stern, D., Tortosa, A., Ursini, F. & Zhang, W.W., 2018, A deep X-ray view of the bare AGN Ark 120. IV. XMM-Newton and NuSTAR spectra dominated by two temperature (warm, hot) Comptonization processes, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 609, p. A42.

43. Degenaar, N., Ballantyne, D.R., Belloni, T., Chakraborty, M., Chen, Y.-P., Ji, L., Kretschmar, P., Kuulkers, E., Li, J., Maccarone, T.J., Malzac, J., Zhang, S. & Zhang, S.-N., 2018, Accretion Disks and Coronae in the X-ray Flashlight, Space Science Reviews, Vol. 214, p. 15.

44. Sartori, L.F., Schawinski, K, Koss, M.J., Ricci, C., Treister, E., Stern, D., Lansbury, G., Maksym, W.P., Baloković, M., Gandhi, P., Keel, W.C. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2018, Joint NuSTAR and Chandra analysis of the obscured quasar in IC 2494 – Hanny's Voorwerp system, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 474, p. 2444.

45. Del Moro, A., Alexander, D.M., Aird, J.A., Bauer, F.E., Civano, F., Mullaney, J.R., Ballantyne, D.R., Brandt, W.N., Comastri, A., Gandhi, P., Harrison, F.A., Lansbury, G.B., Lanz, L., Luo, B., Marchesi, S., Puccetti, S., Ricci, C., Saez, C., Stern, D., Treister, E. & Zappacosta, L., 2017, The NuSTAR Extragalactic Survey: Average Broad-band X-ray Spectral Properties of the NuSTAR Detected AGN, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 849, p. 57.

46. Ballantyne, D.R., 2017, Ionised Accretion Discs in Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effects of a Lamppost with a Variable Height, The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, Vol. 472, p. L60.

47. Lansbury, G.B., Alexander, D.M., Aird, J., Gandhi, P., Stern, D., Koss, M., Ajello, M., Assef, R.J., Ballantyne, D.R., Baloković , M., Bauer, F.E., Brandt, W.N., Brightman, M., Chen, C.-T.J., Civano, F., Comastri, A., Del Moro, A., Fuentes, C., Harrison, F.A., Marchesi, S., Masini, A., Mullaney, J.R., Ricci, C., Saez, C., Tomsick, J.A., Treister, E., Walton, D.J. & Zappacosta, L., 2017, The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: Hunting for the Most Extreme Obscured AGN at > 10 keV, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 846, p. 20.

48. Brightman, M., Baloković , M., Ballantyne, D.R., Bauer, F.E., Boorman, P., Buchner, J., Brandt, W.N., Comastri, A., Del Moro, A., Farrah, D., Harrison, F.A., Koss, M., Lanz, L., Masini, A., Ricci, C., Stern, D., Vasudevan, R. & Walton, D.J., 2017, X-ray Bolometric Corrections for Compton-Thick Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 844, p. 10.

49. Lohfink, A.M., Fabian, A.C., Ballantyne, D.R., Boggs, S.E., Boorman, P., Christensen, F.E., Craig, W.W., Farrah, D., García, J., Hailey, C.J., Harrison, F.A., Ricci, C., Stern, D. & Zhang, W.W., 2017, The X-Ray Reflection Spectrum of the Radio-Loud Quasar 4C 74.26, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 841, p. 80.

50. Gohil, R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2017, Modeling the Vertical Structure of Nuclear Starburst Discs: A Possible Source of AGN Obscuration at z~1, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 468, p. 4944.

51. Annuar, A., Alexander, D.M., Gandhi, P., Lansbury, G.B., Asmus, D., Ballantyne, D.R., Bauer, F.E., Boggs, S.E., Boorman, P.G., Brandt, W.N., Brightman, M., Christensen, F.E., Craig, W.W., Farrah, D., Goulding, A.D., Hailey, C.J., Harrison, F.A., Koss, M.J., LaMassa, S.M., Murray, S.S., Ricci, C., Rosario, D.J., Stanley, F., Stern, D. & Zhang, W., 2017, A New Compton­-Thick AGN in Our Cosmic Backyard: Unveiling the Buried Nucleus in NGC 1448 with NuSTAR, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 836, p. 165.

52. Totosa, A., Marinucci, A., Matt, G., Bianchi, S., La Franca, F., Ballantyne, D.R., Boorman, P.G., Fabian, A.C., Farrah, D., Fuerst, F., Gandhi, P., Harrison, F.A., Koss, M.J., Ricci, C., Stern, D., Ursini, F. & Walton, D.J., 2017, Broadband X-ray spectral analysis of the Seyfert 1 galaxy GRS 1734-292, The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 466, p. 4193.

53. Keek, L., Iwakiri, W., Serino, M., Ballantyne, D.R., in ‘t Zand, J.J.M. & Strohmayer, T.E., 2017, X-ray Reflection and an Exceptionally Long Thermonuclear Helium Burst from IGR J17062-6143, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 836, p. 111.

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99. Brenneman, L., Madejski, G., Fuerst, F., Matt, G., Elvis, M., Harrison, F.A., Ballantyne, D., Boggs, S., Christensen, F., Craig, W., Fabian, A.C., Grefenstette, B., Hailey, C., Madsen, K., Marinucci, A., Rivers, E., Stern, D., Walton, D. & Zhang, W., 2014, Measuring the Coronal Properties of IC 4329A with NuSTAR, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 781, p. 83.
100. Grissom, R.L., Ballantyne, D.R. & Wise, J.H., 2014, On the Contribution of Active Galactic Nuclei to Reionization, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 561, p. A90.
101. Ballantyne, D.R., 2014, The average 0.5-200 keV spectrum of local active galactic nuclei and a new determination of the 2-10 keV luminosity function at z≈0, The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol., 437, p. 2845.
102. La Massa, S.M., Urry, C.M., Cappelluti, N., Civano, F., Ranalli, P., Glikman, E., Treister, E., Richards, G., Ballantyne, D., Stern, D., Cardamone, C., Schawinski, K., Böhringer, H., Chon, G., Murray, S.S., Green, P. & Nandra, K., 2013, Finding Rare AGN: XMM- Newton and Chandra Observations of SDSS Stripe 82, The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 436, p. 3581.
103. Alexander, D.M., Stern, D., Del Moro, A., Lansbury, G.B., Assef, R.J., Aird, J., Ajello, M., Ballantyne, D.R., Bauer, F.E., Boggs, S.E., Brandt, W.N., Christensen, F.E., Civano, F., Comastri, A., Craig, W.W., Elvis, M., Grefenstette, B.W., Hailey, C.J., Harrison, F.A., Hickox, R.C., Luo, B., Madsen, K.K., Mullaney, J.R., Perri, M., Puccetti, S., Saez, C., Treister, E., Urry, C.M., Zhang, W.W., Bridge, C.R., Eisenhardt, P.R.M., Gonzalez, A.H., Miller, S.H. & Tsai, C.W., 2013, The NuSTAR Extragalactic Survey: A First Sensitive Look at the High-Energy Cosmic X-ray Background Population, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 773, p. 125.
104. Harrison, F.A., Craig, W.W., Christensen, F.E., Hailey, C.J., Zhang, W.W., Boggs, S.E., Stern, D., Cook, W.R., Forster, K., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B.W., Kim, Y., Kitaguchi, T., Koglin, J.E., Madsen, K.K., Mao, P.H., Miyasaka, H., Mori, K., Perri, M., Pivovaroff, M.J., Puccetti, S., Rana, V.R., Westergaard, N.J., Willis, J., Zoglauer, A., An, H., Bachetti, M., Barriere, N.M., Bellm, E.C., Bhaloerao, V., Brejnholt, N.F., Fuerst, F., Liebe, C.C., Markwardt, C.B., Nynka, M., Vogel, J.K., Walton, D.J., Wik, D.R., Alexander, D.M., Cominsky, L.R., Hornschemeier, A.E., Hornstrup, A., Kaspi, V.M., Madejski, G.M., Matt, G., Molendi, S., Smith, D.M., Tomsick, J.A., Ajello, M., Ballantyne, D.R., Baloković, M., Barret, D., Bauer, F.E., Blandford, R.D., Brandt, N.W., Brenneman, L.W., Chiang, J., Chakrabarty, D., Chenevez, J., Comastri, A., Elvis, M., Fabian, A.C., Farrah, D., Fryer, C.L., Gotthelf, E.V., Grindlay, J.E., Helfand, D.J., Krivonos, R., Meier, D.L., Miller, J.M., Natalucci, L., Ogle, P., Ofek, E.P., Ptak, A., Reynolds, S.P., Rigby, J.R., Tagliaferri, G., Thosett, S.E., Treister, E. & Urry, C.M., 2013, The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 770, p. 103.
105. in t' Zand, J.J.M., Galloway, D.K., Marshall, H.L., Ballantyne, D.R., Jonker, P.G., Paerels, F.B.S., Palmer, D.M., Patruno, A. & Weinberg, N.N., 2013, A bright thermonuclear X-ray burst simultaneously observed with Chandra and RXTE, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 553, p. A83.
106. Ballantyne, D.R., Armour, J.N. & Indergaard, J.. 2013, The Star Formation Laws of Eddington-Limited Star-Forming Disks, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 765, p. 138.
107. Draper, A.R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2012, The Merger-Triggered Active Galactic Nucleus Contribution to the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy Population, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 753, p. L37.
108. Armour, J.N. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2012, CO Line Emission from Compact Nuclear Starburst Disks Around Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 752, p. 87.
109. Draper, A.R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2012, A Tale of Two Populations: The Contribution of Merger and Secular Processes to the Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 751, p. 72.
110. Ballantyne, D.R., Purvis, J.D., Strausbaugh, R.G. & Hickox, R.C., 2012, Ionized Reflection Spectra from Accretion Disks Illuminated by X-ray Pulsars, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 747, p. L35.
111. Pierce, C.M., Ballantyne, D.R. & Ivison, R.J., 2011, Evidence for Moderate Star Formation Rates in the Host Galaxies of Active Galactic Nuclei at z < 1, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 742, p. 45.
112. Draper, A.R., Northcott, S. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2011, Are Active Galactic Nuclei the Solution to the Excess Cosmic Radio Background at 1.4 GHz?, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 741, p. L39.
113. Draper, A.R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2011, The Young, the Old, and the Dusty: Stellar Populations of AGN Hosts, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 740, p. 57.
114. Ballantyne, D.R., Draper, A.R., Madsen, K.K., Rigby, J.R. & Treister, E., 2011, Lifting the Veil on Obscured Accretion: Active Galactic Nuclei Number Counts and Survey Strategies for Imaging Hard X-ray Missions, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 736, p. 56.
115. Ballantyne, D.R., McDuffie, J.R. & Rusin, J.S., 2011, A Correlation Between the Ionization State of the Inner Accretion Disk and the Eddington Ratio of Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 734, p. 112.
116. Draper, A.R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2011, Properties and Expected Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and their Hosts in the Far Infrared, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 729, p. 109.
117.  in t' Zand, J.J.M., Galloway, D.K. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2011, Achromatic latetime variability in thermonuclear X-ray bursts: An accretion disk disrupted by a novalike shell?, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 525, p. A111.
118.  Ballantyne, D.R., Schumann, M. & Ford, B., 2011, Modelling the time dependence of the TeV gamma-ray source at the Galactic Centre, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 410, p. 1521.
119.  Cackett, E.M., Miller, J.M., Ballantyne, D.R., Barret, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Boutelier, M., Miller, M.C., Strohmayer, T.E. & Wijnands, R., 2010, Relativistic Lines and Reflection From the Inner Accretion Disks Around Neutron Stars, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 720, p. 205.
120.  D'Ai, A., Di Salvo, T., Ballantyne, D., Iaria, R., Robba. N.R., Papitto, A., Riggio, A., Burderi, L., Piraino, S., Santangelo, A., Matt, G., Dovčiak, M. & Karas, V., 2010, A Self Consistent Approach to the Hard and Soft States of 4U 1705-44, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 516, p. A36.
121.  Ballantyne, D.R., 2010, The Integrated Relativistic Iron Line from Active Galactic Nuclei: Chasing the Spin Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 716, p. L27.
122.  Draper, A.R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2010, The Evolution and Eddington Ratio Distribution of Compton Thick Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 715, p. L99.
123.  Ballantyne, D.R., 2010, The Distribution and Cosmic Density of Relativistic Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 708, p. L1.
124. Draper, A.R. & Ballantyne, D.R., 2009, Balancing the Cosmic Energy Budget: The Cosmic X-ray Background, Blazars, and the Compton Thick Active Galactic Nucleus Fraction, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 707, p. 778.
125. Gliozzi, M., Papadakis, I.E., Eracleous, M., Sambruna, R.M., Ballantyne, D.R., Braito, V. & Reeves, J.N., 2009, Short­-term Variability and Power Spectral Density Analysis of the Radio-­Loud Active Galactic Nucleus 3C 390.3, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 703, p. 1021.
126. Sambruna, R.M., Reeves, J.N., Braito, V., Lewis, K.T., Eracleous, M., Gliozzi, M., Tavecchio, F., Ballantyne, D.R., Ogle, P.M., Barth, A.J. & Tueller, J., 2009, Structure of the Accretion Flow in Broad­-Line Radio Galaxies: The Case of 3C 390.3, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 700, p. 1473.
127. Ballantyne, D.R., 2009, The Contribution of Active Galactic Nuclei to the Microjansky Radio Population, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 698, p. 1033.