IPM Positions

PostDoctoral Associate, School of Astronomy (2016 - 2018 )

non IPM Affiliations

Visiting researcher, Institut d Astrophysique de Paris (IAP)

Research Interests

Observational cosmology - Quasar absorption line systems - Galaxy evolution.

Research Activities

Strong damped Ly-alpha absorption (DLA) systems located at the same redshift as their background quasars, can act as a natural coronagraph and block the strong Ly-alpha emission from the quasar broad emission line region. This would then allow us to detect Ly-alpha emission of the quasar host galaxy as a narrow Ly-alpha emission at the bottom of the DLA trough. It is then possible to study the feeding and feedback mechanisms of the AGN by tracing the Ly-alpha emission from the innermost region of the quasar to the outermost region of its halo.

Present Research Project at IPM

Using coronagraphic DLAs to reveal quasar host galaxies

Related Papers

1.	B. Greig, S. E. I. Bosman, F. B. Davies, D. Durovcikova, H. Fathivavsari, B. Liu, Y. Ting, R. Meyer, Z. Sun, V. DOdorico, S. Gallerani and A. Mesinger Blind QSO reconstruction challenge: Exploring methods to reconstruct the Ly\alpha emission line of QSOs Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024), 30  [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2024/48

2.	H. Fathivavsari Constraining the Metallicities of Damped Ly[Math Processing Error] Systems Using Extinction Curves Astrophysical Journal 908 (2021),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2020/36

3.	H. Fathivavsari Using Machine Learning to Find Ghostly Damped LyÃ?± Systems in SDSS DR14 Astrophysical Journal 901 (2020),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2020/21

4.	H. Fathivavsari Deep Learning Prediction of Quasars Broad Lyα Emission Line ApJ 898 (2020),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2020/17

5.	H. Fathivavsari Ghostly Damped Lyα Systems: Tracers of Gas Flows in the Close Vicinity of Quasars ? ApJ 888 (2020),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2019/43

6.	P. Noterdaeme, S. Balashev, J.-K. Krogager, R. Srianand, H. Fathivavsari, P. Petitjean and C. Ledoux Proximate Molecular Quasar Absorbers: Excess of damped H2 systems at zabs zQSO in SDSS DR14 Astronomy & Astrophysics 627 (2019),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2019/48

7.	S. Zou, P. Petitjean, P. Noterdaeme, C. Ledoux, J-K. Krogager, H. Fathivavsari, R. Srianand and S. LÃ?³pez Near Infrared spectroscopic observations of high redshift C~{\sc i} absorbers Astronomy & Astrophysics 616 (2018),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2018/41

8.	N. Jamialahmadi, Th. Ratzka, O. Panic, H. Fathivavsari, R. Van Boekel, S. Flement, Th. Hening, W. Jaffe and G. Mulders Constraining the gap size in the disk around HD 100546 in the mid-infrared Astrophysical Journal 865 (2018),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2018/09

9.	H. Fathivavsari, P. Petitjean, N. Jamialahmadi, H. G Khosroshahi , H. Rahmani, H. Finley, P. Noterdaeme, I. Pâris and R. Srianand Eclipsing damped Lyα systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 MNRAS (2018),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2018/01

10.	H. Fathivavsari, P. Petitjean, S. Zou, P. Noterdaeme, C. Ledoux, T. KrÃ?¼hler and R. Srianand A ghostly damped Ly α system revealed by metal absorption lines MNRAS 466 (2017),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2017/32

11.	N. Jamialahmadi, B. Lopez, Ph. Berio, A. Matter, S. Flament, H. Fathivavsari, T. Ratzka, M. L. Sitko, A. Spang and R. W. Russell On the inner disc structure of MWC480: evidence for asymmetries? MNRAS 473 (2017),   [abstract] Code: IPM/A-2017/31