Publications by James Aird

Exploring the X-ray-radio connection for AGN via measurements of the multi-dimensional luminosity function DOI
Clara M. Pennock, James Aird and Cassandra L. Barlow-Hall, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544, 2, p. 1779-1798 (2025)
X-ray selected broad absorption line quasars in SDSS-V: BALs and non-BALs span the same range of X-ray properties DOI
Pranavi Hiremath, Amy L. Rankine, James Aird, W. N. Brandt, Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo, Scott F. Anderson, Catarina Aydar, Claudio Ricci, Donald P. Schneider, M. Vivek, Zsofi Igo et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542, 3, p. 2105-2127 (2025)
What drives the growth of black holes: A decade of progress DOI
D. M. Alexander, R. C. Hickox, J. Aird, F. Combes, T. Costa, M. Habouzit, C. M. Harrison, R. I. Leng, L. K. Morabito, S. L. Uckelman et al., New Astronomy Reviews, 101, p. 1-122 (2025)
JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z ≃ 2 DOI
M. L. Hamadouche, R. J. McLure, A. Carnall, D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, K. Whitaker, C. T. Donnan, R. Begley, T. M. Stanton, O. Almaini, J. Aird, F. Cullen, S. Cutler et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541, 1, p. 463-475 (2025)
Trinity VI: connection between galaxy star formation rates and supermassive black hole accretion rates from z = 0 − 10 DOI
Haowen Zhang, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, Joseph Silk, Xiaohui Fan, James Aird, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang and Philip F. Hopkins, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538, 1, p. 503-517 (2025)
The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm DOI
Clara M. Pennock, Jacco Th van Loon, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Chandreyee Maitra, Joana M. Oliveira, Jessica E. M. Craig, Valentin D. Ivanov, James Aird, Joy O. Anih, Nicholas J. G. Cross, Francesca Dresbach, Richard de Grijs et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537, 2, p. 1028-1055 (2025)
X-ray AGN in Boötes: The lack of growth of the most massive black holes since z = 4 DOI
Paloma Guetzoyan, James Aird, Antonis Georgakakis, Alison L. Coil, Cassandra Barlow-Hall, Ryan C. Hickox, Amy L. Rankine and Bryan A. Terrazas, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536, 1, p. 79-98 (2025)
The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy DOI
Mike Cruise, Matteo Guainazzi, James Aird, Francisco J. Carrera, Elisa Costantini, Lia Corrales, Thomas Dauser, Dominique Eckert, Fabio Gastaldello, Hironori Matsumoto et al., Nature Astronomy, 2024 (2024)
PICZL: Image-based photometric redshifts for AGN DOI
W. Roster, M. Salvato, S. Krippendorf, A. Saxena, R. Shirley, J. Buchner, J. Wolf, T. Dwelly, F. E. Bauer, J. Aird et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 692, p. 1-23 (2024)
Accretion properties of X-ray AGN: evidence for radiation-regulated obscuration with redshift-dependent host galaxy contribution DOI
Brivael Laloux, Antonis Georgakakis, David M. Alexander, Johannes Buchner, Carolina Andonie, Nischal Acharya, James Aird, Alba V. Alonso-Tetilla, Angela Bongiorno, Ryan C. Hickox et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 3, p. 3459-3479 (2024)
The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: the 80-month catalog and source properties of the high-energy emitting AGN and quasar population DOI
Claire L. Greenwell, Lizelke Klindt, George B. Lansbury, David J. Rosario, David M. Alexander, James Aird, Daniel Stern, Karl Forster, Michael J. Koss, Franz E. Bauer et al., Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 273, 2, p. 1-68 (2024)
Trinity IV: predictions for supermassive black holes at z ≳ 6 DOI
Haowen Zhang, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, Joseph Silk, Xiaohui Fan, James Aird, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang, Wei Leong Tee and Philip F. Hopkins, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 4, p. 4974-4989 (2024)
The intrinsic X-ray luminosity distribution of an optically-selected SDSS quasar population DOI
Amy L. Rankine, James Aird, Angel Ruiz and Antonis Georgakakis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 3, p. 9004-9022 (2024)
The incidence of AGN in galaxies with different stellar population ages DOI
Q. Ni, J. Aird, A. Merloni, K. L. Birchall, J. Buchner, M. Salvato and G. Yang, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 3, p. 4778-4800 (2023)
The relationship between the incidence of X-ray selected AGN in nearby galaxies and star-formation rate DOI
Keir L. Birchall, M. G. Watson, J. Aird and R. L. C. Starling, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 3, p. 4756-4770 (2023)
Trinity II: The luminosity-dependent bias of the supermassive black hole mass–galaxy mass relation for bright quasars at z = 6 DOI
Haowen Zhang, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, Joseph Silk, Xiaohui Fan, James Aird, Jinyi Yang and Philip F. Hopkins, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 523, 1, p. L69-L74 (2023)
Chasing supermassive black hole merging events with Athena and LISA DOI
L. Piro, M. Colpi, J. Aird, A. Mangiagli, A. C. Fabian, M. Guainazzi, S. Marsat, A. Sesana, P. McNamara, M. Bonetti et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 2, p. 2577-2592 (2023)
The Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS) - I. Survey definition and measurements of the X-ray number counts DOI
Jack N. Delaney, James Aird, Phil A. Evans, Cassandra Barlow-Hall, Julian P. Osborne and Michael G. Watson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 2, p. 1620-1632 (2023)
Constraints on the X-ray luminosity function of AGN at z = 5.7–6.4 with the Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey DOI
C L Barlow-Hall, J Delaney, J Aird, P A Evans, J P Osborne and M G Watson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 4, p. 6055-6064 (2023)
The demographics of obscured AGN from X-ray spectroscopy guided by multiwavelength information DOI
Brivael Laloux, Antonis Georgakakis, Carolina Andonie, David M. Alexander, Angel Ruiz, David J. Rosario, James Aird, Johannes Buchner, Francisco J. Carrera, Andrea Lapi et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518, 2, p. 2546-2566 (2023)
Trinity I: self-consistently modelling the dark matter halo–galaxy–supermassive black hole connection from z = 0–10 DOI
Haowen Zhang, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, Joseph Silk, Xiaohui Fan, Philip F. Hopkins, Jinyi Yang and James Aird, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518, 2, p. 2123-2163 (2023)
A super-linear ‘radio-AGN main sequence’ links mean radio-AGN power and galaxy stellar mass since z ∼ 3 DOI
I. Delvecchio, E. Daddi, M. T. Sargent, J. Aird, J. R. Mullaney, B. Magnelli, D. Elbaz, L. Bisigello, L. Ceraj, S. Jin et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 668, p. 1-27 (2022)
The MOSDEF Survey: A New View of a Remarkable z=1.89 Merger DOI
Jordan N. Runco, Alice E. Shapley, Mariska Kriek, Michele Cappellari, Michael W. Topping, Ryan L. Sanders, Vasily I. Kokorev, Sedona H. Price, Naveen A. Reddy, James Aird et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517, 3, p. 4405-4416 (2022)
The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS) X-ray emission around star-forming and quiescent galaxies at 0.05 < z < 0.3 DOI
Johan Comparat, Nhut Truong, Andrea Merloni, Annalisa Pillepich, Gabriele Ponti, Simon Driver, Sabine Bellstedt, Joe Liske, James Aird, Marcus Brüggen et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 666, p. 1-23 (2022)
AGN accretion and black hole growth across compact and extended galaxy evolution phases DOI
James Aird, Alison L. Coil and Dale D. Kocevski, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515, 4, p. 4860-4889 (2022)
Athena synergies in the multi-messenger and transient universe DOI
Luigi Piro, Markus Ahlers, Alexis Coleiro, Monica Colpi, Emma de Ona Wilhelmi, Matteo Guainazzi, Peter G. Jonker, Paul Mc Namara, David A. Nichols, James Aird et al., Experimental Astronomy, 54, 1, p. 23-117 (2022)
The Incidence of X-ray selected AGN in Nearby Galaxies DOI
Keir L. Birchall, M. G. Watson, J. Aird and R. L. C. Starling, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 3, p. 4556-4572 (2022)
Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations - II: the AGN population and predictions for upcoming X-ray missions DOI
Melanie Habouzit, Rachel S. Somerville, Yuan Li, Shy Genel, James Aird, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Romeel Davé, Iskren Y. Georgiev, Stuart McAlpine, Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Yohan Dubois et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509, 2, p. 3015-3042 (2022)
The XMM-SERVS survey: DOI
Qingling Ni, W. N. Brandt, Chien-ting Chen, Bin Luo, Kristina Nyland, Guang Yang, Fan Zou, James Aird, David M. Alexander, Franz Erik Bauer et al., Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 256, 1 (2021)
The connection between star formation and supermassive Black Hole activity in the local Universe DOI
O Torbaniuk, M Paolillo, F Carrera, S Cavuoti, C Vignali, G Longo and J Aird, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506, 2, p. 2619-2637 (2021)
The AGN-galaxy-halo connection: DOI
James Aird and Alison L. Coil, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 4, p. 5962-5980 (2021)
X-rays across the galaxy population - II. The distribution of AGN accretion rates as a function of stellar mass and redshift DOI
James Aird, Alison L. Coil and Antonis Georgakakis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, 1, p. 1225-1249 (2018)
X-rays across the galaxy population I DOI
J. Aird, A. L. Coil and A. Georgakakis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, 3, p. 3390-3415 (2017)
The MOSDEF survey DOI
Mojegan Azadi, Alison L. Coil, James Aird, Naveen Reddy, Alice Shapley, William R. Freeman, Mariska Kriek, Gene C. K. Leung, Bahram Mobasher, Sedona H. Price et al., Astrophysical Journal, 835, 1 (2017)
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys DOI
F. A. Harrison, J. Aird, F. Civano, G. Lansbury, J. R. Mullaney, D. R. Ballantyne, D. M. Alexander, D. Stern, M. Ajello, D. Barret et al., Astrophysical Journal, 831, 2 (2016)
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys DOI
J. Aird, D. M. Alexander, D. R. Ballantyne, F. Civano, A. Del-Moro, R. C. Hickox, G. B. Lansbury, J. R. Mullaney, F. E. Bauer, W. N. Brandt et al., Astrophysical Journal, 815, 1 (2015)
A remarkably flat relationship between the average star formation rate and AGN luminosity for distant X-ray AGN DOI
F. Stanley, C. M. Harrison, D. M. Alexander, A. M. Swinbank, J. A. Aird, A. Del Moro, R. C. Hickox and J. R. Mullaney, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, 1, p. 591-604 (2015)
The evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions of unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs out to z~5 DOI
J. Aird, Alison L. Coil, Antonis Georgakakis, Kirpal Nandra, Guillermo Barro and Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451, 2, p. 1892-1927 (2015)
The MOSDEF Survey DOI
Alison L. Coil, James Aird, Naveen Reddy, Alice E. Shapley, Mariska Kriek, Brian Siana, Bahram Mobasher, William R. Freeman, Sedona H. Price and Irene Shivaei, Astrophysical Journal, 801, 1 (2015)

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Publications by James Aird