{"id":1243,"date":"2023-09-14T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomia.bedigital.cl\/?post_type=researcher&#038;p=1243"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:14:58","slug":"mai-liao","status":"publish","type":"researcher","link":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/researcher\/mai-liao\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Liao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile-column is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border is-style-rounded profile-photo photo-pad\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6269\" style=\"border-radius:10px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/017A2694UDP-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mai Liao<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rubin-Chile Postdoctoral Fellow<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently an Rubin-Chile postdoctoral fellow at the IEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Projects<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Time domain:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically aims to search for highly variable mid-IR selected AGN, systematically identify AGN transients by using archival spectra, ongoing and upcoming spectroscopic surveys, and follow-up spectroscopic observations using observatories based in Chile, as well as available multi-band data and that upcoming from LSST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>ALMA high-resolution [C II] imaging for Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs):<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically investigates the cold AGN outflows traced by [C II] emission line, and dynamically measure central black hole masses for these extreme AGN (i.e., in the early Universe!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>First systematical statistic analysis of optical and X-ray prop\u0002erties on young radio AGN with two large samples, which highly complement for literature studies that mostly focus on the radio emission in this special AGN population (2020MNRAS.491\u202692L, 2020MNRAS.497..482L).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With a large radio quiet quasars (~37,000) sample, and without biased against radio faint quasars, the correlation between radio emission at 3 GHz and [O III] outflows remains solid after controlling the effects of SMBH mass, quasar luminosity, Eddington ratio and redshift, which confirms that outflows resulted from wide angle sub-relativistic quasar wind could make an important contribution to radio emission in radio quiet quasars (2024MNRAS.528.3696L).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report the first dynamical measurement of an SMBH mass at redshift &gt; 2, based on ALMA high spatial resolution observations of the [C II] emission line that resolve the black hole sphere of influence in the most luminous obscured quasar WISE J224607.6\u2013052634.9 (W2246\u20130526) at redshift 4.6 (2025arXiv250413409L).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/search\/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&amp;fq_database=database%3A%20astronomy&amp;q=author%3A(%22Liao.%2CMai%22)&amp;sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&amp;p_=0\"><strong>NASA ADS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9137-7019\"><strong>ORCID<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extracurricular activities<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiking, playing sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact me<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>mai.liao [at] mail.udp.cl<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postdoctoral fellow, working on identifying AGN transients using spectroscopic surveys and LSST multi-band data, and studying cold AGN outflows to measure black hole dynamical masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6269,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"researcher-category":[255],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/researcher"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7789,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/1243\/revisions\/7789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"researcher-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher-category?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}