Fan Zou

Employment

• University of Michigan Research fellow
  2024 - Present

Education

• The Pennsylvania State University Ph.D.
  2019 - 2024
• University of Science and Technology of China B.S.
  2015 - 2019

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (41)

• Revisiting the Claim for a Direct-collapse Black Hole in UHZ1 at z = 10.05
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea0cc
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• Chandra Lensing-cluster Ultradeep Extragalactic Survey (CLUES) I: A 2 Ms Point-Source Catalog of the Abell 2744 Field
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.17673
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• JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy of the Quiescent Black Hole X-ray Binary XTE J1118+480: Constraints on Jet and Circumbinary Dust Contributions to the Mid-infrared Emission
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.36318
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• PRISMS. GHZ1. A standard tale of galaxy evolution with atypical ionizing conditions at $z=9.878$
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.14574
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• VAR-PZnn: A machine-learning framework for AGN photometric redshifts using color and variability-based features
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2607.16434
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• A Rare Eddington-limited, Heavily Obscured Low-mass Active Galactic Nucleus Likely Triggered by a Galaxy Merger
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6779
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• The Supermassive Black Hole in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy M81: A Robust Mass from JWST/NIRSpec Stellar Dynamics
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae64f0
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• AGILE: An end-to-end -LSST simulation of active galactic nuclei, galaxies, and stars Rubin. I. Software description and first data release
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202558627
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• VAR-PZ: Constraining the photometric redshifts of quasars using variability
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557223
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• Measuring the Central Dark Mass in NGC 4258 with JWST/NIRSpec Stellar Kinematics
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae32f2
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• Extending the frontier of spatially resolved supermassive black hole mass measurements to at 1 ≲ z ≲ 2: simulations with ELT/MICADO high-resolution mass models and HARMONI integral-field stellar kinematics
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag238
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• Scalable and Robust Multiband Modeling of AGN Light Curves in Rubin-LSST
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae28d3
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• A tidal disruption event from an intermediate-mass black hole revealed by comprehensive multi-wavelength observations
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68670-3
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• The Drivers of the Decline in Supermassive Black Hole Growth at z < 2
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae173d
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• Central Massive Black Holes Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-mass Galaxies
  Fan Zou, Elena Gallo, Anil C. Seth +13 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae06a1
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• Gone with the Wind: JWST-MIRI Unveils a Strong Outflow from the Quiescent Stellar-mass Black Hole A0620-00
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf6b9
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• The faintest, extremely variable X-ray tidal disruption event from a supermassive black hole binary?
  The Innovation 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2025.101169
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• The X-Ray Link between High Eddington Ratio Dust-obscured Galaxies (DOGs) and Hot DOGs
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf55c
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• The Nature of an Unidentified X-Ray Source in the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Catalog
  Research Notes of the AAS 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/adf431
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• Investigating the Star Formation Characteristics of Radio Active Galactic Nuclei
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9278
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