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light. Heisler and her team thought this was due to a link between the infrared colour of the galaxy and the broad line region existing. This led to a model where
Seyfert II galaxies which were known to have hidden broad line regions galaxies being modelled as normal Seyfert galaxies with symmetry
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Jeanette Patricia Vader in 1991. The focus of her thesis was on the properties of galaxies with spectral energy distributions that peaked at sixty microns, referred to as "Sixty Micron Peakers".
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telescopes, with the belief that "Peakers" contained key information about the early stages of AGN. Using a combination of infrared imaging and spectroscopic data from observations she made at
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and was informed by her doctor she would not live more than two years and that she should abandon her PhD studies. However, she went on to live 8 more years and she completed her PhD at
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Charlene A Heisler, Patricia J Vader. (July 1995). "Galaxies with
Spectral Energy Distributions Peaking Near 60 micron.III. H(alpha) Imaging". Astronomical Journal.
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Charlene A Heisler, Patricia J Vader. (January 1994). "Galaxies with
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Charlene A Heisler, Michael M De
Robertis. (November 1999). "A Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of 60 Micron Peakers". Astronomical Journal.
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Charlene A Heisler; Stuart L Lumsden; Jeremy A Bailey. (February 1997). "Visibility of scattered broad-line emission in
Seyfert 2 galaxies".
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Charlene A Heisler, Michael M De
Robertis, D Nadeau. (May 1996). "Near-infrared surface photometry of `Sixty Micron Peaker' galaxies".
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