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P.N. gratefully acknowledges the invitation to Google’s Science Festival SciFoo in 2018, where she first hatched this idea, and thanks S. Sarma and B. Subirana at MIT for early discussions. She acknowledges Alphabet-X for technical support and computational resources for this project. P.N. and K.S.T. thank R. Ebert at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology for his help with accessing the NED database. K.S.T. thanks F. Wang at Google for his help with the Google Cloud Platform. S.K. acknowledges use of the ARCHER UK National Super-computing Service (http://www.archer.ac.uk) for running the LEGACY simulation. B.N. acknowledges support from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, managed and operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract no. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy. This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under contract no. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. S.S. acknowledges the Aspen Center for Physics where parts of this work were done, which is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-1607611.
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Natarajan, P., Tang, K.S., Khochfar, S. et al. Introducing QUOTAS as a new research platform for the data-driven discovery of supermassive black holes. Nat Astron 7, 879–881 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01478-x
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