Belinda Wilkes - Home Page

Belinda Wilkes - Home Page

  • Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Director, Chandra X-ray Center

    • Sample Public Powerpoint Presentations:

  • Black Hole Chaos May 13
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory: NASA's X-ray Eye on the Universe Apr 2013
  • The Chandra X-ray Observatory and its Science Apr 09
  • Supermassive Black Holes, Jets, AGNs etc. MIT X-ray Seminars Lecture 12, Nov 07
  • Life Cycle of a Star May 06

    A Selection of Recent Committee Service

  • NRC: Review of NASA SMD Strategic Plan, 2013
  • AAS HEAD Executive Committee, 2010 - 2013
  • Astrophysics Subcommittee (APS) of the NASA Advisory Council, 2006 - 2009
  • Michelson Science Center Oversight Committee (MSCOC), 2006
  • Spitzer Science Users' Panel (SUP), 1998 - 2004
  • NVO Science Steering Committee, 2004 - 2007
  • NOAO Program Review Panel, 2004 - 2007

    A Selection of Research Papers:

  • All Refereed Papers (as of 30 Dec 2013)
    PDF file of refereed papers from ADS

  • All non-refereed Papers (as of 30 Dec 2013)
    PDF file of non-refereed papers from ADS

  • PI: Chandra Observations of High-redshift 3CR Sources
    Revealing the Heavily Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus Population of High-redshift 3CRR Sources with Chandra X-Ray Observations Wilkes et al. 2013, ApJ, 773, 15
    Extreme Host Galaxy Growth in Powerful Early-epoch Radio Galaxies. Barthel et al. 2012, ApJ, 757, 26
    Chandra X-Ray Observations of the Redshift 1.53 Radio-loud Quasar 3C 270.1 Wilkes et al. 2012, ApJ, 745, 84
    Near- and Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of High-redshift 3CRR Sources Leipski et al. 2010, ApJ, 717, 766
    Near- and Mid-Infrared Photometry of High-Redshift 3CR Sources Haas et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 122
    Clustering of red galaxies around the z=1.53 quasar 3C270.1 Haas et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 724

  • PI: Chandra/SWIRE Multiwavelength Survey
    SWIRE/Chandra X-ray Source Catalog Wilkes et al., ApJS, 185, 433
    Compton Thick AGN Polletta et al. 2006, ApJ 642, 673

  • PI: X-ray observations of 2MASS Red AGN
    PCA of the spectral energy distribution and emission line properties of red 2MASS AGN Kuraszkiewicz et al. 2009 ApJ, 692, 1180
    The Spectral Energy Distributions of Red 2MASS AGN Kuraszkiewicz et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 1143
    The X-ray properties of 2MASS Red Active Galactic Nuclei Wilkes et al., ApJL, 564, 65, 2002
    XMM-Newton Observations of Red AGNs Wilkes et al 2005, ApJ, 634, 183
    X-ray absorption and re-emission from an ionized outflow in the Type 1 quasi-stellar object 2MASS 234449+1221 observed by XMM-Newton Pounds et al 2005, MNRAS Comparison of high- and low-state X-ray spectra in the type 1.5 quasi-stellar object 2MASS 0918+2117 Pounds & Wilkes, 2007, MNRAS, 380, 1341 XMM-Newton Observations of the Red Type 1.8 Quasar 2M1049+5837: Reflection from Cold and Warm (Ionized) Matter Wilkes, Pounds & Schmidt, 2008, ApJ, 680, 110-118

  • Chandra Multiwavelength Project, ChaMP
    Chandra Multiwavelength Project X-Ray Point Source Catalog Kim, M. et al. 2007, ApJS, 169, 401
    Chandra Multiwavelength Project X-Ray Point Source Number Counts and the Cosmic X-Ray Background Kim, M. et al. 2007, ApJ, 659, 29
    Hard X-Ray-emitting Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project Silverman, J.D., et al, 2005, ApJ, 618, 123
    The Chandra Multiwavelength Project: Optical Follow-up of Serendipitous Chandra Sources Green, P. et al., 2004, ApJS, 150, 43
    Chandra Multiwavelength Project. I. First X-Ray Source Catalog Kim, D-W., 2004, ApJS, 150, 19
    The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project (ChaMP) Wilkes et al., in the Proceedings of the conference "New Era of Wide Field Astronomy (NEWFA)" Preston, UK, Aug 2000, p47
    The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project (ChaMP) Wilkes and Green

  • Cambridge-Cambridge ROSAT Sky Survey
    Paper I , MNRAS, 272, 462 (1995)
    Paper II, MNRAS, 276, 315 (1995)
    The Cambridge-Cambridge ROSAT Serendipity Survey - V: Catalogue and Optical Identifications , MNRAS 285, 511(1997) (Table 2)

  • Emission lines in quasars and their relation to the continuum
    Optical Detection of the Hidden Nuclear Engine in NGC 4258 , ApJL 455, L13-16 (1995)
    Emission Lines and the Spectral Energy Distributions of Quasars , 1997 in Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques, ed. B.M.Peterson, F.-Z. Cheng and A.S.Wilson (San Pranciscio: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), p126
    Studies of broad emission line profiles in QSOs. II - Properties of a large, predominantly radio selected sample Wilkes, B.J., MNRAS, 218, 331
    Studies of broad emission line profiles in QSO. I - Observed, high-resolution profiles Wilkes, B.J., MNRAS, 207, 73
    The Lyman-alpha emission-line profiles in high-redshift QSOs Wilkes and Carswell, MNRAS, 201, 645, 1982

  • The Far-Infrared Continuum of Quasars
    The Far-infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of Quasars Wilkes, B.J., invited review in ``The Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Spectral Energy Distributions of Active and Starburst Galaxies", eds. I. Van Bemmel, Peter Barthel, Belinda Wilkes, New Astronomy Reviews, 45, 641 (2001)

  • Spectral Energy Distributions of Quasars (Team QED)
    Atlas of quasar energy distributions Elvis, M. et al., 1994, ApJS, 95, 1
    The Spectral Energy Distributions of Active Galactic Nuclei, invited review at the conference "Quasars as Standard Candles for Cosmology", La Serena, Chile, May 1998, ed. G. Ferland, ASP Conference Series, p15

  • PI: ISO Key Project "Exploring the Full Range of Quasar/AGN Properties"
    ISO Observations of Quasars and Quasar Hosts , Invited presentation in the proceedings of the ESA/IAC Conference ``Quasar Hosts", Sept 1996 [Springer-Verlag]

  • X-ray/UV warm absorbers in quasars
    Testing X-ray/UV Warm Absorber Models with NGC 5548 , Mathur et al., 1995, ApJ, 452, 230

  • X-ray Studies of Quasars
    Quasar energy distributions. I - Soft X-ray spectra of quasars Wilkes and Elvis, ApJ 323, 243, 1987
    Einstein Database of IPC X-ray Observations of Quasars and AGN , ApJS 92, 53 (1994) and ApJ CDROM Vol 2. Note: PS file incomplete.
    The Soft X-ray Properties of a Complete Sample of Optically Selected Quasars II. Final Results , ApJ,477,93 (1997)

    Book Contributions

  • Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, ed. A. Cox, AIP 2000, p585
  • Active Galaxies: Unified Model, Wilkes and Peterson for the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, [IOP Publishing and Macmillan]
  • Active Galaxies: Observations, Wilkes and Peterson for the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, [IOP Publishing and Macmillan]

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