Senior Astrophysicist
Assistant Director,
Chandra X-ray Center:
Powerpoint:
Life Cycle of a Star May 06
Supermassive Black Holes, Hets, AGNs etc. X-ray Seminars Lecture 12, Nov 07
Committees
Astrophysics Subcommittee (APS) of the NASA Advisory Council, 2006 -
Michelson Science Center Oversight Committee (MSCOC), 2006 -
Spitzer Science Users' Panel (SUP), 1998 - 2004
STScI Visiting Committee, 2004 -
NVO Science Steering Committee, 2004 -
NOAO Program Review Panel, 2004 -
Research:
PI: Chandra/SWIRE Multiwavelength Survey, Papers: Compton Thick AGN
Co-PI: Chandra Multiwavelength Project CHAMP
PI: X-ray observations of 2MASS Red AGN, Papers:
The X-ray properties of 2MASS Red Active Galactic Nuclei Wilkes et al.,
ApJL, 2002;
XMM-Newton Observations of Red AGNs Wilkes et al 2005, ApJ;
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
Spectral Energy Distributions of Quasars (Team QED)
PI: ISO Key Project "Exploring the Full Range of Quasar/AGN Properties"
X-ray/UV warm absorbers in quasars
Cambridge-Cambridge ROSAT Sky Survey: Paper I , MNRAS, 272, 462 (1995);
Paper II, MNRAS, 276, 315 (1995)
Emission lines in quasars and their relation to the continuum.
The Far-Infrared Continuum of Quasars
A selection of papers:
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, in press
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,
in press
Active Galactic Nuclei, Wilkes and Peterson
for the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, [IOP Publishing and Macmillan],
in press
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, in press.
AGN Chapter for re-printing of Astrophysical Quantities, ed. A. Cox, AIP,
p585
Einstein Database of IPC X-ray Observations of Quasars and AGN ,
ApJS 92, 53 (1994) and ApJ CDROM Vol 2. Note: PS file incomplete.
Testing X-ray/UV Warm Absorber Models
with NGC 5548 , ApJ, 452, 230 (1995)
Optical Detection of the Hidden Nuclear Engine
in NGC 4258 , ApJL 455, L13-16 (1995)
The Cambridge-Cambridge
ROSAT Serendipity Survey - V: Catalogue and Optical Identifications
, MNRAS 285, 511(1997) (Table 2)
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
ISO Observations of Quasars and Quasar Hosts ,
Invited presentation, to appear in the proceedings of
the ESA/IAC Conference ``Quasar Hosts", Sept 1996 [Springer-Verlag]
The Soft X-ray
Properties of a Complete Sample of Optically Selected Quasars II. Final Results ,
ApJ,477,93 (1997)