Belinda Wilkes - Home Page

Belinda Wilkes - Home Page

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

    • Powerpoint:

  • The Chandra X-ray Observatory and its Science Apr 09
  • Supermassive Black Holes, Hets, AGNs etc. X-ray Seminars Lecture 12, Nov 07
  • Life Cycle of a Star May 06

    Committees

  • 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

    Research:

  • PI: Chandra Observations of High-redshift 3CR Sources
    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
    Compton Thick AGN Polletta et al. ApJ 642, 673
    SWIRE/Chandra X-ray Source Catalog Wilkes et al., ApJS, 185, 433

  • 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 in press);
    The Spectral Energy Distributions of Red 2MASS AGN ; Kuraszkiewicz et al. 2009 (ApJ in press);
    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

  • Chandra Multiwavelength Project, ChaMP
    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)
    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 , ApJ, 452, 230 (1995)

  • 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

  • AGN Chapter for re-printing of Astrophysical Quantities, ed. A. Cox, AIP, 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]