Marianne Vestergaard

Marianne Vestergaard

Professor


  1. 2011
  2. Published

    Black-hole masses of distant quasars

    Vestergaard, Marianne, 2011, Black Holes. Cambridge University Press, p. 150-172 23 p. ( Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series, Vol. 21).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    A New Cosmological Distance Measure Using Active Galactic Nuclei

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Denney, K. D., Vestergaard, Marianne & Davis, T. M., 20 Jan 2011, In: Astrophysical Journal. 740, 2, p. L49

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. 2010
  5. Published

    Reverberation Mapping Results from MDM Observatory: Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies

    Denney, K. D., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Bentz, M. C., Gaskell, C. M., Minezaki, T., Onken, C. A., Sergeev, S. G. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 May 2010, In: International Astronomical Union. Proceedings of Symposia. 267, p. 201-201

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Reverberation mapping measurements of black hole masses in six local seyfert galaxies

    Denney...[et al.], K. D., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Adair, A. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Sep 2010, In: Astrophysical Journal. 721, 1, p. 715-737 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Dust-free quasars in the early Universe

    Jiang...[et al.], L., Fan, X., Brandt, W., Carilli, C. L. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 18 Mar 2010, In: Nature. 464, 7287, p. 380-383 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function

    Kelly, B. C., Vestergaard, Marianne, Fan, X., Hopkins, P., Hernquist, L. & Siemiginowska, A., 20 Aug 2010, In: Astrophysical Journal. 719, 2, p. 1315-1334 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    The Distribution and Evolution of Black Hole Mass in Broad Line Quasars

    Kelly, B. C., Vestergaard, Marianne, Xiaohui, F., Hernquist, L., Hopkins, P. & Siemiginowska, A., 1 May 2010, In: International Astronomical Union. Proceedings of Symposia. 267, p. 263-263

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Observational Constraints on Quasar Black Hole Mass Distributions, Eddington Ratio Distributions, and Lifetimes

    Kelly, B. C., Vestergaard, Marianne, Fan, X., Hopkins, P., Hernquist, L. & Siemiginowska, A., 1 Jan 2010, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 215, p. 581

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  11. Published

    The relative growth of optical and radio quasars in SDSS

    Shankar, F., Sivakoff, G. R., Vestergaard, Marianne & Dai, X., 21 Jan 2010, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 401, 3, p. 1869-1881 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. 2009
  13. Published

    The Black Hole Mass-Bulge Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei From Reverberation Mapping and Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

    Bentz, M. C., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Apr 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 694, 2, p. L166

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements. II. The Full Sample of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs

    Bentz, M. C., Peterson, B. M., Netzer, H., Pogge, R. W. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 12 Dec 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal. 697, 1, 160.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements. II. The Full Sample of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs

    Bentz, M. C., Peterson, B. M., Netzer, H., Pogge, R. W. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 May 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal. 697, 1, p. 160-181

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Determining Quasar Black Hole Mass Functions from their Broad Emission Lines: Application to the Bright Quasar Survey

    Brandon, K. C., Vestergaard, Marianne & Xiaohul, F., 24 Feb 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal. 692, 2, p. 1388

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    A Revised Broad-line Region Radius and Black Hole Mass for the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 NGC 4051

    Denney, K. D., Watson, L. C., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Atlee, D. W., Bentz, M. C., Bird, J. C., Brokofsky, D. J., Comins, M. L., Dietrich, M., Doroshenko, V. T., Eastman, J. D., Efimov, Y. S., Gaskell, C. M., Hedrick, C. H., Klimanov, S. A., Klimek, E. S., Kruse, A. K., Lamb, J. B., Leighly, K. & 13 others, Minezaki, T., Nazarov, S. V., Petersen, E. A., Peterson, P., Poindexter, S., Schlesinger, Y., Sakata, K. J., Sergeev, S. G., Tobin, J. J., Unterborn, C., Vestergaard, Marianne, Watkins, A. E. & Yoshii, Y., 1 Sep 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal. 702, 2, p. 1353-1366

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Diverse kinematic signatures from reverberation mapping of the broad-line region in AGNs

    Denney, K. D., Perterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Adair, A. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 704, 2, p. L80-L84 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Reverberation Mapping Results from MDM Observatory

    Denney, K. D., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Bentz, M. C., Gaskell, C. M., Minezaki, T., Onken, C. A., Sergeev, S. G. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 13 Oct 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    High-redshift SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines

    Diamond-Stanic, A. M., Fan, X., Brandt, W. N., Shemmer, O., Strauss, M. A., Anderson, S. F., Carilli, C. L., Gibson, R. R., Jiang, L., Kim, J. S., Richards, G. T., Schmidt, G. D., Schneider, D. P., Shen, Y., Smith, P. S., Vestergaard, Marianne & Young, J. E., 1 Jul 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal. 699, 1, p. 782-799

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Mass Functions of the Active Black Holes in Distant Quasars from the Large Bright Quasar Survey, the Bright Quasar Survey, and the Color-Selected Sample of the SDSS Fall Equatorial Stripe

    Vestergaard, Marianne & Osmer, P. S., 21 Apr 2009, In: Astrophysical Journal. 699, 1, 800.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Quasar mass functions across cosmic time: Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies

    Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Aug 2009, In: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 5, S267, p. 239-247 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. 2008
  24. Published

    Systematic Uncertainties in Black Hole Masses Determined from Single Epoch Spectra

    Denney, K. D., Peterson, B. M., Dietrich, M., Vestergaard, Marianne & Bentz, M. C., 20 Oct 2008, In: Astrophysical Journal. 692, 1, 246.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    A Sample of Quasars with Strong Nitrogen Emission Lines from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jiang, L., Fan, X. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 28 Feb 2008, In: Astrophysical Journal. 679, 2, 962.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. A flexible method of estimating luminosity functions

    Kelly, B. C., Fan, X. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Aug 2008, In: Astrophysical Journal. 682, 2, p. 874-895 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. Observational constraints on the dependence of radio-quiet quasar X-ray emission on black hole mass and accretion rate

    Kelly, B. C., Bechtold, J., Trump, J. R., Vestergaard, Marianne & Siemiginowska, M., 1 Jun 2008, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 176, 2, p. 355-373 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. 2007
  29. Published

    NGC 5548 in a Low-Luminosity State: Implications for the Broad-Line Region

    Bentz, M. C., Denney, K. D., Cackett, E. M., Dietrich, M., Fogel, J. K. J., Ghosh, H., Horne, K. D., Kuehn, C., Minezaki, T., Onken, C. A., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Pronik, V. I., Richstone, D. O., Sergeev, S. G., Vestergaard, Marianne, Walker, M. G. & Yoshii, Y., 23 Feb 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal. 662, 1, 205.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Fourteen Low-Redshift Quasars

    Ganguly, R., Brotherton, M. S., Arav, N., Heap, S. R., Wisotzki, L., Aldcroft, T. L., Alloin, D., Behar, E., Canalizo, G., Crenshaw, D. M., Kool, M. D., Chambers, K., Cecil, G., Chatzichristou, E., Everett, J., Gabel, J., Gaskell, C. M., Galliano, E., Green, R. F., Hall, P. B. & 18 others, Hines, D. C., Junkkarinen, V. T., Kaastra, J. S., Kaiser, M. E., Kazanas, D., Konigl, A., Korista, K. T., Kriss, G. A., Laor, A., Leighly, K. M., Mathur, S., Ogle, P., Proga, D., Sabra, B., Sivron, R., Snedden, S., Telfer, R. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 8 Jan 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal. 133, 2, 479.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Outflows and the physical properties of quasars

    Ganguly, R., Brotherton, M. S., Cales, S., Scoggins, B., Shang, Z. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 10 Aug 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal. 665, 2 I, p. 990-1003 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Gemini Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Luminous z~6 Quasars

    Jiang, L., Fan, X., Vestergaard, Marianne, Kurk, J. D., Walter, F., Kelly, B. C. & Strauss, M. A., 11 Jul 2007, In: Astronomical Journal. 134, 3, 1150.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. Observational Insights Into the Dependence of Quasar Accretion Disk Structure on Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate

    Kelly, B. C., Bechtold, J., Trump, J. R., Vestergaard, Marianne & Siemiginowska, A., 1 Dec 2007, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 211, p. 947-

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. The black hole mass of NGC 4151: Comparison of reverberation mapping and stellar dynamical measurements

    Onken, C. A., Valluri, M., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Bentz, M. C., Ferrarese, L., Vestergaard, Marianne, Crenshaw, D. M., Sergeev, S. G., McHardy, I. M., Merritt, D., Bower, G. A., Heckman, T. M. & Wandel, A., 20 Nov 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal. 670, 1, p. 105-115 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Mass Functions of the Active Black Holes in Distant Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3

    Vestergaard, Marianne, Fan, X., Tremonti, C. A., Osmer, P. S. & Richards, G. T., 31 Dec 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 674, 1, L1.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. 2006
  37. A reverberation-based mass for the central black hole in NGC 4151

    Bentz, M. C., Denney, K. D., Cackett, E. M., Dietrich, M., Fogel, J. K. J., Ghosh, H., Horne, K., Kuehn, C., Minezaki, T., Onken, C. A., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Pronik, V. I., Richstone, D. O., Sergeev, S. G., Vestergaard, Marianne, Walker, M. G. & Yoshii, Y., 10 Nov 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 651, 2 I, p. 775-781 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements

    Bentz, M. C., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Vestergaard, Marianne & Onken, C. A., 18 Feb 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 644, 1, 133.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Systematic effects in measurement of black hole masses by emission-line reverberation of active galactic nuclei: Eddington ratio and inclination

    Collin, S., Kawaguchi, T., Peterson, B. M. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Sep 2006, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 456, 1, p. 75-90 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. Published

    The Mass of the Black Hole in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4593 from Reverberation Mapping

    Denney, K. D., Bentz, M. C., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Cackett, E. M., Dietrich, M., Fogel, J. K. J., Ghosh, H., Horne, K., Kuehn, C., Minezaki, T., Onken, C. A., Pronik, V. I., Richstone, D. O., Sergeev, S. G., Vestergaard, Marianne, Walker, M. G. & Yoshii, Y., 18 Aug 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 653, 1, 152.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Probing the evolution of infrared properties of z ∼ 6 quasars: Spitzer observations

    Jiang, L., Fan, X., Hines, D. C., Shi, Y., Vestergaard, Marianne, Bertoldi, F., Brandt, W. N., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Le Floc'h, E., Pentericci, L., Richards, G. T., Rieke, G. H., Schneider, D. P., Strauss, M. A., Walter, F. & Brinkmann, J., 1 Nov 2006, In: Astronomical Journal. 132, 5, p. 2127-2134 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. An MMT hectospec redshift survey of 24 μm sources in the SPITZER First Look Survey

    Papovich, C., Cool, R., Eisenstein, D., Le Floc'h, E., Xiaohui, F. A. N., Kennicutt, R. C., Smith, J. D. T., Rieke, G. H. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Jul 2006, In: Astronomical Journal. 132, 1, p. 231-241 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  43. Spectral energy distributions and multiwavelength selection of type 1 quasars

    Richards, G. T., Lacy, M., Storrie-Lombardi, L. J., Hall, P. B., Gallagher, S. C., Hines, D. C., Xiaohui, F., Papovich, C., Vanden Berk, D. E., Trammell, G. B., Schneider, D. P., Vestergaard, Marianne, York, D. G., Jester, S., Anderson, S. F., Budavári, T. & Szalay, A. S., 1 Oct 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 166, 2, p. 470-497 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. A first step toward constraining supermassive black-hole growth

    Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Nov 2006, In: New Astronomy Reviews. 50, 9-10, p. 817-820 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    Determining Central Black Hole Masses in Distant Active Galaxies and Quasars. II. Improved Optical and UV Scaling Relationships

    Vestergaard, Marianne & Peterson, B. M., 13 Jan 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 641, 2, 689.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. 2005
  47. Published

    A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV

    Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Richards, G. T., Hennawi, J. F., Becker, R. H., White, R. L., Diamond-Stanic, A. M., onley, J. L. D., Jiang, L., Kim, J. S., Vestergaard, M., Young, J. E., Gunn, J. E., Lupton, R. H., Knapp, G. R., Schneider, D. P., Brandt, W. N., Bahcall, N. A., Barentine, J. C., Brinkmann, J. & 10 others, Brewington, H. J., ukugita, M. F., Harvanek, M., Kleinman, S. J., Krzesinski, J., Long, D., Eric H. N eilsen, J., Nitta, A., Snedden, S. A. & Voges, W., 4 Dec 2005, In: Astronomical Journal. 131, 3, 131.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    The Relationship Between Luminosity and Broad-Line Region Size in Active Galactic Nuclei

    Kaspi, S., Maoz, D., Netzer, H., Peterson, B. M., Vestergaard, Marianne & Jannuzi, B. T., 21 Apr 2005, In: Astrophysical Journal. 629, 1, 61.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Variability of Fe II Emission Features in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548

    Vestergaard, Marianne & Peterson, B. M., 21 Feb 2005, In: Astrophysical Journal. 625, 2, 688.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  50. 2004
  51. High Redshift Quasars as Probes of Early Star Formation

    Dietrich, M., Hamann, F. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Jun 2004, In: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Conference Proceedings. 311, p. 403

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articleResearchpeer-review

  52. Emission line properties of active galactic nuclei from a post-COSTAR Hubble Space Telescope faint object spectrograph spectral atlas

    Kuraszkiewicz, J. K., Green, P. J., Michael Crenshaw, D., Dunn, J., Forster, K., Vestergaard, Marianne & Aldcroft, T. L., 1 Jan 2004, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 150, 1, p. 165-180 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  53. Published

    Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei

    Onken, C. A., Ferrarese, L., Merritt, D., Peterson, B. M., Pogge, R. W., Vestergaard, Marianne & Wandel, A., 14 Jul 2004, In: Astrophysical Journal. 615, 2, 645.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  54. Published

    Central Masses and Broad-Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation-Mapping Database

    Peterson, B. M., Ferrarese, L., Gilbert, K. M., Kaspi, S., Malkan, M. A., Maoz, D., Merritt, D., Netzer, H., Onken, C. A., Pogge, R. W., Vestergaard, Marianne & Wandel, A., 14 Jul 2004, In: Astrophysical Journal. 613, 2, 682.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  55. Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?

    Scoggins, B., Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Z. & Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Dec 2004, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 36

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  56. Black Hole Masses of High-Redshift Quasars

    Vestergaard, Marianne, 1 Oct 2004, In: MULTIWAVELENGTH AGN SURVEYS. Proceedings of the Guillermo Haro Conference 2003. Held 8-12 December 2003 in Cozumel, Mexico. Edited by Raúl Mújica (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico) & Roberto Maiolino (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy). p. 385-388

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articleResearchpeer-review

  57. Published

    Black-Hole Mass Measurements

    Vestergaard, Marianne, 21 Jan 2004, In: ASP Conference Series. 311

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  58. 2003
  59. Published

    Elemental Abundances in the Broad Emission Line Region of Quasars at Redshifts larger than 4

    Dietrich, M., Appenzeller, I., Hamann, F., Heidt, J., Jaeger, K., Vestergaard, Marianne & Wagner, S. J., 2 Feb 2003, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 398, 3, p. 891-899

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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