Marianne Vestergaard

Papers in Refereed Journals (37 papers)

• ``NGC 5548 in a Low Luminosity State: Implications for the Broad-line Region'' , NEW!
  M.C. Bentz et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2007, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0702644)
• ``Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Fourteen Low-Redshift Quasars'', NEW!
  R. Ganguly, et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2007, AJ, 133, 479 (astro-ph/0610435)
• ``The Mass of the Black Hole in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4593 from Reverberation Mapping'', NEW!
  K. Denney, et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2006, ApJ, 653, 152 (astro-ph/0608406)
• ``Probing the Evolution of IR Properties of z ~ 6 Quasars: Spitzer Observations'', NEW!
  L. Jiang, X. Fan, Dean C. Hines, Y. Shi, M. Vestergaard, F. Bertoldi, W.N. Brandt, C.L. Carilli, P. Cox, E. Le Floch, L. Pentericci, G.T. Richards, G.H. Rieke, D.P. Schneider, M.A. Strauss, F. Walter 2006, AJ, 132, 2127 (astro-ph/0608006)
• ``A Reverberation-Based Mass for the Central Black Hole in NGC 4151'', NEW!
  M.C. Bentz et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2006, ApJ, 651, 775 (astro-ph/0607085)
• ``Systematic Effects in Measurement of Black Hole Masses by Emission-Line Reverberation of Active Galactic Nuclei: Eddington Ratio and Inclination'', NEW!
  S. Collin, T. Kawaguchi, B.M. Peterson, and M. Vestergaard, 2006, A and A, 456, 75 (astro-ph/0603460)
• ``Spectral Energy Distributions and Multiwavelength Selection of Type 1 Quasars'' ,
  G. Richards et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2006, AJ, 166, 470 (astro-ph/0601558 )
• ``The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements'',
  Misty C. Bentz, Bradley M. Peterson, Richard W. Pogge, Marianne Vestergaard, Christopher A. Onken 2006, ApJ, 644, 133
  (astro-ph/0602412)
• ``A MMT/Hectospec Redshift Survey of 24 Micron Sources in the Spitzer First Look Survey'',
  C. Papovich, et al. (including M. Vestergaard), 2006, AJ, 132, 231 (astro-ph/0512623 )
• ``A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars'',
  X. Fan et al. (including M. Vestergaard ) 2006, AJ, 131, 1203 (astro-ph/0512080)
• ``Determining Central Black Hole Masses in Distant Active Galaxies and Quasars. II. Improved Optical and UV Scaling Relationships.'',
  M. Vestergaard and B. M. Peterson, 2006, ApJ, 641, 689 (astro-ph/0601303)
• ``The Relationship between Luminosity and Broad-Line Region Size in Active Galactic Nuclei'' ,
  S. Kaspi, D. Maoz, H. Netzer, B. M. Peterson, M. Vestergaard, B. T. Januzzi, 2005, ApJ, 629, 61 (astro-ph/0504484)
• ``Variability of Fe II Emission Features in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548'' ,
  M. Vestergaard and B.M. Peterson, 2005, ApJ, 625, 688 (astro-ph/0502433)
• ``Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole MassVelocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei'' ,
  C. A. Onken, L. Ferrarese, D. Merritt, B. M. Peterson, R. W. Pogge, M. Vestergaard, A. Wandel, 2004, ApJ, 615, 645 (astro-ph/0407297)
• `` Central Masses and Broad-Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation-Mapping Database'' ,
  B.M. Peterson, L. Ferrarese, K.M. Gilbert, S. Kaspi, M.A. Malkan, D. Maoz, D. Merritt, H. Netzer, C.A. Onken, R.W. Pogge, M. Vestergaard, A. Wandel, 2004, ApJ, 613, 682-699
• ``Early Growth and Efficient Accretion of Massive Black Holes at High Redshift'' ,
  M. Vestergaard, 2004, ApJ, 601, 676-691, (astro-ph/0309521)
• ``Emission Line Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei from a Post-COSTAR Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph Spectral Atlas'',
  J.K. Kuraszkiewicz, P.J. Green, D.M. Crenshaw, J. Dunn, K. Forster, M. Vestergaard, T.L. Aldcroft, 2004, ApJS, 150, 165-180
• ``Occurrence and Global Properties of Narrow CIV lambda 1549 Absorption Lines in Moderate-Redshift Quasars'',
  M. Vestergaard, 2003, ApJ, 599, 116-139, (astro-ph/0309550)
• ``FeII/MgII Emission Line Ratio in High Redshift Quasars'' ,
  M. Dietrich, F. Hamann, I. Appenzeller, M. Vestergaard, 2003, ApJ, 596, 817-829, (astro-ph/0306584)
• ``Quasar Elemental Abundances at High Redshifts'' ,
  M. Dietrich, F. Hamann, J.C. Shields, A. Constantin, J. Heidt, K. Jäger, M. Vestergaard, S.J. Wagner, 2003, ApJ, 589, 722-732, (astro-ph/0302494)
• ``Elemental abundances in the broad emission line region of quasars at redshifts larger than 4'' ,
  M. Dietrich, I. Appenzeller, F. Hamann, J. Heidt, K. Jäger, M. Vestergaard , S. J. Wagner, 2003, A&A, 398, 891-899, (astro-ph/0211466)
• ``Continuum and Emission-Line Strength Relations for a Large Active Galactic Nuclei Sample'' ,
  M. Dietrich, F. Hamann, J. C. Shields, A. Constantin, M. Vestergaard , F. Chaffee, C. B. Foltz, V. T. Junkkarinen, 2002, ApJ, 581, 912-924, (astro-ph/0208348)
• ``Determining Central Black Hole Masses in Distant Active Galaxies'' ,
  M. Vestergaard 2002, ApJ, 571, 733, ( astro-ph/0204106 )
• ``High Redshift Quasars and Star Formation in the Early Universe'',
  M. Dietrich, I. Appenzeller, M. Vestergaard, S.J. Wagner, 2002, ApJ, 564, 581-591, ( astro-ph/0109208 )
• ``Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Akn 564. III. Optical Observations and the Optical--UV--X-ray Connection '',
  O.Shemmer et al. 2001 (39 authors, incl. M. Vestergaard), ApJ, 561, 162 ( astro-ph/0107075)
• ``An Empirical Template Spectrum for Ultraviolet Iron Emission in Quasars as Derived from I Zw 1'',
  Vestergaard, M., & Wilkes, B.J., 2001, ApJS, 134, 1-33. (astro-ph/0104320)
• ``Emission Line Properties of the Large Bright Quasar Survey'',
  Forster, K., Green, P. J., Aldcroft, T. L., Vestergaard, M., Foltz, C. B., & Hewitt, P. C. 2001, ApJS, 134, 35-51 (astro-ph/0011373)
• ``VLT identification of the optical afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB 000131 at z=4.50'',
  Andersen, M. I. et al (19 authors, incl. Vestergaard, M.), 2000, A&A, 364, L54
• ``[OII] emission, eigenvector 1 and orientation in radio-quiet quasars'',
  Kuraszkiewicz, J., Wilkes, B. J., Brandt, W. N., & Vestergaard, M., 2000, ApJ, 542, 631-643 (astro-ph/0005385)
• ``X-Ray and Optical Variability in NGC 4051 and the Nature of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies'',
  Peterson, B. M., McHardy, I. M., Wilkes, B. J., Berlind, P., Bertram, R., Calkins, M., Collier, S. J., Huchra, J. P., Mathur, S., Papadakis, I., Peters, J., Pogge, R. W., Romano, P., Tokarz, S., Uttley, P., Vestergaard, M., & Wagner, R. M., 2000, ApJ, 542, 161-174 (astro-ph/0005433)
• ``Clues to Quasar Broad Line Region Geometry and Kinematics'',
  Vestergaard, M., Wilkes, B. J., & Barthel, P. D., 2000, ApJL, 538, L103-106 (astro-ph/0006165)
• ``Are Radio-loud Quasars Rebellious or Are Radio-quiets Just Plain Untalented? A Study of the Ultraviolet Broad Emission Line Profiles in High-Redshift Radio-loud and Radio-quiet Quasars'',
  Vestergaard, M., 2000, PASP, 112, 1504-1505 (no. 777) ADS link
• ``Radio Imaging of Core-dominated High Redshift Quasars'',
  Barthel, P. D., Vestergaard, M., & Lonsdale, C. J., 2000, A&A, 354, 7-16
• ``X-ray Emission from the Radio Jet in 3C 120'',
  Harris, D., Hjorth, J., Sadun, A., Silverman, J. D., & Vestergaard, M., 1999, ApJ, 518, 213-218
• "Monitoring of the Einstein Cross with the Nordic Optical Telescope'',
  Østensen, R., Refsdal, S., Stabel, R., (30 authors, incl. Vestergaard, M.), 1996, A&A, 309, 59-64
• ``Detection of a Faint Optical Jet in 3C120'',
  Hjorth, J., Vestergaard, M., Sørensen, A.N., & Grundahl, F., 1995, ApJL, 452, L17-21
• ``The Nucleus of Cygnus A'',
  Vestergaard, M. & Barthel, P.D., 1993, AJ, 105, 456-463

• ``GRB 000131 optical observations'' ,
  Pedersen, H., Jensen, B. L., Hjorth, J., Fogh Olsen, L., Andersen, M. I., Gorosabel, J., Vestergaard, M., Kaper, L., Jaunsen, A. O. 2000,
  GRB Circular Network, 534, 1

Encyclopedia Contributions

• ``Quasars'',
  Peterson, B. M., Mathur, S., Osmer, P. S., Vestergaard, M., 2002, in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition, Volume 13, page 465-480

• `` A Step Toward Constraining Supermassive Black Hole Growth: Quasar Black Hole Mass Distributions and Mass Functions'', NEW!
  M. Vestergaard 2006, in ``Physics and Astrophysics of Supermassive Black-Holes'', (follow link to participants list and click on my contribution), ed. Chris Fryer (Los Alamos Laboratory).
• ``Quasar Narrow CIV Absorbers: Useful Probes of Disk Winds?'', NEW!
  M. Vestergaard 2005, in ``AGN Winds in the Carribean'', (follow link from the program entry to contribution), ed. Karen Leighly (Univ. of Oklahoma).
• ``A First Step Toward Constraining Supermassive Black-Hole Growth'',
  M. Vestergaard 2005, in ``QSO Host Galaxies: Evolution and Environments'', ed Peter Barthel and David Sanders, New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 50, Issues 9-10 , November 2006, Pages 817-820 (Amsterdam: Elsevier) [ ADS Link ] NEW!
  
• ``First Steps Toward Constraining Supermassive Black-Hole Growth'',
  M. Vestergaard 2005, in ``Superunification of Active Galactic Nuclei: Black Hole Mass, Spin and Accretion Rate'', Ed. A. Marconi (Arcetri, Italy) [ http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~agn2005/ ; follow link to ``Scientific Program'']
• ``First Steps Toward Constraining Supermassive Black-Hole Growth'',
  M. Vestergaard 2004, in 1st Arizona/Heidelberg Symposium - The High Redshift Frontier, Ed. W. J. Duschl (Heidelberg: ITA, http://highz.ita.uni-heidelberg.de/) and Proceedings
• ``First Steps Toward Constraining Supermassive Black-Hole Growth''
  Vestergaard, M. 2004, in The 2004 Ringberg Castle Workshop on AGN Physics, ed. Th. Boller (Garching: Max Planck Institute für extraterrestrische Physik, http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~bol/ringberg_2004/)
• "Black-Hole Masses of High-Redshift Quasars" ,
  M. Vestergaard 2004, Multiwavelength AGN Surveys, ed. R. Mujica and R. Maiolino (Singapore: World Scientific), 385
• ``Black-Hole Mass Measurements'',
  M. Vestergaard 2004, invited review in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol 311: AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall, 69 (astro-ph/0401436)
• ``Evidence for Eearly or Efficient Black-Hole Growth'',
  M. Vestergaard 2004, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol 311: AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall, 87 (astro-ph/0401430)
• ``High Redshift Quasars as Probes of Early Star Formation'' ,
  M. Dietrich, F. Hamann, and M. Vestergaard 2004, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol 311: AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, eds. G.T. Richards and P.B. Hall, 403
• ``Evidence for Early Black Hole Growth''
  Vestergaard, M. 2004, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L. C. Ho (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium1/proceedings.html)
• ``High-redshift Quasars and Early Star Formation''
  M. Dietrich, F. Hamann, I. Appenzeller, M. Vestergaard, S. Wagner 2004, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 4: Origin and Evolution of the Elements, ed. A. McWilliam and M. Rauch (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium4/proceedings.html)
• ``Emission Line Properties of AGN from a post-COSTAR FOS HST Spectral Atlas'',
  J.K. Kuraszkiewicz, P.J. Green, D.M. Crenshaw, J. Dunn, K. Forster, M. Vestergaard, T.L. Aldcroft, 2003, BAAS, 203, 55.10
• ``First Steps Toward Constraining Super-Massive Black-Hole Growth'',
  M. Vestergaard, 2003, in Stars and Structure Formation: From First Light to the Milky Way (No proceedings will appear from this meeting).
• ``Continuum and Emission Line Correlations in AGN'' ,
  M. Dietrich, F. Hamann, J.C. Shields, A. Constantin, M. Vestergaard, 2002, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 290: Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy, eds. S. Collin, F. Combes, I. Shlosman, (ASP: San Francisco), 607
• `` Narrow CIV 1549A Absorption Lines in Moderate-Redshift Quasars'' ,
  Vestergaard, M. 2002, in Mass Outflow in Active Galactic Nuclei: New Perspectives, ed. D. M. Crenshaw, S. B. Kraemer, and I. M. George, (ASP: San Francisco), 143-148 (astro-ph/0109382)
• ``The Central Masses of Radio-loud and Radio-quiet Quasars'' ,
  Vestergaard, M. 2001, BAAS, 199, 77.01
• ``An Empirical Ultraviolet Iron Spectrum Template Applicable to Active Galaxies'', ,
  Vestergaard, M. & Wilkes, B. J. 2001, in Spectroscopic Challenges of Photoionized Plasmas, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 247, eds. G. J. Ferland and D. W. Savin, (ASP: San Francisco), 359 ( astro-ph/0106510 )
• ``Narrow CIV lambda 1549 Absorption Lines in Moderate-Redshift Quasars'',
  Vestergaard, M., Ho, L. C. 2000, BAAS, 197, 110.05
• ``H/RCULES and the LBQS: Results from an emission line study'',
  Forster, K., Green, P. J., Vestergaard, M., Aldcroft, T. L. 2000, BAAS, 196, 62.05
• ``The UV spectra of NLS1s - implications for their broad line regions'',
  Kuraszkiewicz, J. K., Wilkes, B. J., Czerny, B., Mathur, S., Brandt, W. N., Vestergaard, M. 2000, New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 44, Issue 7-9, p. 573-575 "astro-ph/0005160''
• ``Narrow Absorption Lines in Moderate-Redshift Quasars'',
  Vestergaard, M., Ho, L. C. 2000, BAAS, 196, 50.08
• ``A Model of Radio-loud and Radio-quiet Quasars'',
  Vestergaard, M. 1999, BAAS, 194, 20.06
• "An Empirical Ultraviolet Iron Spectrum Template'',
  Vestergaard, M., Wilkes, B. J. in Structure and Kinematics of Quasar Broad Line Regions, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 175. Ed. C. M. Gaskell, W. N. Brandt, M. Dietrich, D. Dultzin-Hacyan, and M. Eracleous. ISBN: 1-886733-97-X (1999), p. 297-302
• ``X-ray Emission from the Radio Jet in 3C 120'',
  Harris, D. E., Vestergaard, M., Hjorth, J., Sadun, A. C., Silverman, J. D. 1998, BAAS, 193, 110.02
• ``Clues to QSO BLR Structure from Broad Line Profile Analysis"
  Vestergaard, M. 1998, BAAS, 193, 27.02
• ``An Empirical UV Fe Template as Derived From I Zwicky 1'',
  Vestergaard, M., Wilkes, B. J. 1997, BAAS, 191, 31.02
• "On the Geometry of Associated Absorption in Radio-Loud QSOs'',
  Barthel, P. D., Tytler, D. R., Vestergaard, M. 1997 in ASP Conference Series 128, Mass Ejection from Active Galactic Nuclei, eds. N. Arav, I. Shlosman, and R. J. Weymann, (San Franscisco: ASP), p. 48
• ``Are Radio-Loud Quasars Rebellious Or Are Radio-Quiets Just Plain Untalented?'',
  Vestergaard, M., Wilkes, B. J., Barthel, P. D. 1997, in Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques, Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 159, eds. B. M. Peterson, F.- Z. Cheng, and A. S. Wilson, (San Francisco: ASP), 1997 p. 256.
• ``Are Radio-Loud Quasars Rebellious or Are Radio-Quiets Just Plain Untalented?'',
  Vestergaard, M., Wilkes, B. J., Barthel, P. 1996, BAAS, 189, 98.10
• ``A ROSAT Observation of the Jet and Nucleus of 3C 120'',
  Sadun, A. C., Harris, D. E., Vestergaard, M., Hjorth, J. 1996, BAAS, 189, 40.02
• ``The Nucleus of the Cygnus A Galaxy at High Resolution'',
  Vestergaard, M., Barthel, P. D. 1993, Ap&SS, 205, 135-140

• Ph.D. Dissertation: ``Are Radio-loud QSOs Rebellious or Are Radio-quiets Just Plain Untalented? -- A Study of the UV Broad Emission Line Profiles in High-Redshift Radio-loud and Radio-quiet Quasars'' (February 1999) (PASP Dissertation Abstract)
• Cand. Scient. (Masters) Thesis: ``The Central Regions of Cygnus A -- A Nearby Quasar?'' (November 1992)
• ``The Pixel Size of the Standby CCD Camera" ,
  Vestergaard, M. & Barthel, P.D., 1992, NOT News 6 (Internal Report, The Nordic Optical Telescope), 32
• ``The Nucleus of the Cygnus A Galaxy" ,
  Vestergaard, M. & Barthel, P.D., 1992, NOT News 5 (Internal Report, The Nordic Optical Telescope), 3

Recent Preprints

• ``NGC 5548 in a Low Luminosity State: Implications for the Broad-line Region'' , NEW!
  M.C. Bentz et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2007, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0702644)
• ``The Mass of the Black Hole in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4593 from Reverberation Mapping'', NEW!
  K. Denney, et al. (including M. Vestergaard) 2007, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0608406)
• ``A Reverberation-Based Mass for the Central Black Hole in NGC 4151'' (link pending) , NEW!
  M.C. Bentz, K.D. Denney, E.M. Caskett, M. Dietrich, J.K.J Fogel, H. Ghosh, K. Horne, C. Kuehn, T. Minezaki, C.A. Onken, B.M. Peterson, R.W. Pogge, V.I. Pronik, D.O. Richstone, S.G. Sergeev, M. Vestergaard, M.G. Walker, Y. Yoshii, 2006, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0607085)

In the Works

• ``Testing Disk Wind Models with Quasar CIV 1549A Absorption Lines'',
  Vestergaard, M. 2006, ApJ, submitted

mvestergaard@as.arizona.edu.