Reid, Mark

Inactive Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff

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Reid, Mark

Inactive Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff

Radio astronomy, including spectral-line very long-baseline interferometry; star formation; cosmic masers; active galactic nuclei and quasars; galactic structure and evolved stars.

Background And Education

Education And Training

B.A., University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Awards And Honors

Secretary's Distinguished Scholar Award, 2023
Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018

Research And Grants

Investigator On

Mapping the Milky Way awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
Mapping the Milky Way awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science

Publications

Selected Publications

Article
- Brunthaler, Andreas, Kyung Choi, Yoon, Menten, Karl M., and Reid, Mark J. 2025. "Investigating the nature of the protoplanetary nebula OH 231.8 4.2." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 702 A141. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555348. 2025
- Di Valentino, Eleonora, Said, Jackson Levi, Riess, Adam, Pollo, Agnieszka, Poulin, Vivian, Gómez-Valent, Adrià, Weltman, Amanda, Palmese, Antonella, Huang, Caroline D., Bruck, Carsten van de, Saraf, Chandra Shekhar, Kuo, Cheng-Yu, Uhlemann, Cora, Grandón, Daniela, Paz, Dante, Eckert, Dominique, Teixeira, Elsa M., Saridakis, Emmanuel N., Colgáin, Eoin Ó, Beutler, Florian, Niedermann, Florian, Bajardi, Francesco, Barenboim, Gabriela, Gubitosi, Giulia, Musella, Ilaria et al. 2025. "The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics." Physics of the Dark Universe, 49, (101965) 101965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2025.101965. 2025
- Kumar, Jayender, Reid, Mark J., Dame, T. M., Ellingsen, Simon P., Hyland, Lucas J., Brunthaler, Andreas, Menten, Karl M., Zheng, Xing-Wu, and Sanna, Alberto. 2025. "The Expanding 3 kpc Arms Are Neither Expanding nor Spiral Arms but X1 Orbits Driven by the Galactic Bar." The Astrophysical Journal, 982 185. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adb70f. 2025
- Bian, S. B., Wu, Y. W., Xu, Y., Reid, M. J., Li, J. J., Zhang, B., Menten, K. M., Moscadelli, L., and Brunthaler, A. 2024. "On the Structure of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm in the Inner Milky Way." The Astronomical Journal, 167 267. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4030. 2024
- Kuo, C. Y., Gao, F., Braatz, J. A., Pesce, D. W., Humphreys, E. M. L., Reid, M. J., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Henkel, C., Wagner, J., and Wu, C. E. 2024. "What determines the boundaries of H₂O maser emission in an X-ray illuminated gas disc?" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532 3020-3035. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1558. 2024
- Darling, Jeremy, Paine, Jennie, Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Sakai, Shoko, and Ghez, Andrea. 2023. "An Updated Reference Frame for the Galactic Inner Parsec." The Astrophysical Journal, 955 117. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acec71. 2023
- Hyland, L. J., Reid, M. J., Orosz, G., Ellingsen, S. P., Weston, S. D., Kumar, J., Dodson, R., Rioja, M. J., Hankey, W. J., Yates-Jones, P. M., Natusch, T., Gulyaev, S., Menten, K. M., and Brunthaler, A. 2023. "Inverse MultiView. II. Microarcsecond Trigonometric Parallaxes for Southern Hemisphere 6.7 GHz Methanol Masers G232.62 00.99 and G323.74-00.26." The Astrophysical Journal, 953 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acdbc5. 2023
- Reid, M. J. and Miller-Jones, J. C. A. 2023. "On the Distances to the X-Ray Binaries Cygnus X-3 and GRS 1915 105." The Astrophysical Journal, 959 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acfe0c. 2023
- Mai, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Bo, Reid, M. J., Moscadelli, L., Xu, Shuangjing, Sun, Yan, Zhang, Jingdong, Chen, Wen, Wen, Shiming, Luo, Qiuyi, Menten, Karl M., Zheng, Xingwu, Brunthaler, Andreas, Xu, Ye, and Wang, Guangli. 2023. "The Parallax and 3D Kinematics of Water Masers in the Massive Star-forming Region G034.43 0.24." The Astrophysical Journal, 949 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc52a. 2023
- Xu, Shuangjing, Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Zheng, Xingwu, Wang, Guangli, and Jung, Taehyun. 2022. "A Milliarcsecond-accurate Position for Sagittarius A*." The Astrophysical Journal, 940 15. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac98b9. 2022
- Sun, Yan, Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Xu, Shuangjing, Wen, Shiming, Zhang, Jingdong, and Zheng, Xingwu. 2022. "A Very Long Baseline Array Trigonometric Parallax for RR Aql and the Mira Period-Luminosity Relation." The Astrophysical Journal, 931 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac69e0. 2022
- Li, J. J., Immer, K., Reid, M. J., Sanna, A., Rygl, K. L. J., Xu, Y., Zhang, B., Brunthaler, A., and Menten, K. M. 2022. "Accurate Distances of Massive Young Stars in the Scutum Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 262 42. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac8791. 2022
- Hyland, L. J., Reid, M. J., Ellingsen, S. P., Rioja, M. J., Dodson, R., Orosz, G., Masson, Colin R., and McCallum, J. M. 2022. "Inverse Multiview. I. Multicalibrator Inverse Phase Referencing for Microarcsecond Very Long Baseline Interferometry Astrometry." The Astrophysical Journal, 932 52. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6d5b. 2022
- Reid, M. J. 2022. "On the Accuracy of Three-dimensional Kinematic Distances." The Astronomical Journal, 164 133. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac80bb. 2022
- Reid, M. J. 2022. "Techniques for Measuring Parallax and Proper Motion with VLBI." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 134 123001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/acabe6. 2022
- Miller-Jones, James C. A., Bahramian, Arash, Orosz, Jerome A., Mandel, Ilya, Gou, Lijun, Maccarone, Thomas J., Neijssel, Coenraad J., Zhao, Xueshan, Ziółkowski, Janusz, Reid, Mark J., Uttley, Phil, Zheng, Xueying, Byun, Do-Young, Dodson, Richard, Grinberg, Victoria, Jung, Taehyun, Kim, Jeong-Sook, Marcote, Benito, Markoff, Sera, Rioja, María J., Rushton, Anthony P., Russell, David M., Sivakoff, Gregory R., Tetarenko, Alexandra J., Tudose, Valeriu et al. 2021. "Cygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole-Implications for massive star winds." Science, 371 1046–1049. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb3363. 2021
- Wu, Y. W., Torricelli-Ciamponi, G., Massi, M., Reid, M. J., Zhang, B., Shao, L., and Zheng, X. W. 2021. "Erratum: Revisiting LS I 61°303 with VLBI astrometry." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505 2517–2517. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1583. 2021
- Xu, Y., Bian, S. B., Reid, M. J., Li, J. J., Menten, K. M., Dame, T. M., Zhang, B., Brunthaler, A., Wu, Y. W., Moscadelli, L., Wu, G., and Zheng, X. W. 2021. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Four Star-forming Regions in the Distant Inner Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 253 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abd8cf. 2021
- Ortiz-León, Gisela N., Menten, Karl M., Kamiński, Tomasz, Brunthaler, Andreas, Reid, Mark J., and Tylenda, Romuald. 2020. "SiO maser astrometry of the red transient V838 Monocerotis." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 638 A17. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037712. 2020
- Kuo, C. Y., Braatz, J. A., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Gao, F., Pesce, Dominic W., Reid, Mark J., Condon, J., Kamali, F., Henkel, C., and Greene, J. E. 2020. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project - XII. VLBI imaging of H₂O maser emission in three active galaxies and the effect of AGN winds on disc dynamics." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 1609–1627. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2260. 2020
- Pesce, Dominic W., Braatz, J. A., Reid, Mark J., Condon, J. J., Gao, F., Henkel, C., Kuo, C. Y., Lo, K. Y., and Zhao, W. 2020. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. XI. A Geometric Distance to CGCG 074-064." The Astrophysical Journal, 890 118. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6bcd. 2020
- Pesce, Dominic W., Braatz, J. A., Reid, Mark J., Riess, A. G., Scolnic, D., Condon, J. J., Gao, F., Henkel, C., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Kuo, C. Y., and Lo, K. Y. 2020. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. XIII. Combined Hubble Constant Constraints." The Astrophysical Journal, 891 L1. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab75f0. 2020
- Reid, Mark J. and Brunthaler, A. 2020. "The Proper Motion of Sagittarius A*. III. The Case for a Supermassive Black Hole." The Astrophysical Journal, 892 39. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab76cd. 2020
- Reid, Mark J. and Menten, Karl M. 2020. "The first stellar parallaxes revisited." Astronomische Nachrichten, 341 860–869. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.202013833. 2020
- Kamali, F., Henkel, C., Koyama, S., Kuo, C. Y., Condon, J. J., Brunthaler, A., Reid, Mark J., Greene, J. E., Menten, K. M., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Braatz, J. A., Litzinger, E., and Kadler, M. 2019. "Accretion disk versus jet orientation in H₂O megamaser galaxies." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 624 A42. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834600. 2019
- Reid, Mark J., Pesce, Dominic W., and Riess, A. G. 2019. "An Improved Distance to NGC 4258 and Its Implications for the Hubble Constant." The Astrophysical Journal, 886 L27. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab552d. 2019
- Immer, K., Li, J., Quiroga-Nuñez, L. H., Reid, Mark J., Zhang, B., Moscadelli, L., and Rygl, K. L. J. 2019. "Anomalous peculiar motions of high-mass young stars in the Scutum spiral arm." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 632 A123. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834208. 2019
- Xu, Shuangjing, Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Zheng, Xingwu, and Wang, Guangli. 2019. "Comparison of Gaia DR2 Parallaxes of Stars with VLBI Astrometry." The Astrophysical Journal, 875 114. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e83. 2019
- Safarzadeh, Mohammadtaher, Loeb, Abraham, and Reid, Mark. 2019. "Constraining a black hole companion for M87* through imaging by the Event Horizon Telescope." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488 L90–L93. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz108. 2019
- Sakai, Nobuyuki, Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, Andreas, and Dame, Thomas M. 2019. "Noncircular Motions in the Outer Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 876 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab12e0. 2019
- Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Zhang, Lian, Wu, Yuanwei, Hu, Bo, Sakai, Nobuyuki, Menten, Karl M., Zheng, Xingwu, Brunthaler, Andreas, Dame, Thomas M., and Xu, Ye. 2019. "Parallaxes for Star-forming Regions in the Inner Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astronomical Journal, 157 200. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab141d. 2019
- Quiroga-Nuñez, L. H., Immer, K., van Langevelde, H. J., Reid, M. J., and Burns, R. A. 2019. "Resolving the distance controversy for Sharpless 269. A possible kink in the outer arm." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 625 A70. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834726. 2019
- Reid, Mark J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Dame, Thomas M., Xu, Y., Li, J., Sakai, N., Wu, Y., Immer, K., Zhang, B., Sanna, A., Moscadelli, L., Rygl, K. L. J., Bartkiewicz, A., Hu, B., Quiroga-Nuñez, L. H., and van Langevelde, H. J. 2019. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of High-mass Star-forming Regions: Our View of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 885 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a11. 2019
- Wu, Y. W., Reid, Mark J., Sakai, N., Dame, Thomas M., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Xu, Y., Li, J. J., Ho, B., Zhang, B., Rygl, K. L. J., and Zheng, X. W. 2019. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star-forming Regions beyond the Tangent Point of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 874 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab001a. 2019
- Wu, Y. W., Torricelli-Ciamponi, G., Massi, M., Reid, M. J., Zhang, B., Shao, L., and Zheng, X. W. 2018. "Revisiting LS I 61°303 with VLBI astrometry." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474 4245–4253. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3003. 2018
- Matthews, L. D., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., and Akiyama, K. 2018. "The Evolving Radio Photospheres of Long-period Variable Stars." The Astronomical Journal, 156 15. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aac491. 2018
- Zhao, Wei, Braatz, James A., Condon, James J., Lo, K. Y., Reid, Mark J., Henkel, C., Pesce, Dominic W., Greene, J. E., Gao, F., Kuo, C. Y., and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. 2018. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. X. High-resolution Maps and Mass Constraints for SMBHs." The Astrophysical Journal, 854 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa95c. 2018
- Forbrich, Jan, Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Rivilla, Victor M., Wolk, Scott J., Rau, Urvashi, and Chandler, Claire J. 2017. "Extreme Radio Flares and Associated X-Ray Variability from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 844 109. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7aa4. 2017
- Sanna, Alberto, Reid, Mark J., Dame, Thomas M., Menten, Karl M., and Brunthaler, Andreas. 2017. "Mapping spiral structure on the far side of the Milky Way." Science, 358 227–230. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5452. 2017
- Krishnan, V., Ellingsen, S. P., Reid, M. J., Bignall, H. E., McCallum, J., Phillips, C. J., Reynolds, C., and Stevens, J. 2017. "Parallaxes of 6.7-GHz methanol masers towards the G 305.2 high-mass star formation region." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465 1095–1105. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2850. 2017
- Kamali, F., Henkel, C., Brunthaler, A., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Menten, K. M., Braatz, J. A., Greene, J. E., Reid, M. J., Condon, J. J., Lo, K. Y., Kuo, C. Y., Litzinger, E., and Kadler, M. 2017. "Radio continuum of galaxies with H2O megamaser disks: 33 GHz VLA data." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 605 A84. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730899. 2017
- Quiroga-Nuñez, L. H., van Langevelde, H. J., Reid, M. J., and Green, J. A. 2017. "Simulated Galactic methanol maser distribution to constrain Milky Way parameters." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 604 A72. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730681. 2017
- Reid, M. J., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., Sanna, A., Xu, Y., Li, J. J., Wu, Y., Hu, B., Zheng, X. W., Zhang, B., Immer, K., Rygl, K., Moscadelli, L., Sakai, N., Bartkiewicz, A., and Choi, Y. K. 2017. "Techniques for Accurate Parallax Measurements for 6.7 GHz Methanol Masers." The Astronomical Journal, 154 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa7850. 2017
- Gao, Feng, Braatz, James A., Reid, Mark J., Condon, James J., Greene, J. E., Henkel, Christian, Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Lo, K. Y., Kuo, C. Y., Pesce, Dominic W., Wagner, J., and Zhao, W. 2017. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. IX. Black Hole Masses for Three Maser Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 834 52. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/52. 2017
- Zhang, Bo, Zheng, Xingwu, Reid, Mark J., Honma, Mareki, Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, Andreas, and Kim, Jaeheon. 2017. "VLBA Trigonometric Parallax Measurement of the Semi-regular Variable RT Vir." The Astrophysical Journal, 849 99. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ee9. 2017
- Riess, Adam G., Macri, Lucas M., Hoffmann, Samantha L., Scolnic, Dan, Casertano, Stefano, Filippenko, Alexei V., Tucker, Brad E., Reid, Mark J., Jones, David O., Silverman, Jeffrey M., Chornock, Ryan, Challis, Peter, Yuan, Wenlong, Brown, Peter J., and Foley, Ryan J. 2016. "A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant." The Astrophysical Journal, 826 56. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/56. 2016
- Bower, Geoffrey C., Deller, Adam, Demorest, Paul, Brunthaler, Andreas, Falcke, Heino, Moscibrodzka, Monika, O'Leary, Ryan M., Eatough, Ralph P., Kramer, Michael, Lee, K. J., Spitler, Laura, Desvignes, Gregory, Rushton, Anthony P., Doeleman, Sheperd, and Reid, Mark J. 2016. "Erratum: “The Proper Motion of the Galactic Center Pulsar Relative to Sagittarius A*” (2015, ApJ, 798, 120)." The Astrophysical Journal, 821 133. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/133. 2016
- Forbrich, Jan, Dupuy, Trent J., Reid, Mark J., Berger, Edo, Rizzuto, Aaron, Mann, Andrew W., Liu, Michael C., Aller, Kimberly, and Kraus, Adam L. 2016. "High-precision Radio and Infrared Astrometry of LSPM J1314 1320AB. I. Parallax, Proper Motions, and Limits on Planets." The Astrophysical Journal, 827 22. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/22. 2016
- Hu, B., Menten, K. M., Wu, Y., Bartkiewicz, A., Rygl, K., Reid, M. J., Urquhart, J. S., and Zheng, X. 2016. "On the Relationship of UC HII Regions and Class II Methanol Masers. I. Source Catalogs." The Astrophysical Journal, 833 18. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/833/1/18. 2016
- Reid, M. J. and Dame, T. M. 2016. "On the Rotation Speed of the Milky Way Determined from H i Emission." The Astrophysical Journal, 832 159. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/159. 2016
- Moscadelli, L., Sánchez-Monge, Á., Goddi, C., Li, J. J., Sanna, A., Cesaroni, R., Pestalozzi, M., Molinari, S., and Reid, M. J. 2016. "Outflow structure within 1000 au of high-mass YSOs. I. First results from a combined study of maser and radio continuum emission." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 585 A71. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526238. 2016
- Karami, Mansour, Broderick, Avery E., Rahvar, Sohrab, and Reid, Mark. 2016. "Resolving Microlensing Events with Triggered VLBI." The Astrophysical Journal, 833 169. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/169. 2016
- Gao, F., Braatz, J. A., Reid, Mark J., Lo, K. Y., Condon, J. J., Henkel, C., Kuo, C. Y., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Pesce, Dominic W., and Zhao, W. 2016. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. VIII. A Geometric Distance to NGC 5765b." The Astrophysical Journal, 817 128. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/128. 2016
- Forbrich, J., Rivilla, V. M., Menten, K. M., Reid, M. J., Chandler, C. J., Rau, U., Bhatnagar, S., Wolk, S. J., and Meingast, S. 2016. "The Population of Compact Radio Sources in the Orion Nebula Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 822 93. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/822/2/93. 2016
- Honig, Z. N. and Reid, M. J. 2015. "Characteristics of Spiral Arms in Late-type Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 800 53. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/53. 2015
- Krishnan, V., Ellingsen, S. P., Reid, M. J., Brunthaler, A., Sanna, A., McCallum, J., Reynolds, C., Bignall, H. E., Phillips, C. J., Dodson, R., Rioja, M., Caswell, J. L., Chen, X., Dawson, J. R., Fujisawa, K., Goedhart, S., Green, J. A., Hachisuka, K., Honma, M., Menten, K., Shen, Z. Q., Voronkov, M. A., Walsh, A. J., Xu, Y., Zhang, B. et al. 2015. "First Parallax Measurements Towards a 6.7 GHz Methanol Maser with the Australian Long Baseline Array - Distance to G 339.884-1.259." The Astrophysical Journal, 805 129. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/129. 2015
- Matthews, L. D., Reid, M. J., and Menten, K. M. 2015. "New Measurements of the Radio Photosphere of Mira Based on Data from the JVLA and ALMA." The Astrophysical Journal, 808 36. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/36. 2015
- Hachisuka, K., Choi, Y. K., Reid, M. J., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., Sanna, A., and Dame, T. M. 2015. "Parallaxes of Star-forming Regions in the Outer Spiral Arm of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 800 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/2. 2015
- Plewa, P. M., Gillessen, S., Eisenhauer, F., Ott, T., Pfuhl, O., George, E., Dexter, J., Habibi, M., Genzel, R., Reid, M. J., and Menten, K. M. 2015. "Pinpointing the near-infrared location of Sgr A* by correcting optical distortion in the NACO imager." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453 3234–3244. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1910. 2015
- Sanna, A., Menten, K. M., Carrasco-González, C., Reid, M. J., Ellingsen, S. P., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Cesaroni, R., and Krishnan, V. 2015. "The Environment of the Strongest Galactic Methanol Maser." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 804 L2. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/804/1/L2. 2015
- Kuo, C. Y., Braatz, J. A., Lo, K. Y., Reid, Mark J., Suyu, S. H., Pesce, Dominic W., Condon, J. J., Henkel, C., and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. 2015. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. VI. Observations of NGC 6323." The Astrophysical Journal, 800 26. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/26. 2015
- Pesce, Dominic W., Braatz, J. A., Condon, J. J., Gao, Feng, Henkel, C., Litzinger, E., Lo, K. Y., and Reid, Mark J. 2015. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. VII. Investigating Disk Physics Using Spectral Monitoring Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 810 65. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/65. 2015
- Bower, Geoffrey C., Deller, Adam, Demorest, Paul, Brunthaler, Andreas, Falcke, Heino, Moscibrodzka, Monika, O'Leary, Ryan M., Eatough, Ralph P., Kramer, Michael, Lee, K. J., Spitler, Laura, Desvignes, Gregory, Rushton, Anthony P., Doeleman, Sheperd, and Reid, Mark J. 2015. "The Proper Motion of the Galactic Center Pulsar Relative to Sagittarius A*." The Astrophysical Journal, 798 120. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/798/2/120. 2015
- Reid, M. J., McClintock, J. E., Steiner, J. F., Steeghs, D., Remillard, R. A., Dhawan, V., and Narayan, R. 2014. "A Parallax Distance to the Microquasar GRS 1915 105 and a Revised Estimate of its Black Hole Mass." The Astrophysical Journal, 796 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/796/1/2. 2014
- Gou, Lijun, McClintock, Jeffrey E., Remillard, Ronald A., Steiner, James F., Reid, Mark J., Orosz, Jerome A., Narayan, Ramesh, Hanke, Manfred, and García, Javier. 2014. "Confirmation via the Continuum-fitting Method that the Spin of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 Is Extreme." The Astrophysical Journal, 790 29. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/790/1/29. 2014
- Reid, M. J. and Honma, M. 2014. "Microarcsecond Radio Astrometry." Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 52 339–372. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-astro-081913-040006. 2014
- Zhang, B., Moscadelli, L., Sato, M., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Dame, T. M., Xu, Y., and Immer, K. 2014. "The Parallax of W43: a Massive Star-forming Complex near the Galactic Bar." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 89. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/89. 2014
- Immer, K., Cyganowski, C., Reid, M. J., and Menten, K. M. 2014. "The cometary H II regions of DR 21: Bow shocks or champagne flows or both?" Astronomy and Astrophysics, 563 39. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321736. 2014
- Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Dame, T. M., Xu, Y., Wu, Y., Zhang, B., Sanna, A., Sato, M., Hachisuka, K., Choi, Y. K., Immer, K., Moscadelli, L., Rygl, K. L. J., and Bartkiewicz, A. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of High Mass Star Forming Regions: The Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 783 130. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/783/2/130. 2014
- Choi, Y. K., Hachisuka, K., Reid, M. J., Xu, Y., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., and Dame, T. M. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions in the Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 790 99. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/790/2/99. 2014
- Sato, M., Wu, Y. W., Immer, K., Zhang, B., Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Dame, T. M., Brunthaler, A., and Menten, K. M. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions in the Scutum Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 793 72. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/793/2/72. 2014
- Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Dame, T. M., Zhang, B., Sato, M., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., and Immer, K. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes to Star-forming Regions within 4 kpc of the Galactic Center." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 108. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/108. 2014
- Wu, Y. W., Sato, M., Reid, M. J., Moscadelli, L., Zhang, B., Xu, Y., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., Dame, T. M., and Zheng, X. W. 2014. "Trigonometric parallaxes of star-forming regions in the Sagittarius spiral arm." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 566 17. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322765. 2014
- Forbrich, Jan, Berger, Edo, and Reid, Mark J. 2013. "An Astrometric Search for a Sub-stellar Companion of the M8.5 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546 Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry." The Astrophysical Journal, 777 70. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/1/70. 2013
- Sato, M., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., and Carilli, C. L. 2013. "On Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature at Redshift 0.89." The Astrophysical Journal, 764 132. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/132. 2013
- Xu, Y., Li, J. J., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Dame, T. M., and Zhang, B. 2013. "On the Nature of the Local Spiral Arm of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 769 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/769/1/15. 2013
- Zhang, B., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Dame, T. M., and Xu, Y. 2013. "Parallaxes for W49N and G048.60 0.02: Distant Star Forming Regions in the Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 775 79. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/775/1/79. 2013
- Reid, M. J., Braatz, J. A., Condon, J. J., Lo, K. Y., Kuo, C. Y., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., and Henkel, C. 2013. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. IV. A Direct Measurement of the Hubble Constant from UGC 3789." The Astrophysical Journal, 767 154. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/154. 2013
- Kuo, C. Y., Braatz, J. A., Reid, M. J., Lo, K. Y., Condon, J. J., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., and Henkel, C. 2013. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. V. An Angular-diameter Distance to NGC 6264 at 140 Mpc." The Astrophysical Journal, 767 155. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/155. 2013
- Steeghs, D., McClintock, J. E., Parsons, S. G., Reid, M. J., Littlefair, S., and Dhillon, V. S. 2013. "The Not-so-massive Black Hole in the Microquasar GRS1915 105." The Astrophysical Journal, 768 185. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/768/2/185. 2013
- Humphreys, E. M. L., Reid, M. J., Moran, James M., Greenhill, L. J., and Argon, A. L. 2013. "Toward a New Geometric Distance to the Active Galaxy NGC 4258. III. Final Results and the Hubble Constant." The Astrophysical Journal, 775 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/775/1/13. 2013
- Immer, K., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., and Dame, T. M. 2013. "Trigonometric parallaxes of massive star forming regions: G012.88 0.48 and W33." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 553 117. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220793. 2013
- Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Carrasco-González, C., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., and Rygl, K. L. J. 2012. "Clustered Star Formation and Outflows in AFGL 2591." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/191. 2012
- Zhang, B., Reid, Mark J., Menten, K. M., and Zheng, X. W. 2012. "Distance and Kinematics of the Red Hypergiant VY CMa: Very Long Baseline Array and Very Large Array Astrometry." The Astrophysical Journal, 744, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/744/1/23. 2012
- Steiner, James F., McClintock, Jeffrey E., and Reid, Mark J. 2012. "The Distance, Inclination, and Spin of the Black Hole Microquasar H1743-322." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 745, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/745/1/L7. 2012
- Zhang, B., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., and Brunthaler, A. 2012. "The distance and size of the red hypergiant NML Cygni from VLBA and VLA astrometry." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 544 42. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219587. 2012
- Menten, K. M., Reid, M. J., Kamiński, Tomasz, and Claussen, M. J. 2012. "The size, luminosity, and motion of the extreme carbon star IRC 10216 (CW Leonis)." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 543 73. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219422. 2012
- Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Dame, T. M., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Zheng, X. W., and Xu, Y. 2012. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-forming Regions. IX. The Outer Arm in the First Quadrant." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/82. 2012
- Patel, Nimesh A., Young, Ken H., Gottlieb, Carl A., Thaddeus, Patrick, Wilson, Robert W., Menten, Karl M., Reid, Mark J., McCarthy, Michael C., Cernicharo, José, He, JinHua, Brünken, Sandra, Trung, Dinh-V, and Keto, Eric R. 2011. "An Interferometric Spectral-line Survey of IRC 10216 in the 345 GHz Band." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 193 17. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/193/1/17. 2011
- Brunthaler, A., Reid, M. J., Menten, Karl M., Zheng, X. W., Bartkiewicz, A., Choi, Y. K., Dame, T., Hachisuka, K., Immer, K., Moellenbrock, G., Moscadelli, L., Rygl, K. L. J., Sanna, A., Sato, M., Wu, Y., Xu, Y., and Zhang, B. 2011. "The Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) survey: Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI astrometry." Astronomische Nachrichten, 332 461. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201111560. 2011
- Immer, K., Brunthaler, A., Reid, M. J., Bartkiewicz, A., Choi, Y. K., Menten, Karl M., Moscadelli, L., Sanna, A., Wu, Y. W., Xu, Y., Zhang, B., and Zheng, X. W. 2011. "The VLBA Calibrator Search for the BeSSeL Survey." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 194 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/194/2/25. 2011
- Xu, Y., Moscadelli, L., Reid, M. J., Menten, Karl M., Zhang, B., Zheng, X. W., and Brunthaler, A. 2011. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-forming Regions. VIII. G12.89 0.49, G15.03-0.68 (M17), and G27.36-0.16." The Astrophysical Journal, 733 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/733/1/25. 2011
- Bartko, H., Martins, F., Trippe, S., Fritz, T. K., Genzel, R., Ott, T., Eisenhauer, F., Gillessen, S., Paumard, T., Alexander, T., Dodds-Eden, K., Gerhard, O., Levin, Y., Mascetti, L., Nayakshin, S., Perets, H. B., Perrin, G., Pfuhl, O., Reid, Mark J., Rouan, D., Zilka, M., and Sternberg, A. 2010. "An Extremely Top-Heavy Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center Stellar Disks." The Astrophysical Journal, 708 834–840. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/708/1/834. 2010
- Sato, Mayumi, Hirota, Tomoya, Reid, Mark J., Honma, Mareki, Kobayashi, Hideyuki, Iwadate, Kenzaburo, Miyaji, Takeshi, and Shibata, Katsunori M. 2010. "Distance to G14.33-0.64 in the Sagittarius Spiral Arm: H₂O Maser Trigonometric Parallax with VERA." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 62 287. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/62.2.287. 2010
- Greene, Jenny E., Peng, Chien Y., Kim, Minjin, Kuo, Cheng-Yu, Braatz, James A., Violette Impellizzeri, C. M., Condon, James J., Lo, K. Y., Henkel, Christian, and Reid, Mark J. 2010. "Precise Black Hole Masses from Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass." The Astrophysical Journal, 721 26–45. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/721/1/26. 2010
- Braatz, J. A., Reid, Mark J., Humphreys, E. M. L., Henkel, C., Condon, J. J., and Lo, K. Y. 2010. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. II. The Angular-diameter Distance to UGC 3789." The Astrophysical Journal, 718 657–665. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/718/2/657. 2010
- Sato, M., Reid, Mark J., Brunthaler, A., and Menten, Karl M. 2010. "Trigonometric Parallax of W51 Main/South." The Astrophysical Journal, 720 1055–1065. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/720/2/1055. 2010
- Rygl, K. L. J., Brunthaler, A., Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., van Langevelde, H. J., and Xu, Y. 2010. "Trigonometric parallaxes of 6.7 GHz methanol masers." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 511 2. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913135. 2010
- Brunthaler, A., Martí-Vidal, I., Menten, Karl M., Reid, Mark J., Henkel, C., Bower, G. C., Falcke, H., Feng, H., Kaaret, P., Butler, N. R., Morgan, A. N., and Weiß, A. 2010. "VLBI observations of SN 2008iz. I. Expansion velocity and limits on anisotropic expansion." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 516 27. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014133. 2010
- Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., and Xu, Y. 2009. "A Trigonometric Parallax of Sgr B2." The Astrophysical Journal, 705 1548–1553. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/1548. 2009
- Zapata, Luis A., Menten, Karl M., Reid, Mark J., and Beuther, Henrik. 2009. "An Extensive, Sensitive Search for SiO Masers in High- and Intermediate-Mass Star-Forming Regions." The Astrophysical Journal, 691 332–341. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/691/1/332. 2009
- Winnberg, A., Deguchi, S., Reid, Mark J., Nakashima, J., Olofsson, H., and Habing, H. J. 2009. "CO in OH/IR stars close to the Galactic centre." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 497 177–181. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200911655. 2009
- Brunthaler, A., Castangia, P., Tarchi, A., Henkel, C., Reid, Mark J., Falcke, H., and Menten, Karl M. 2009. "Evidence of a pure starburst nature of the nuclear region of NGC 253." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 497 103–108. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200911615. 2009
- Yusef-Zadeh, F., Bushouse, H., Wardle, M., Heinke, C., Roberts, D. A., Dowell, C. D., Brunthaler, A., Reid, Mark J., Martin, C. L., Marrone, D. P., Porquet, D., Grosso, N., Dodds-Eden, K., Bower, G. C., Wiesemeyer, H., Miyazaki, A., Pal, S., Gillessen, S., Goldwurm, A., Trap, G., and Maness, H. 2009. "Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Observations of Sgr A* During 2007 April 1-11." The Astrophysical Journal, 706 348–375. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/348. 2009
- Reid, Mark J., Braatz, J. A., Condon, J. J., Greenhill, L. J., Henkel, C., and Lo, K. Y. 2009. "The Megamaser Cosmology Project. I. Very Long Baseline Interferometric Observations of UGC 3789." The Astrophysical Journal, 695 287–291. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/695/1/287. 2009
- Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Moscadelli, L., and Xu, Y. 2009. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. I. S 252 & G232.6 1.0." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 397–405. 2009
- Moscadelli, L., Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., and Xu, Y. 2009. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. II. Cep A and NGC 7538." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 406–412. 2009
- Zhang, B., Zheng, X. W., Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Xu, Y., Moscadelli, L., and Brunthaler, A. 2009. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. IV. G35.20--0.74 and G35.20--1.74." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 419–423. 2009
- Brunthaler, A., Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Zheng, X. W., Moscadelli, L., and Xu, Y. 2009. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. V. G23.01--0.41 and G23.44--0.18." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 424–429. 2009
- Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Xu, Y., Zhang, B., Sato, M., Honma, M., Hirota, T., Hachisuka, K., Choi, Y. K., Moellenbrock, G. A., and Bartkiewicz, A. 2009. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. VI. Galactic Structure, Fundamental Parameters, and Noncircular Motions." The Astrophysical Journal, 700 137–148. 2009
- Xu, Y., Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., and Moscadelli, L. 2009. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions: III. G59.7 0.1 and W 51 IRS2." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 413–418. 2009
- Forbrich, J., Menten, Karl M., and Reid, Mark J. 2008. "A 1.3 cm wavelength radio flare from a deeply embedded source in the Orion BN/KL region." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 477 267–272. 2008
- Menten, Karl M., Lundgren, A., Belloche, A., Thorwirth, S., and Reid, Mark J. 2008. "A multi-transition submillimeter water maser study of evolved stars. Detection of a new line near 475 GHz." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 477 185–192. 2008
- Matthews, L. D., Libert, Y., Gérard, E., Le Bertre, T., and Reid, Mark J. 2008. "Discovery of an H I Counterpart to the Extended Tail of Mira." The Astrophysical Journal, 684 603–610. https://doi.org/10.1086/589968. 2008
- Argon, A. L., Greenhill, L. J., Reid, Mark J., Moran, James M., and Humphreys, E. M. L. 2008. "Erratum: ``Toward a New Geometric Distance to the Active Galaxy NGC 4258. I. VLBI Monitoring of Water Maser Emission'' (ApJ, 659, 1040 [2007])." The Astrophysical Journal, 673 1249–1249. 2008
- Menten, Karl M., Gsten, R., Leurini, S., Thorwirth, S., Henkel, C., Klein, B., Carilli, Christopher L., and Reid, Mark J. 2008. "Submillimeter water and ammonia absorption by the peculiar z ˜ 0.89 interstellar medium in the gravitational lens of the PKS 1830-211 system." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 492 725–730. 2008
- Bartkiewicz, A., Brunthaler, A., Szymczak, M., van Langevelde, H. J., and Reid, Mark J. 2008. "The nature of the methanol maser ring G23.657-00.127. I. The distance through trigonometric parallax measurements." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 490 787–792. 2008
- Humphreys, E. M. L., Reid, Mark J., Greenhill, L. J., Moran, James M., and Argon, A. L. 2008. "Toward a New Geometric Distance to the Active Galaxy NGC 4258. II. Centripetal Accelerations and Investigation of Spiral Structure." The Astrophysical Journal, 672 800–816. 2008
- Reid, Mark J. and Menten, Karl M. 2007. "Imaging the Radio Photospheres of Mira Variables." The Astrophysical Journal, 671 2068–2073. 2007
- Fish, Vincent L. and Reid, Mark J. 2007. "Proper Motions of OH Masers and Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-forming Regions." The Astrophysical Journal, 670 1159–1172. 2007
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