Weintroub, Jonathan
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffInstrumentation for astronomy signal processing; Submillimeter Array (SMA) Correlator; Astronomical masers; Submillimeter VLBI on super massive black holes, in the Galactic Center and elsewhere.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.Sc., University of Cape Town
- M.Sc., University of Cape Town
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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- Principe, G., Algaba, J. C., Aviano, E., Cheong, W. Y., Hada, K., Haggard, D., Hahn, A., Jorstad, S. G., Kravchenko, E. V., Kovalev, Y., Lee, S. S., Lisakov, M., Markoff, S., Marscher, A. P., Sasada, M., Voitsik, P., Akiyama, Kazunori, Albentosa-Ruíz, Ezequiel, Alberdi, Antxon, Alef, Walter, Amanaganti, Rohan Ganesh, Anantua, Richard, Antonopoulou, Eleni, Asada, Keiichi, Azulay, Rebecca et al. 2026. "Broadband multiwavelength properties of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 712 A224. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202659551. 2026
- Ashtari Esfahani, A., Asner, D. M., Böser, S., Buzinsky, N., Cervantes, R., Claessens, C., de Viveiros, L., Doe, P. J., Fernandes, J. L., Fertl, M., Formaggio, J. A., Furse, D., Gladstone, L., Guigue, M., Hartse, J., Heeger, K. M., Huyan, X., Jones, A. M., Kofron, J. A., LaRoque, B. H., Lindman, A., Machado, E., McBride, E. L., Mohanmurthy, P., Mohiuddin, R. et al. 2026. "Project 8 apparatus for cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy with 83mKr and tritium." Journal of Instrumentation, 21 P02026. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/21/02/P02026. 2026
- Ashtari Esfahani, A., Böser, S., Buzinsky, N., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Claessens, C., de Viveiros, L., Doe, P. J., Fertl, M., Formaggio, J. A., Gaison, J. K., Gladstone, L., Guigue, M., Hartse, J., Heeger, K. M., Huyan, X., Jones, A. M., Kazkaz, K., LaRoque, B. H., Li, M., Lindman, A., Machado, E., Marsteller, A., Matthé, C., Mohiuddin, R., Monreal, B. et al. 2024. "Cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy of electrons from tritium β decay and Kr83m internal conversion." Physical Review C, 109 035503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.035503. 2024
- Yu, Wei, Lu, Ru-Sen, Shen, Zhi-Qiang, and Weintroub, Jonathan. 2023. "Evaluation of a Candidate Site in the Tibetan Plateau towards the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope." Galaxies, 11 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11010007. 2023
- Yu, Wei, Romein, John W., Dursi, L. Jonathan, Lu, Ru-Sen, Pope, Adrian, Callanan, Gareth, Pesce, Dominic W., Blackburn, Lindy, Merry, Bruce, Srinivasan, Ranjani, Kim, Jongsoo, and Weintroub, Jonathan. 2023. "Prospects of GPU Tensor Core Correlation for the SMA and the ngEHT." Galaxies, 11 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11010013. 2023
- Ashtari Esfahani, A., Böser, S., Buzinsky, N., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Claessens, C., de Viveiros, L., Doe, P. J., Fertl, M., Formaggio, J. A., Gaison, J. K., Gladstone, L., Grando, M., Guigue, M., Hartse, J., Heeger, K. M., Huyan, X., Johnston, J., Jones, A. M., Kazkaz, K., LaRoque, B. H., Li, M., Lindman, A., Machado, E., Marsteller, A., Matthé, C. et al. 2023. "Tritium Beta Spectrum Measurement and Neutrino Mass Limit from Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy." Physical Review Letters, 131 102502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.102502. 2023
- Broderick, Avery E., Pesce, Dominic W., Gold, Roman, Tiede, Paul, Pu, Hung-Yi, Anantua, Richard, Britzen, Silke, Ceccobello, Chiara, Chatterjee, Koushik, Chen, Yongjun, Conroy, Nicholas S., Crew, Geoffrey B., Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro, Cui, Yuzhu, Doeleman, Sheperd S., Emami, Razieh, Farah, Joseph, Fromm, Christian M., Galison, Peter, Georgiev, Boris, Ho, Luis C., James, David J., Jeter, Britton, Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra, Koay, Jun Yi et al. 2022. "The Photon Ring in M87*." The Astrophysical Journal, 935 61. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c1d. 2022
- Raymond, Alexander W., Palumbo, Daniel, Paine, Scott N., Blackburn, Lindy, Córdova Rosado, Rodrigo, Doeleman, Sheperd S., Farah, Joseph R., Johnson, Michael D., Roelofs, Freek, Tilanus, Remo P. J., and Weintroub, Jonathan. 2021. "Evaluation of New Submillimeter VLBI Sites for the Event Horizon Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 253 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abc3c3. 2021
- Gill, Ajay, Blackburn, Lindy, Roshanineshat, Arash, Chan, Chi-kwan, Doeleman, Sheperd S., Johnson, Michael D., Raymond, Alexander W., and Weintroub, Jonathan. 2019. "Prospects for Wideband VLBI Correlation in the Cloud." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 131 124501. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab32a8. 2019
- Lu, Ru-Sen, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Roy, Alan L., Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Johnson, Michael D., Akiyama, Kazunori, Psaltis, Dimitrios, Alef, Walter, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Bertarini, Alessandra, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Broderick, Avery E., Cappallo, Roger, Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Jason, Dexter, Matt, Falcke, Heino, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Greer, Christopher H. et al. 2018. "Detection of Intrinsic Source Structure at ~3 Schwarzschild Radii with Millimeter-VLBI Observations of SAGITTARIUS A*." The Astrophysical Journal, 859 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabe2e. 2018
- Kim, Junhan, Marrone, Daniel P., Roy, Alan L., Wagner, Jan, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Blanchard, Jay, Carlstrom, John E., Chen, Ming-Tang, Crawford, Thomas M., Crew, Geoffrey B., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Fish, Vincent L., Greer, Christopher H., Gurwell, Mark A., Henning, Jason W., Inoue, Makoto, Keisler, Ryan, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Lu, Ru-Sen, Muders, Dirk, Müller, Cornelia, Nguyen, Chi H., Ros, Eduardo, SooHoo, Jason et al. 2018. "The 1.4 mm Core of Centaurus A: First VLBI Results with the South Pole Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal, 861 129. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac7c6. 2018
- Ashtari Esfahani, Ali, Asner, David M., Böser, Sebastian, Cervantes, Raphael, Claessens, Christine, de Viveiros, Luiz, Doe, Peter J., Doeleman, Shepard, Fernandes, Justin L., Fertl, Martin, Finn, Erin C., Formaggio, Joseph A., Furse, Daniel, Guigue, Mathieu, Heeger, Karsten M., Jones, A. Mark, Kazkaz, Kareem, Kofron, Jared A., Lamb, Callum, LaRoque, Benjamin H., Machado, Eric, McBride, Elizabeth L., Miller, Michael L., Monreal, Benjamin, Mohanmurthy, Prajwal et al. 2017. "Determining the neutrino mass with cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy-Project 8." Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics, 44 054004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/aa5b4f. 2017
- Fish, Vincent L., Johnson, Michael D., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Broderick, Avery E., Psaltis, Dimitrios, Lu, Ru-Sen, Akiyama, Kazunori, Alef, Walter, Algaba, Juan Carlos, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Bertarini, Alessandra, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Cappallo, Roger, Chael, Andrew A., Chamberlin, Richard, Chan, Chi-kwan, Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Jason, Dexter, Matt, Dzib, Sergio A., Falcke, Heino et al. 2016. "Persistent Asymmetric Structure of Sagittarius A* on Event Horizon Scales." The Astrophysical Journal, 820 90. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/90. 2016
- Akiyama, Kazunori, Lu, Ru-Sen, Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Broderick, Avery E., Dexter, Jason, Hada, Kazuhiro, Kino, Motoki, Nagai, Hiroshi, Honma, Mareki, Johnson, Michael D., Algaba, Juan C., Asada, Keiichi, Brinkerink, Christiaan, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Cappallo, Roger, Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Matt, Dzib, Sergio A., Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark, Ho, Paul T. P., Inoue, Makoto et al. 2015. "230 GHz VLBI Observations of M87: Event-horizon-scale Structure during an Enhanced Very-high- energy -Ray State in 2012." The Astrophysical Journal, 807 150. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/807/2/150. 2015
- Wagner, J., Roy, A. L., Krichbaum, T. P., Alef, W., Bansod, A., Bertarini, A., Güsten, R., Graham, D., Hodgson, J., Märtens, R., Menten, K., Muders, D., Rottmann, H., Tuccari, G., Weiß, A., Wieching, G., Wunderlich, M., Zensus, J. A., Araneda, J. P., Arriagada, O., Cantzler, M., Duran, C., Montenegro-Montes, F. M., Olivares, R., Caro, P. et al. 2015. "First 230 GHz VLBI fringes on 3C 279 using the APEX Telescope." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 581 A32. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423613. 2015
- Vertatschitsch, Laura, Primiani, Rurik, Young, André, Weintroub, Jonathan, Crew, Geoffrey B., McWhirter, Stephen R., Beaudoin, Christopher, Doeleman, Sheperd, and Blackburn, Lindy. 2015. "R2DBE: A Wideband Digital Backend for the Event Horizon Telescope." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 127 1226–1239. https://doi.org/10.1086/684513. 2015
- Johnson, Michael D., Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Marrone, Daniel P., Plambeck, Richard L., Wardle, John F. C., Akiyama, Kazunori, Asada, Keiichi, Beaudoin, Christopher, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Broderick, Avery E., Cappallo, Roger, Chael, Andrew A., Crew, Geoffrey B., Dexter, Jason, Dexter, Matt, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gold, Roman, Gurwell, Mark A., Ho, Paul T. P., Honma, Mareki et al. 2015. "Resolved magnetic-field structure and variability near the event horizon of Sagittarius A*." Science, 350 1242–1245. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7087. 2015
- Lu, Ru-Sen, Fish, Vincent L., Akiyama, Kazunori, Doeleman, Sheperd S., Algaba, Juan C., Bower, Geoffrey C., Brinkerink, Christiaan, Chamberlin, Richard, Crew, Geoffrey, Cappallo, Roger J., Dexter, Matt, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark A., Ho, Paul T. P., Honma, Mareki, Inoue, Makoto, Jorstad, Svetlana G., Krichbaum, Thomas P., Loinard, Laurent, MacMahon, David, Marrone, Daniel P., Marscher, Alan P., Moran, James M., Plambeck, Richard et al. 2013. "Fine-scale Structure of the Quasar 3C 279 Measured with 1.3 mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry." The Astrophysical Journal, 772 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/772/1/13. 2013
- Doeleman, Sheperd S., Fish, Vincent L., Schenck, David E., Beaudoin, Christopher, Blundell, Ray, Bower, Geoffrey C., Broderick, Avery E., Chamberlin, Richard, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark A., Ho, Paul T. P., Honma, Mareki, Inoue, Makoto, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Lamb, James, Loeb, Abraham, Lonsdale, Colin, Marrone, Daniel P., Moran, James M., Oyama, Tomoaki, Plambeck, Richard, Primiani, Rurik A., Rogers, Alan E. E., Smythe, Daniel L. et al. 2012. "Jet-Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in M87." Science, 338 355. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1224768. 2012
- Fish, Vincent L., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Beaudoin, Christopher, Blundell, Raymond, Bolin, David E., Bower, Geoffrey C., Chamberlin, Richard, Freund, Robert, Friberg, Per, Gurwell, Mark A., Honma, Mareki, Inoue, Makoto, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Lamb, James, Marrone, Daniel P., Moran, James M., Oyama, Tomoaki, Plambeck, Richard, Primiani, Rurik, Rogers, Alan E. E., Smythe, Daniel L., SooHoo, Jason, Strittmatter, Peter, Tilanus, Remo P. J., Titus, Michael et al. 2011. "1.3 mm Wavelength VLBI of Sagittarius A*: Detection of Time-variable Emission on Event Horizon Scales." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 727, (2) L36. 2011
- Weintroub, Jonathan. 2008. "A submillimeter VLBI array." Journal of Physics Conference Series, 131 2047. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/131/1/012047. 2008
- Doeleman, Sheperd S., Weintroub, Jonathan, Rogers, Alan E. E., Plambeck, Richard, Freund, Robert, Tilanus, Remo P. J., Friberg, Per, Ziurys, Lucy M., Moran, James M., Corey, Brian, Young, Ken H., Smythe, Daniel L., Titus, Michael, Marrone, Daniel P., Cappallo, Roger J., Bock, Douglas C. -J, Bower, Geoffrey C., Chamberlin, Richard, Davis, Gary R., Krichbaum, Thomas P., Lamb, James, Maness, Holly, Niell, Arthur E., Roy, Alan, Strittmatter, Peter et al. 2008. "Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre." Nature, 455 78–80. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07245. 2008
- Weintroub, Jonathan, Moran, James M., Wilner, David J., Young, Ken, Rao, Ramprasad, and Shinnaga, Hiroko. 2008. "Submillimeter Array Imaging of the Maser Emission from the H30α Radio Recombination Line in MWC 349A." The Astrophysical Journal, 677 1140–1150. https://doi.org/10.1086/529132. 2008
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- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department