Wilkes, Belinda
Dr.
X-ray and multifrequency studies of quasi-stellar objects; Multi-wavelength surveys (ChaMP,SWIRE)
Positions
- Director, NASA's Chandra X-ray Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2014 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.Sc., St. Andrews University
- Ph.D., Cambridge University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Azadi, Mojegan, Wilkes, Belinda, Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna, McDowell, Jonathan, Siebenmorgen, Ralf, Ashby, Matthew, Birkinshaw, Mark, Worrall, Diana, Abrams, Natasha, Barthel, Peter, Fazio, Giovanni G., Haas, Martin, Hyman, Sóley, Martínez-Galarza, Rafael, and Meyer, Eileen T. 2023. "Disentangling the AGN and Star formation Contributions to the Radio-X-Ray Emission of Radio-loud Quasars at 1 < Z < 2." The Astrophysical Journal, 945 145. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbe9c. 2023
- Homan, D., Lawrence, A., Ward, M., Bruce, A., Landt, H., MacLeod, C., Elvis, M., Wilkes, B., Huchra, J. P., and Peterson, B. M. 2023. "The long-term broad-line responsivity in MKN 110." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519 1745–1763. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3571. 2023
- Wilkes, Belinda J., Tucker, Wallace, Schartel, Norbert, and Santos-Lleo, Maria. 2022. "X-ray astronomy comes of age." Nature, 606 261–271. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04481-y. 2022
- Jimenez-Gallardo, A., Massaro, F., Paggi, A., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Prieto, M. A., Peña-Herazo, H. A., Berta, V., Ricci, F., Stuardi, C., Wilkes, Belinda J., O'Dea, C. P., Baum, S. A., Kraft, Ralph P., Forman, William R., Jones-Forman, Christine, Mingo, B., Liuzzo, E., Balmaverde, B., Capetti, A., Missaglia, V., Hardcastle, M. J., Baldi, R. D., and Morabito, L. K. 2021. "Extended X-Ray Emission around FR II Radio Galaxies: Hot Spots, Lobes, and Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 252 31. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abcecd. 2021
- Paggi, A., Massaro, F., Peña-Herazo, H. A., Missaglia, V., Ricci, F., Stuardi, C., Kraft, R. P., Tremblay, G. R., Baum, S. A., and Wilkes, B. J. 2021. "Peering into the extended X-ray emission on megaparsec scale in 3C 187." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 647 A79. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039813. 2021
- Jimenez-Gallardo, A., Massaro, F., Prieto, M. A., Missaglia, V., Stuardi, C., Paggi, A., Ricci, F., Kraft, Ralph P., Liuzzo, E., Tremblay, Grant R., Baum, S. A., O'Dea, C. P., Wilkes, Belinda J., Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna, Forman, William R., and Harris, Dan E. 2020. "Completing the 3CR Chandra Snapshot Survey: Extragalactic Radio Sources at High Redshift." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 250 7. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aba5a0. 2020
- Patil, Pallavi, Nyland, Kristina, Whittle, Mark, Lonsdale, Carol, Lacy, Mark, Lonsdale, Colin, Mukherjee, Dipanjan, Trapp, A. C., Kimball, Amy E., Lanz, Lauranne, Wilkes, Belinda J., Blain, Andrew, Harwood, Jeremy J., Efstathiou, Andreas, and Vlahakis, Catherine. 2020. "High-resolution VLA Imaging of Obscured Quasars: Young Radio Jets Caught in a Dense ISM." The Astrophysical Journal, 896 18. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9011. 2020
- Barthel, P. D., Versteeg, M. J. F., Podigachoski, P., Haas, M., Wilkes, B. J., de Breuck, C., and Djorgovski, S. G. 2018. "ALMA Resolves the Stellar Birth Explosion in Distant Quasar 3C298." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 866 L3. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aae3e2. 2018
- Dai, Y. Sophia, Wilkes, Belinda J., Bergeron, Jacqueline, Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna, Omont, Alain, Atanas, Adam, and Teplitz, Harry I. 2018. "Is there a relationship between AGN and star formationin IR-bright AGNs?" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478 4238–4254. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1341. 2018
- Ricci, Federica, Lovisari, Lorenzo, Kraft, R. P., Massaro, F., Paggi, A., Liuzzo, E., Tremblay, Grant R., Forman, William R., Baum, S., O'Dea, C., and Wilkes, Belinda J. 2018. "Stormy Weather in 3C 196.1: Nuclear Outbursts and Merger Events Shape the Environment of the Hybrid Radio Galaxy 3C 196.1." The Astrophysical Journal, 867 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae487. 2018
- Massaro, F., Missaglia, V., Stuardi, C., Harris, D. E., Kraft, R. P., Paggi, A., Liuzzo, E., Tremblay, Grant R., Baum, S. A., O'Dea, C. P., Wilkes, B. J., Kuraszkiewicz, J., and Forman, W. R. 2018. "The 3CR Chandra Snapshot Survey: Extragalactic Radio Sources with 0.5 < z < 1.0." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 234 7. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa8e9d. 2018
- Stuardi, C., Missaglia, V., Massaro, F., Ricci, F., Liuzzo, E., Paggi, A., Kraft, R. P., Tremblay, Grant R., Baum, S. A., O'Dea, C. P., Wilkes, B. J., Kuraszkiewicz, J., Forman, W. R., and Harris, D. E. 2018. "The 3CR Chandra Snapshot Survey: Extragalactic Radio Sources with Redshifts between 1 and 1.5." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 235 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aaafcf. 2018
- Wilkes, B. J. 2017. "Chandra and XMM ‑Newton: Synergies now and in the future." Astronomische Nachrichten, 338 140–145. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201713321. 2017
- Trichas, Markos, Green, Paul J., Silverman, John D., Aldcroft, Tom, Barkhouse, Wayne, Cameron, Robert A., Constantin, Anca, Ellison, Sara L., Foltz, Craig, Haggard, Daryl, Jannuzi, Buell T., Kim, Dong-Woo, Marshall, Herman L., Mossman, Amy, Pérez, Laura M., Romero-Colmenero, Encarni, Ruiz, Angel, Smith, Malcolm G., Smith, Paul S., Torres, Guillermo, Wik, Daniel R., Wilkes, Belinda J., and Wolfgang, Angie. 2017. "Erratum: "The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project: Optical Spectroscopy and the Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions of X-ray-selected AGNs" (2012, ApJS, 200, 17)." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 231 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/231/2/23. 2017
- Ghaffari, Z., Westhues, Ch, Haas, M., Chini, R., Willner, S. P., Ashby, M. L. N., and Wilkes, B. J. 2017. "Galaxy overdensities around 3C radio galaxies and quasars at 1 < z < 2.5 revealed by Spitzer 3.6/4.5 µm and Pan‑ STARRS." Astronomische Nachrichten, 338 823–840. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201713389. 2017
- Barthel, Peter, Podigachoski, Pece, Wilkes, Belinda, and Haas, Martin. 2017. "Starburst-driven Superwinds in Quasar Host Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 843 L16. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa7631. 2017
- Westhues, Christian, Haas, Martin, Barthel, Peter, Wilkes, Belinda J., Willner, Steven P., Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna, Podigachoski, Pece, Leipski, Christian, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Siebenmorgen, Ralf, and Chini, Rolf. 2016. "Star Formation in 3CR Radio Galaxies and Quasars at z < 1." The Astronomical Journal, 151 120. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/5/120. 2016
- Lonsdale, Carol J., Lacy, M., Kimball, A. E., Blain, A., Whittle, M., Wilkes, B., Stern, D., Condon, J., Kim, M., Assef, R. J., Tsai, C. -W, Efstathiou, A., Jones, S., Eisenhardt, P., Bridge, C., Wu, J., Lonsdale, Colin J., Jones, K., Jarrett, T., and Smith, R. 2015. "Radio Jet Feedback and Star Formation in Heavily Obscured, Hyperluminous Quasars at Redshifts ˜ 0.5-3. I. ALMA Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 813 45. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/813/1/45. 2015
- Podigachoski, P., Barthel, P. D., Haas, M., Leipski, C., Wilkes, Belinda J., Kuraszkiewicz, J., Westhues, C., Willner, Steven P., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Chini, R., Clements, D. L., Fazio, Giovanni G., Labiano, A., Lawrence, C., Meisenheimer, K., Peletier, R. F., Siebenmorgen, R., and Verdoes Kleijn, G. 2015. "Star formation in z > 1 3CR host galaxies as seen by Herschel." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 575 A80. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425137. 2015
- Massaro, Francesco, Harris, D. E., Liuzzo, E., Orienti, M., Paladino, R., Paggi, A., Tremblay, Grant R., Wilkes, B. J., Kuraszkiewicz, J., Baum, S. A., and O'Dea, C. P. 2015. "The Chandra Survey of Extragalactic Sources in the 3CR Catalog: X-ray Emission from Nuclei, Jets, and Hotspots in the Chandra Archival Observations." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 220 5. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/220/1/5. 2015
- Podigachoski, Pece, Barthel, Peter, Haas, Martin, Leipski, Christian, and Wilkes, Belinda J. 2015. "The Unification of Powerful Quasars and Radio Galaxies and Their Relation to Other Massive Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 806 L11. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/806/1/L11. 2015
- Haas, Martin, Leipski, Christian, Barthel, Peter, Wilkes, Belinda J., Vegetti, Simona, Bussmann, R. Shane, Willner, Steven P., Westhues, Christian, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Chini, Rolf, Clements, David L., Fassnacht, Christopher D., Horesh, Assaf, Klaas, Ulrich, Koopmans, Léon V. E., Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna, Lagattuta, David J., Meisenheimer, Klaus, Stern, Daniel, and Wylezalek, Dominika. 2014. "3C 220.3: A Radio Galaxy Lensing a Submillimeter Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal, 790 46. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/790/1/46. 2014
- Tananbaum, Harvey, Weisskopf, M. C., Tucker, Wallace H., Wilkes, Belinda J., and Edmonds, P. 2014. "Highlights and discoveries from the Chandra X-ray Observatory." Reports on Progress in Physics, 77 6902. https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/77/6/066902. 2014
- Dai, Y. Sophia, Elvis, Martin, Bergeron, Jacqueline, Fazio, Giovanni G., Huang, Jia-Sheng, Wilkes, Belinda J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Omont, Alain, and Papovich, Casey. 2014. "Mid-infrared-selected Quasars. I. Virial Black Hole Mass and Eddington Ratios." The Astrophysical Journal, 791 113. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/113. 2014
- Wilkes, Belinda J., Kuraszkiewicz, Joanna, Haas, Martin, Barthel, Peter, Leipski, Christian, Willner, Steven P., Worrall, D. M., Birkinshaw, Mark, Antonucci, Robert, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Chini, Rolf, Fazio, Giovanni G., Lawrence, Charles, Ogle, Patrick, and Schulz, Bernhard. 2013. "Revealing the Heavily Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus Population of High-redshift 3CRR Sources with Chandra X-Ray Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 773 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/773/1/15. 2013
- Wilkes, Belinda J., Lal, Dharam V., Worrall, D. M., Birkinshaw, Mark, Haas, Martin, Willner, Steven P., Antonucci, Robert, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Avara, Mark, Barthel, Peter, Chini, Rolf, Fazio, Giovanni G., Hardcastle, Martin J., Lawrence, Charles, Leipski, Christian, Ogle, Patrick, and Schulz, Bernhard. 2012. "Chandra X-Ray Observations of the Redshift 1.53 Radio-loud Quasar 3C 270.1." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/84. 2012
- Barthel, Peter, Haas, Martin, Leipski, Christian, and Wilkes, Belinda J. 2012. "Extreme Host Galaxy Growth in Powerful Early-epoch Radio Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 757 L26. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/757/2/L26. 2012
- Trichas, Markos, Green, Paul J., Silverman, John D., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Barkhouse, Wayne, Cameron, Robert A., Constantin, Anca, Ellison, Sara L., Foltz, Craig, Haggard, Daryl, Jannuzi, Buell T., Kim, Dong-Woo, Marshall, Herman L., Mossman, Amy, Pérez, Laura M., Romero-Colmenero, Encarni, Ruiz, Angel, Smith, Malcolm G., Smith, Paul S., Torres, Guillermo, Wik, Daniel R., Wilkes, Belinda J., and Wolfgang, Angie. 2012. "The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project: Optical Spectroscopy and the Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions of X-Ray-selected AGNs." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 200 17. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/200/2/17. 2012
- Leipski, C., Haas, M., Willner, Steven P., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Wilkes, Belinda J., Fazio, Giovanni G., Antonucci, R., Barthel, P., Chini, R., Siebenmorgen, R., Ogle, P., and Heymann, F. 2010. "Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of High-redshift 3CRR Sources." The Astrophysical Journal, 717 766–775. 2010
- Liu, Yuan, Elvis, Martin, McHardy, Ian M., Grupe, Dirk, Wilkes, Belinda J., Reeves, James, Brickhouse, Nancy S., Krongold, Yair, Mathur, Smita, Minezaki, Takeo, Nicastro, Fabrizio, Yoshii, Yuzuru, and Zhang, Shuang Nan. 2010. "Suzaku Monitoring of the Iron K Emission Line in the Type 1 Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 5548." The Astrophysical Journal, 710 1228–1238. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1228. 2010
- Krongold, Y., Elvis, Martin, Andrade-Velazquez, M., Nicastro, F., Mathur, S., Reeves, J. N., Brickhouse, Nancy S., Binette, L., Jimenez-Bailon, E., Grupe, D., Liu, Y., McHardy, I. M., Minezaki, T., Yoshii, Y., and Wilkes, Belinda J. 2010. "Suzaku Monitoring of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548: Warm Absorber Location and Its Implication for Cosmic Feedback." The Astrophysical Journal, 710 360–371. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/710/1/360. 2010
- Green, Paul J., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Richards, G. T., Barkhouse, W. A., Constantin, A., Haggard, D., Karovska, M., Kim, D. -W, Kim, M., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Anderson, S. F., Mossman, A., Kashyap, Vinay L., Myers, A. C., Silverman, J. D., Wilkes, Belinda J., and Tananbaum, Harvey. 2009. "A Full Year's Chandra Exposure on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project." The Astrophysical Journal, 690 644–669. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/644. 2009
- Haas, Martin, Willner, Steven P., Heymann, Frank, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Fazio, Giovanni G., Wilkes, Belinda J., Chini, Rolf, Siebenmorgen, Ralf, and Stern, Daniel. 2009. "Clustering of Red Galaxies Around the z = 1.53 Quasar 3C 270.1." The Astrophysical Journal, 695 724–731. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/695/1/724. 2009
- Clements, David L., Petitpas, Glen R., Farrah, D., Hatziminaoglou, E., Babbedge, T., Rowan-Robinson, M., Pérez-Fournon, I., Hernán-Caballero, Antonio, Castro-Rodríguez, Nieves, Lonsdale, C., Surace, J., Franceschini, A., Wilkes, Belinda J., and Smith, H. 2009. "Resolved Dust Emission in a Quasar at z = 3.65." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 698 L188–L191. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/698/2/L188. 2009
- Wilkes, Belinda J., Kilgard, Roy, Kim, Dong-Woo, Kim, Minsun, Polletta, Mari, Lonsdale, Carol, Smith, Harding E., Surace, Jason, Owen, Frazer N., Franceschini, A., Siana, Brian, and Shupe, David. 2009. "The SWIRE/Chandra Survey: The X-ray Sources." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 185 433–450. 2009
- Haas, Martin, Willner, Steven P., Heymann, Frank, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Fazio, Giovanni G., Wilkes, Belinda J., Chini, Rolf, and Siebenmorgen, Ralf. 2008. "Near- and Mid-Infrared Photometry of High-Redshift 3CR Sources." The Astrophysical Journal, 688 122–127. 2008
- Wilkes, Belinda J., Pounds, K. A., and Schmidt, G. D. 2008. "XMM-Newton Observations of the Red Type 1.8 Quasar 2M1049 5837: Reflection from Cold and Warm (Ionized) Matter." The Astrophysical Journal, 680 110–118. 2008
Affiliation
Head Of
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Director, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory 2014 -
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department