A&S ACADEMIC PERSONNEL CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME
Michael Sean Brotherton
ADDRESS PHONE
University of Wyoming cell: (307) 399-9524
EDUCATION
1996 Ph. D., Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Thesis title: The Nature of QSO Emission-line Regions
1992 M. S., Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
1990 B. S., Electrical Engineering & Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Years (2008-present) Associate Professor, Astronomy, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming
Years (2002-2008) Assistant Professor, Astronomy, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming
Years (1999-2002) Research Associate, Astronomy, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ
Years (1996-1999) Postdoctoral Fellow, Astronomy, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
SABBATICALS\PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAVE
AY 2008-2009, Universidade Federal do Rio do Grand do Sul (Brazil) & Tianjin Normal University (China), working with Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann on integral field unit (IFU) observations of post-starburst quasars and developing new collaborations. Also spent time in China working with Zhaohui Shang on the spectral energy distributions of quasars. A NASA grant provided financial support.
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION
35 % Teaching, 55% Research, 5% Service, 0% Admin, 5% Advising
Year Semester Course No./Title Cr. Hrs. Enrollment
2013 Fall ASTR 5460 - Cosmology 4 8
2013 Spring PHYS 4860 – Ind. Study 2 1
2012 Fall ASTR 1050 – Survey of Astro 4 44
2012 Fall ASTR 1050 – Survey of Astro 4 59
2012 Fall ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 2
2012 Sum ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 4
2012 Spring ASTR 2310 – General Astro I 4 24
2011 Fall ASTR 5460 – Cosmology 4 6
2011 Fall ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 4
2011 Spring ASTR 1050 – Survey of Astro 4 133
2010 Fall ASTR 1050 – Survey of Astro 4 141
2010 Fall ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 4
2010 Fall ASTR 5860 – Ind. Study 1 1
2010 Sum ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 4
2010 Sum ASTR 5860 – Ind. Study 1 4
2010 Spring ASTR 2310 – General Astro I 4 14
2009 Fall ASTR 5460 – Cosmology 4 12
2009 Fall ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 4
2009 Fall ASTR 5860 – Ind. Study 1 4
2009 Sum ASTR 5860 – Ind. Study 1 4
2009 Spring ASTR 5860 – Ind. Study 1 3
2009 Spring PHYS 5860 – Ind. Study 1 1
2008 Fall PHYS 5860 – Ind. Study 1 1
2008 Sum ASTR 5980 – Diss. Research 1 3
2008 Sum PHYS 5980 – Diss. Research 1 1
2008 Sum PHYS 5860 – Ind. Study 1 1
2008 Spring PHYS 4870 – Special Topics 3 10
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
In Preparation:
Brotherton, Michael S., Runnoe, J., Shang, Z, and DiPompeo, M. “Bias in CIV-based quasar black hole mass scaling relationships from reverberation mapped samples ,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, refereed
Cales, Sabrina, and Brotherton, Michael S., “Post-Starburst Quasars: Bridging the Gap Between Post-Starburst Galaxies and Quasars,” Astrophysical Journal, refereed
Under Review:
Runnoe, J., Brotherton, M., Shang, Z, DiPompeo, M. “The behavior of quasar C IV emission-line properties with orientation,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, refereed
Sanmartim, D., Storchi-Bergmann, T., & Brotherton, M., “2D stellar population and gas kinematics of the inner kiloparsec of the post-starburst quasar PSQ J0330-0532,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, refereed
PUBLISHED WORKS
Refereed Journal Articles:
Berrington, R., Brotherton, M., Gallagher, S. C., Ganguly, R. Shang, Z., DiPompeo, M, Chatterjee, R., Lacy., M., Gregg, M. D., and Laurent-Muehleisen, 2013, “The X-ray Spectrum and Spectral Energy Distribution of FIRST J155633.8+351758: A LoBAL Quasar with a Possible Beamed Polar Outflow,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press
Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Zhaohui, and DiPompeo, M. A.,
2013, "Rehabilitating C IV-based black hole mass estimates in quasars," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434, 848-861 Runnoe, Jessie C., Ganguly, R., Brotherton, M. S., and DiPompeo, M. A., 2013, "Rest-frame optical properties of luminous, radio-selected broad absorption line quasars," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 1778-1788 Riffel, R., Rodriguez-Ardila, A., Aleman, I., Brotherton, M. S., Pastoriza, M. G., Bonatto, C., and Dors, O. L., 2013, "Erratum: Molecular hydrogen and [Fe II] in active galactic nuclei III: LINERS and star forming galaxies," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432, 3545-3545 Wei, Peng, Shang, Zhaohui, Brotherton, Michael S., Cales, Sabrina L., Hines, Dean C., Dale, Daniel A., Ganguly, Rajib, and Canalizo, Gabriela, 2013, "Mid-infrared Spectral Properties of Post-starburst Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 772, 28- Riffel, R., Rodriguez-Ardila, A., Aleman, I., Brotherton, M. S., Pastoriza, M. G., Bonatto, C., and Dors, O. L., 2013, "Molecular hydrogen and [Fe II] in active galactic nuclei - III. Low-ionization nuclear emission-line region and star-forming galaxies," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430, 2002-2017 Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Z., Wills, B. J., and DiPompeo, M. A., 2013, "The orientation dependence of quasar single-epoch black hole mass scaling relationships," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429, 135-149 DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., and De Breuck, C., 2013, "The orientation and polarization of broad absorption line quasars," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428, 1565-1578 Sanmartim, David, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, and Brotherton, Michael S., 2013, "2D stellar population and gas kinematics of the inner 1.5 kpc of the post-starburst quasar SDSS J0210-0903," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428, 867-881 DiPompeo, M. A., Runnoe, J. C., Brotherton, M. S., and Myers, A. D., 2013, "An Infrared Excess Identified in Radio-loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 762, 111- Cales, Sabrina L., Brotherton, Michael S., Shang, Zhaohui, Runnoe, Jessie C., DiPompeo, Michael A., Bennert, Vardha Nicola, Canalizo, Gabriela, Hiner, Kyle D., Stoll, R., Ganguly, Rajib, and Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar, 2013, "The Properties of Post-starburst Quasars Based on Optical Spectroscopy," The Astrophysical Journal, 762, 90- Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, Michael S., and Shang, Zhaohui, 2012, "Erratum: Updating quasar bolometric luminosity corrections," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427, 1800-1800 DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., Cales, S. L., and Runnoe, J. C., 2012, "The rest-frame ultraviolet properties of radio-loud broad absorption line quasars," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427, 1135-1152 Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, Michael S., and Shang, Zhaohui, 2012, "Updating quasar bolometric luminosity corrections - II. Infrared bolometric corrections," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 2677-2688 Hiner, Kyle D., Canalizo, Gabriela, Wold, Margrethe, Brotherton, Michael S., and Cales, Sabrina L., 2012, "Black-hole-Bulge Relationship of Post-starburst Quasars at z ~ 0.3," The Astrophysical Journal, 756, 162- Tang, Baitian, Shang, Zhaohui, Gu, Qiusheng, Brotherton, Michael S., and Runnoe, Jessie C., 2012, "The Optical and Ultraviolet Emission-line Properties of Bright Quasars with Detailed Spectral Energy Distributions," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 201, 38- DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., and De Breuck, C., 2012, "The Viewing Angles of Broad Absorption Line versus Unabsorbed Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 752, 6- Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, Michael S., and Shang, Zhaohui, 2012, "Updating quasar bolometric luminosity corrections," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 422, 478-493 DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., De Breuck, C., and Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally, 2011, "A Very Large Array Survey of Radio-selected SDSS Broad Absorption Line Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 743, 71- Cales, S. L., Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Zhaohui, Bennert, Vardha Nicola, Canalizo, G., Stoll, R., Ganguly, R., Vanden Berk, D., Paul, C., and Diamond-Stanic, A., 2011, "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Post-starburst Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 741, 106- Shang, Zhaohui, Brotherton, Michael S., Wills, Beverley J., Wills, D., Cales, Sabrina L., Dale, Daniel A., Green, Richard F., Runnoe, Jessie C., Nemmen, Rodrigo S., Gallagher, Sarah C., Ganguly, Rajib, Hines, Dean C., Kelly, Benjamin J., Kriss, Gerard A., Li, Jun, Tang, Baitian, and Xie, Yanxia, 2011, "The Next Generation Atlas of Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions from Radio to X-Rays," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 196, 2- Brotherton, M. S., De Breuck, C., and Schaefer, J. J., 2011, "Erratum: Spectropolarimetry of PKS 0040-005 and the orientation of broad absorption line quasars," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413, L114-L114 DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., and De Breuck, C., 2011, "Very Large Telescope Spectropolarimetry of Broad Absorption Line QSOs," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 193, 9- Rogerson, Jesse A., Hall, Patrick B., Snedden, Stephanie A., Brotherton, Michael S., and Anderson, Scott F., 2011, "Chandra X-ray observations of two unusual BAL quasars," New Astronomy, 16, 128-137 Nemmen, Rodrigo S. and Brotherton, Michael S., 2010, "Quasar bolometric corrections: theoretical considerations," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 408, 1598-1605 DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., Becker, R. H., Tran, H. D., Gregg, M. D., White, R. L., and Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., 2010, "Spectropolarimetry of Radio-selected Broad Absorption Line Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 189, 83-103 Georgakakis, A., Clements, D. L., Bendo, G., Rowan-Robinson, M., Nandra, K., and Brotherton, M. S., 2009, "Are red 2MASS QSOs young?," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 394, 533-546 Ganguly, Rajib and Brotherton, Michael S., 2008, "On the Fraction of Quasars with Outflows," The Astrophysical Journal, 672, 102-107 Ganguly, Rajib, Brotherton, Michael S., Cales, Sabrina, Scoggins, Brian, Shang, Zhaohui, and Vestergaard, Marianne, 2007, "Outflows and the Physical Properties of Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 665, 990-1003 Shang, Zhaohui, Wills, Beverley J., Wills, D., and Brotherton, Michael S., 2007, "Spectral Properties from Ly alpha; to H alpha; for an Essentially Complete Sample of Quasars. I. Data," The Astronomical Journal, 134, 294-393 Wold, M., Brotherton, M. S., and Shang, Zhaohui, 2007, "The dependence of quasar variability on black hole mass," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 375, 989-999 Ganguly, Rajib, Brotherton, Michael S., Arav, Nahum, Heap, Sara R., Wisotzki, Lutz, Aldcroft, Thomas L., Alloin, Danielle, Behar, Ehud, Canalizo, Gabriela, Crenshaw, D. Michael, de Kool, Martijn, Chambers, Kenneth, Cecil, Gerald, Chatzichristou, Eleni, Everett, John, Gabel, Jack, Gaskell, C. Martin, Galliano, Emmanuel, Green, Richard F., Hall, Patrick B., Hines, Dean C., Junkkarinen, Vesa T., Kaastra, Jelle S., Kaiser, Mary Elizabeth, Kazanas, Demosthenes, Konigl, Arieh, Korista, Kirk T., Kriss, Gerard A., Laor, Ari, Leighly, Karen M., Mathur, Smita, Ogle, Patrick, Proga, Daniel, Sabra, Bassem, Sivron, Ran, Snedden, Stephanie, Telfer, Randal, and Vestergaard, Marianne, 2007, "Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of 14 Low-Redshift Quasars," The Astronomical Journal, 133, 479-486 Canalizo, Gabriela, Stockton, Alan, Brotherton, Michael S., and Lacy, Mark, 2006, "Star formation in QSO host galaxies," New Astronomy Reviews, 50, 650-656 Brotherton, M. S., De Breuck, C., and Schaefer, J. J., 2006, "Spectropolarimetry of PKS 0040-005 and the orientation of broad absorption line quasars," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 372, L58-L62 Schaefer, Justin J., Brotherton, Michael S., Shang, Zhaohui, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., Lacy, Mark, and White, Richard L., 2006, "XMM-Newton Detection of the Rare Fanaroff-Riley Type II Broad Absorption Line Quasar FIRST J101614.3+520916," The Astronomical Journal, 132, 1464-1467 Georgantopoulos, I., Nandra, K., Brotherton, M., Georgakakis, A., Papadakis, I. E., and O'Neill, P., 2006, "XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of SHEEP sources," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 367, 1727-1734 Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Lee, Julia C., Quijano, Jessica Kim, Brotherton, Michael, Canizares, Claude R., Green, Richard F., Hutchings, John, Kaiser, Mary Elizabeth, Marshall, Herman, Oegerle, William, Ogle, Patrick, and Zheng, Wei, 2005, "Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of NGC 7469: Simultaneous Chandra, FUSE, and STIS Observations," The Astrophysical Journal, 634, 193-209 Gallagher, S. C., Schmidt, Gary D., Smith, Paul S., Brandt, W. N., Chartas, G., Hylton, Shavonne, Hines, D. C., and Brotherton, M. S., 2005, "Variation in the Scattering Shroud Surrounding Markarian 231," The Astrophysical Journal, 633, 71-85 Brotherton, M. S., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Becker, R. H., Gregg, Michael D., Telis, Gisela, White, R. L., and Shang, Zhaohui, 2005, "Chandra X-Ray Observations of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars," The Astronomical Journal, 130, 2006-2011 Shang, Zhaohui, Brotherton, Michael S., Green, Richard F., Kriss, Gerard A., Scott, Jennifer, Quijano, Jessica Kim, Blaes, Omer, Hubeny, Ivan, Hutchings, John, Kaiser, Mary Elizabeth, Koratkar, Anuradha, Oegerle, William, and Zheng, Wei, 2005, "Quasars and the Big Blue Bump," The Astrophysical Journal, 619, 41-59 Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Brotherton, Michael, Green, Richard F., Hutchings, John, Shull, J. Michael, and Zheng, Wei, 2004, "A Composite Extreme-Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from FUSE," The Astrophysical Journal, 615, 135-149 Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Lee, Julia C., Arav, Nahum, Ogle, Patrick, Roraback, Kenneth, Weaver, Kimberly, Alexander, Tal, Brotherton, Michael, Green, Richard F., Hutchings, John, Kaiser, Mary Elizabeth, Marshall, Herman, Oegerle, William, and Zheng, Wei, 2004, "Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of Markarian 279: Simultaneous Chandra, FUSE, and STIS Observations," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 152, 1-27 Nandra, K., Georgantopoulos, I., Brotherton, M., and Papadakis, I. E., 2004, "X-ray and optical counterparts of hard X-ray selected sources from the SHEEP survey: first results," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 347, L41-L46 Shields, Gregory A., Gebhardt, Karl, Salviander, Sarah, Wills, Beverley J., Xie, Bingrong, Brotherton, Michael S., Yuan, Juntao, and Dietrich, Matthias, 2003, "The Black Hole-Bulge Relationship in Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 583, 124-133 Georgantopoulos, I., Nandra, K., Brotherton, M., Ptak, A., Zezas, A., and Papadakis, I., 2003, "The SHEEP survey: Observing the hardest of the hard with Chandra," Astronomische Nachrichten, 324, 32-35 Brotherton, Michael S., Croom, Scott M., De Breuck, Carlos, Becker, Robert H., and Gregg, Michael D., 2002, "The Twice-Overlooked, Second Fanaroff-Riley II Broad Absorption Line Quasar LBQS 1138-0126," The Astronomical Journal, 124, 2575-2580 Brotherton, Michael S., Ly, Chun, Wills, Beverley J., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., van Breugel, Wil, and Antonucci, R. R. J., 2002, "Multiband VLA Observations of the Faint Radio Core of 3CR 68.1," The Astronomical Journal, 124, 1943-1947 Yuan, Q., Green, R. F., Brotherton, M., Tripp, T. M., Kaiser, M. E., and Kriss, G. A., 2002, "Associated Absorption Lines in the Radio-loud Quasar 3C 351: Far-Ultraviolet Echelle Spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope," The Astrophysical Journal, 575, 687-696 Brotherton, Michael S., Grabelsky, Matthew, Canalizo, Gabriela, van Breugel, Wil, Filippenko, Alexei V., Croom, Scott, Boyle, Brian, and Shanks, Tom, 2002, "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Poststarburst Quasar UN J1025-0040: Evidence for Recent Star Formation," Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 114, 593-601 Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, W., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Miller, L., and Becker, R. H., 2002, "Erratum: ``Discovery of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars Using Ultraviolet Excess and Deep Radio Selection,'' The Astrophysical Journal, 571, L191-L191 Brotherton, M. S., Green, R. F., Kriss, G. A., Oegerle, W., Kaiser, M. E., Zheng, W., and Hutchings, J. B., 2002, "Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of the Seyfert 1.5 Galaxy NGC 5548 in a Low State," The Astrophysical Journal, 565, 800-807 Gregg, Michael D., Lacy, Mark, White, Richard L., Glikman, Eilat, Helfand, David, Becker, Robert H., and Brotherton, Michael S., 2002, "The Reddest Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 564, 133-142 Zheng, W., Kriss, G. A., Wang, J. X., Brotherton, M., Oegerle, W. R., Blair, W. P., Davidsen, A. F., Green, R. F., Hutchings, J. B., and Kaiser, M. E., 2001, "Ultraviolet Broad Absorption Features and the Spectral Energy Distribution of the Quasar PG 1351+64," The Astrophysical Journal, 562, 152-159 Arav, Nahum, de Kool, Martijn, Korista, Kirk T., Crenshaw, D. Michael, van Breugel, Wil, Brotherton, Michael, Green, Richard F., Pettini, Max, Wills, Bev, de Vries, Wim, Becker, Bob, Brandt, W. N., Green, Paul, Junkkarinen, Vesa T., Koratkar, Anuradha, Laor, Ari, Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., Mathur, Smita, and Murray, Norman, 2001, "HST STIS Observations of PG 0946+301: The Highest Quality UV Spectrum of a BALQSO," The Astrophysical Journal, 561, 118-130 Hutchings, J. B., Kriss, G. A., Green, R. F., Brotherton, M., Kaiser, M. E., Koratkar, A. P., and Zheng, W., 2001, "Evidence for an Accelerating Wind as the Broad-Line Region in NGC 3516," The Astrophysical Journal, 559, 173-180 Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gregg, Michael D., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., Brotherton, Michael S., Impey, Chris D., Chaffee, Frederic H., Richards, Gordon T., Helfand, David J., Lacy, Mark, Courbin, Frederic, and Proctor, Deanne D., 2001, "The FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. III. The South Galactic Cap," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 135, 227-262 Leonard, Douglas C., Filippenko, Alexei V., Ardila, David R., and Brotherton, Michael S., 2001, "Is It Round? Spectropolarimetry of the Type II-p Supernova 1999EM," The Astrophysical Journal, 553, 861-885 Brotherton, M. S., Tran, Hien D., Becker, R. H., Gregg, Michael D., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., and White, R. L., 2001, "Composite Spectra from the FIRST Bright Quasar Survey," The Astrophysical Journal, 546, 775-781 Arav, Nahum, Brotherton, Michael S., Becker, Robert H., Gregg, Michael D., White, Richard L., Price, Trevor, and Hack, Warren, 2001, "The Intrinsic Absorber in QSO 2359-1241: Keck and HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE Observations," The Astrophysical Journal, 546, 140-149 Brotherton, M. S., Arav, Nahum, Becker, R. H., Tran, Hien D., Gregg, Michael D., White, R. L., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., and Hack, Warren, 2001, "QSO 2359-1241: A Bright, Highly Polarized, Radio-moderate, Reddened, Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasar," The Astrophysical Journal, 546, 134-139 Najita, Joan, Dey, Arjun, and Brotherton, Michael, 2000, "Red Quasars and Quasar Evolution: The Case of BAL QSO FIRST J155633.8+351758," The Astronomical Journal, 120, 2859-2867 Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Brotherton, Michael S., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., Lacy, Mark, and White, Richard L., 2000, "Discovery of a Classic FR II Broad Absorption Line Quasar from the FIRST Survey," The Astrophysical Journal, 544, 142-149 Kriss, G. A., Green, R. F., Brotherton, M., Oegerle, W., Sembach, K. R., Davidsen, A. F., Friedman, S. D., Kaiser, M. E., Zheng, W., Woodgate, B., Hutchings, J., Shull, J. M., and York, D. G., 2000, "Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of Intrinsic Absorption in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy Markarian 509," The Astrophysical Journal, 538, L17-L21 Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gregg, Michael D., Brotherton, Michael S., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., and Arav, Nahum, 2000, "Properties of Radio-selected Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the First Bright Quasar Survey," The Astrophysical Journal, 538, 72-82 Gregg, Michael D., Wisotzki, Lutz, Becker, Robert H., Maza, José, Schechter, Paul L., White, Richard L., Brotherton, Michael S., and Winn, Joshua N., 2000, "A Close-Separation Double Quasar Lensed by a Gas-rich Galaxy," The Astronomical Journal, 119, 2535-2539 Mathur, S., Green, P. J., Arav, N., Brotherton, M., Crenshaw, M., deKool, M., Elvis, M., Goodrich, R. W., Hamann, F., Hines, D. C., Kashyap, V., Korista, K., Peterson, B. M., Shields, J. C., Shlosman, I., van Breugel, W., and Voit, M., 2000, "Thomson Thick X-Ray Absorption in a Broad Absorption Line Quasar, PG 0946+301," The Astrophysical Journal, 533, L79-L82 Brinkmann, W., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Voges, W., Siebert, J., Becker, R. H., Brotherton, M. S., White, R. L., and Gregg, M. D., 2000, "Radio and X-ray bright AGN: the ROSAT - FIRST correlation," Astronomy and Astrophysics, 356, 445-462 White, Richard L., Becker, Robert H., Gregg, Michael D., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., Brotherton, Michael S., Impey, Chris D., Petry, Catherine E., Foltz, Craig B., Chaffee, Frederic H., Richards, Gordon T., Oegerle, William R., Helfand, David J., McMahon, Richard G., and Cabanela, Juan E., 2000, "The FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. II. 60 Nights and 1200 Spectra Later," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 126, 133-207 Canalizo, Gabriela, Stockton, Alan, Brotherton, M. S., and van Breugel, Wil, 2000, "A Companion Galaxy to the Poststarburst Quasar UN J1025-0040," The Astronomical Journal, 119, 59-62 Arav, Nahum, Becker, Robert H., Laurent-Muehleisen, Sally A., Gregg, Michael D., White, Richard L., Brotherton, Michael S., and de Kool, Martijn, 1999, "What Determines the Depth of Broad Absorption Lines? Keck HIRES Observations of BALQSO 1603+3002," The Astrophysical Journal, 524, 566-571 Barth, Aaron J., Tran, Hien D., Brotherton, M. S., Filippenko, Alexei V., Ho, Luis C., van Breugel, Wil, Antonucci, Robert, and Goodrich, Robert W., 1999, "Polarized Narrow-Line Emission from the Nucleus of NGC 4258," The Astronomical Journal, 118, 1609-1617 Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, Wil, Stanford, S. A., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Miller, Lance, Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., and Filippenko, Alexei V., 1999, "A Spectacular Poststarburst Quasar," The Astrophysical Journal, 520, L87-L90 Tran, Hien D., Brotherton, M. S., Stanford, S. A., van Breugel, Wil, Dey, Arjun, Stern, Daniel, and Antonucci, Robert, 1999, "A Polarimetric Search for Hidden Quasars in Three Radio-selected Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies," The Astrophysical Journal, 516, 85-96 Wills, Beverley J., Laor, A., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, D., Wilkes, B. J., Ferland, G. J., and Shang, Zhaohui, 1999, "The PG X-Ray QSO Sample: Links between the Ultraviolet-X-Ray Continuum and Emission Lines," The Astrophysical Journal, 515, L53-L56 Brotherton, M. S., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, R. H., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., White, R. L., and Stanford, S. A., 1999, "Discovery of a Radio-loud/Radio-quiet Binary Quasar," The Astrophysical Journal, 514, L61-L64 Brotherton, Michael S., van Breugel, Wil, Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Miller, Lance, and Becker, Robert H., 1998, "Discovery of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars Using Ultraviolet Excess and Deep Radio Selection," The Astrophysical Journal, 505, L7- Brotherton, M. S., Wills, Beverley J., Dey, Arjun, van Breugel, Wil, and Antonucci, Robert, 1998, "Spectropolarimetry of 3CR 68.1: A Highly Inclined Quasar," The Astrophysical Journal, 501, 110- De Breuck, Carlos, Brotherton, M. S., Tran, Hien D., van Breugel, Wil, and Rottgering, Huub J. A., 1998, "Discovery of an Ultra-Steep-Spectrum, Highly Polarized Red Quasar at Z = 1.462," The Astronomical Journal, 116, 13-19 Brotherton, M. S., Tran, Hien D., van Breugel, Wil, Dey, Arjun, and Antonucci, Robert, 1997, "Spectropolarimetry of FIRST Broad Absorption Line Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 487, L113- Clocchiatti, Alejandro, Wheeler, J. Craig, Brotherton, Michael S., Cochran, Anita L., Wills, Derek, Barker, Edwin S., and Turatto, Massimo, 1996, "SN 1994I: Disentangling He i Lines in Type IC Supernovae," The Astrophysical Journal, 462, 462- Maoz, D., Ofek, E. O., Shemi, A., Barth, A. J., Filippenko, A. V., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, B. J., Wills, D., and Lockman, F. J., 1996, "Optical identification of quasar 0917+7122 in the direction of an extreme-ultraviolet source.," Astronomy and Astrophysics, 308, 511-513 Clocchiatti, Alejandro, Benetti, Stefano, Wheeler, J. Craig, Wren, William, Boisseau, J., Cappellaro, Enrico, Turatto, Massimo, Patat, Ferdinando, Swartz, Douglas A., Harkness, Robert P., Brotherton, Michael S., Wills, Beverly, Hemenway, Paul, Cornell, Mark, Frueh, Marian, and Kaiser, Mary B., 1996, "A Study of SN 1992H in NGC 5377," The Astronomical Journal, 111, 1286- Brotherton, M. S., 1996, "The Profiles of H beta and [O III] lambda 5007 in Radio-loud Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 102, 1-29 Wills, B. J. and Brotherton, M. S., 1996, "Jets and QSO Spectra," Jets from Stars and Galactic Nuclei, 471, 203- Wills, Beverley J. and Brotherton, M. S., 1995, "An Improved Measure of Quasar Orientation," The Astrophysical Journal, 448, L81- Netzer, Hagai, Brotherton, M. S., Wills, Beverley J., Han, Mingsheng, Wills, D., Baldwin, J. A., Ferland, G. J., and Browne, I. W. A., 1995, "The Hubble Space Telescope Sample of Radio-loud Quasars: The LY alpha /H beta Ratio," The Astrophysical Journal, 448, 27- Wills, Beverley J., Thompson, Keith L., Han, Mingsheng, Netzer, H., Wills, D., Baldwin, J. A., Ferland, G. J., Browne, I. W. A., and Brotherton, M. S., 1995, "Hubble Space Telescope Sample of Radio-loud Quasars: Ultraviolet Spectra of the First 31 Quasars," The Astrophysical Journal, 447, 139- Wheeler, J. C., Harkness, R. P., Clocchiatti, A., Benetti, S., Brotherton, M. S., Depoy, D. L., and Elias, J., 1994, "SN 1994I in M51 and the nature of type IBC supernovae," The Astrophysical Journal, 436, L135- Brotherton, M. S., Wills, Beverley J., Francis, Paul J., and Steidel, Charles C., 1994, "The intermediate line region of QSOs," The Astrophysical Journal, 430, 495-504 Netzer, Hagai, Kazanas, D., Wills, Beverly J., Wills, D., Mingsheng, Han, Brotherton, M. S., Baldwin, J. A., Ferland, G. J., and Browne, I. W. A., 1994, "The optical-ultraviolet-gamma-ray spectrum of 3C 279," The Astrophysical Journal, 430, 191-195 Peterson, B. M., Berlind, P., Bertram, R., Bochkarev, N. G., Bond, D., Brotherton, M. S., Busler, J. R., Chuvaev, K. K., Cohen, R. D., Dietrich, M., Elvis, M., Filippenko, A. V., Foltz, C. B., Garnavich, P. M., Ho, L. C., Horine, E., Horne, K., Huchra, J. P., Kollatschny, W., Korista, K. T., Malkan, M. A., Matheson, T., Mignoli, M., Morris, S. L., Nazarova, L., Penfold, J., Peters, J., Pogge, R. W., Pronik, V. I., Rush, B., Sergeev, S. G., Shapovalova, A. I., Shields, J. C., Stirpe, G. M., Tokarz, S., Wagner, R. M., Weymann, R. J., White, R. J., Wilkes, B. J., Wills, D., Wills, B. J., Winge, C., and Younger, P. F., 1994, "Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active nuclei. 7: Variability of the optical spectrum of NGC 5548 over years," The Astrophysical Journal, 425, 622-634 Brotherton, M. S., Wills, Beverley J., Steidel, Charles C., and Sargent, Wallace L. W., 1994, "Statistics of QSO broad emission-line profiles. 2: The C IV wavelength 1549, C III) wavelength 1909, and MG II wavelength 2798 lines," The Astrophysical Journal, 423, 131-142 Shrader, C. R., Webb, J. R., Balonek, T. J., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, Beverley J., Wills, D., Godlin, S. D., Smith, A. G., and McCollum, B., 1994, "Optical and ultraviolet observations of 3C 279 during outburst," The Astronomical Journal, 107, 904-909 Wills, Beverley J., Brotherton, M. S., Fang, D., Steidel, Charles C., and Sargent, Wallace L. W., 1993, "Statistics of QSO Broad Emission-Line Profiles. I. The C IV lambda 1549 Line and the lambda 1400 Feature," The Astrophysical Journal, 415, 563- Wills, Beverley J., Netzer, H., Brotherton, M. S., Han, Mingsheng, Wills, D., Baldwin, J. A., Ferland, G. J., and Browne, I. W. A., 1993, "The narrow-line region of high-luminosity active galactic nuclei," The Astrophysical Journal, 410, 534-542
Refereed Chapters in Books:
Brotherton, Michael S., 2013, “A Gram of Prevention is Worth a Kilogram of Cure: Teaching Writers Science,” In Hollywood Chemistry – When Science Met Entertainment, edited by Nelson, Grazier, Paglia, and Perkowitz, ACS Symposium Series, Volume 1139, American Chemical Society, 25-33
Brotherton, M.S. 2009, “What would Galileo Teach Today,” Galileo's Classroom: A Teacher Workshop in Celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (Slater, S., Baily, J., Gibbs, M., editors), http://www.uwyo.edu/caper/info.asp?p=16091
Refereed Proceedings/Transactions:
DiPompeo, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., De Breuck, C., and Laurent-Muehleisen, S., 2012, "Reorienting Our Perspective of Broad Absorption Line Quasars," AGN Winds in Charleston. Proceedings of a Conference held 14-21 October, 2011 at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Edited by G. Chartas, F. Hamann, and K.M. Leighly. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 460. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012., p.62, 460, 62 Gonzalez Delgado, R. M., Rodriguez Zaurin, J., Perez, E., Alonso-Herrero, A., Tadhunter, C., Veilleux, S., Heckman, T., Overzier, R., Goncalves, T. S., Alberdi, A., Perez Torres, M. A., Pasquali, A., Monreal-Ibero, A., Diaz-Santos, T., Garcia-Burillo, S., Miralles Caballero, D., Di Matteo, P., Kewley, L., Ramos Almeida, C., Weiner, B., Rothberg, B., Tan, J. C., Jogee, S., Cid Fernandes, R., Rodrigues, M., Delgado-Serrano, R., Spoon, H., Hopkins, P., Rupke, D., Bellocchi, E., Cortijo, C., Piqueras Lopez, J., Canalizo, G., Imanishi, M., Lazarova, M., Villar-Martin, M., Brotherton, M., Wild, V., Swinbank, M., Menendez-Delmestre, K., Hammer, F., Perez-González, P., Turner, J., Fischer, J., Sanchez, S. F., Colina, L., and Gardini, A., 2010, "Extreme Starbursts in the Local Universe," eprint arXiv:1008.2107, arXiv:1008.2107- Sanmartim, David, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, and Brotherton, Michael S., 2010, "Kinematics and Principal Component Analysis from IFU Spectroscopy of the Post-Starburst Quasar SDSS J0210-0903," Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 267, p. 138-138, 267, 138-138 Brotherton, Michael, Cales, Sabrina, Ganguly, Rajib, Shang, Zhaohui, Canalizo, Gabriela, Stoll, R., Paul, C., and Diamond-Stanic, A. M., 2010, "Post-Starburst Quasars," Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 267, p. 105-105, 267, 105-105 Shang, Z., Brotherton, M., Ganguly, R., Cales, S., and Strom, A., 2009, "HST and Spitzer View of Post-Starburst Quasars," The Starburst-AGN Connection. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 408, proceedings of the conference held 27-31 October 2008, at Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Edited by Weimin Wang, Zhaoqing Yang, Zhijian Luo, and Zhu Chen. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009., p.185, 408, 185- Wold, M., Brotherton, M. S., and Shang, Z., 2008, "Black hole mass and variability in quasars," Proceedings of the 2nd Kolkata Conference on Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe held in Kolkata India, 10-15 February 2008 and the Satellite Meeting on Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and Gamma-Ray Bursts held 16-17 February 2008. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1053, pp. 55-58 (2008)., 1053, 55-58 Wold, M., Brotherton, M. S., and Shang, Z., 2008, "Quasar Optical Variability and Black Hole Mass," The Nuclear Region, Host Galaxy and Environment of Active Galaxies (Eds. Erika Benitez, Irene Cruz-Gonzalez, & Yair Krongold) Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 32, pp. 15-17 (2008) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/), 32, 15-17 Shang, Z., Brotherton, M., Dale, D. A., and Hines, D., 2007, "UV to Mid-IR SEDs of Low-redshift Quasars," The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 373, proceedings of the conference held 16-21 October, 2006 at Xi'an Jioatong University, Xi'an, China. Edited by Luis C. Ho and Jian-Min Wang, p.604, 373, 604- Yuan, Q., Brotherton, M. S., Green, R. F., Ganguly, R., Shang, Z., and Kriss, G. A., 2007, "A Decelerating Wind Observed in Mrk 478," The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 373, proceedings of the conference held 16-21 October, 2006 at Xi'an Jioatong University, Xi'an, China. Edited by Luis C. Ho and Jian-Min Wang, p.329, 373, 329- Brotherton, M. S., 2007, "Busting Myths about BAL Quasars," The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 373, proceedings of the conference held 16-21 October, 2006 at Xi'an Jioatong University, Xi'an, China. Edited by Luis C. Ho and Jian-Min Wang, p.315, 373, 315- Scott, J., Kriss, G., Brotherton, M., Green, R., Hutchings, J., Shull, J. M., and Zheng, W., 2004, "A Composite EUV AGN Spectrum and the AGN Contribution to the Low Redshift UV Background," MULTIWAVELENGTH AGN SURVEYS. Proceedings of the Guillermo Haro Conference 2003. Held 8-12 December 2003 in Cozumel, Mexico. Edited by Raual Muajica (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, & Optica y Electronica, Mexico) & Roberto Maiolino (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy). Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2004. ISBN #9789812702432, pp. 291-294, 291-294 Yuan, Q., Brotherton, M., Green, R. F., and Kriss, G. A., 2004, "Outflowing Components in the Prototype Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Markarian 478," International Astronomical Union Symposium no. 217, held 14-17 July, 2003 in Sydney, Australia. Edited by P.-A. Duc, J. Braine, and E. Brinks. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.364, 217, 364- Schaefer, J., Brotherton, M., Gregg, M., Becker, R., Laurent-Muehleisen, S., Lacy, M., and White, R., 2004, "XMM-Newton Observations of the FR II Radio-Loud BAL Quasar FIRST J1016+5209," AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Proceedings of a conference held in Princeton, NJ, USA, 27-31 July 2003, Edited by Gordon T. Richards and Patrick B. Hall, ASP Conference Series, Volume 311. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.329, 311, 329- Brotherton, M., Diamond-Stanic, A., vanden Berk, D., Burton, R., and Croom, S., 2004, "Post-starburst Quasars in the 2dF and SDSS," AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Proceedings of a conference held in Princeton, NJ, USA, 27-31 July 2003, Edited by Gordon T. Richards and Patrick B. Hall, ASP Conference Series, Volume 311. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.285, 311, 285- Wills, B., Yuan, M., Lacy, M., Hall, P., Brotherton, M., vanden Berk, D., and Richards, G., 2004, "Black Hole Accretion and Outflows at z ~ 2," AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Proceedings of a conference held in Princeton, NJ, USA, 27-31 July 2003, Edited by Gordon T. Richards and Patrick B. Hall, ASP Conference Series, Volume 311. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.99, 311, 99- Scott, J., Kriss, G., Brotherton, M., Green, R., Hutchings, J., Shull, J., and Zheng, W., 2004, "A Composite Extreme Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from FUSE," AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Proceedings of a conference held in Princeton, NJ, USA, 27-31 July 2003, Edited by Gordon T. Richards and Patrick B. Hall, ASP Conference Series, Volume 311. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.31, 311, 31- Shields, G., Gebhardt, K., Salviander, S., Wills, B., Xie, B., Brotherton, M., Yuan, J., and Dietrich, M., 2003, "The Black Hole-Bulge Relationship in QSOs," Galaxy Evolution: Theory & Observations (Eds. Vladimir Avila-Reese, Claudio Firmani, Carlos S. Frenk; Christine Allen) Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 17, (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/), 17, 242-242 Yuan, Qi-Rong, Green, Richard F., Brotherton, Michael, and Kriss, Gerard A., 2003, "Associated far-ultraviolet absorption lines in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Markarian 478," Publications of the Yunnan Observatory (ISSN 1001-7526), 95, Supplement, p. 46 - 50 (2003). In: China-Germany Workshop on the Multiwavelength View on AGN, Lijiang, 30.7.-4.8.2002., 95, 46-50 Yuan, Q., Green, R. F., and Brotherton, M. S., 2002, "Intrinsic Far-UV Absorbers in the Radio-Loud Quasar 3C 351," The Proceedings of the IAU 8th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, Volume II, held at National Center of Sciences, Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo, July 2 - 5, 2002, Edited by S. Ikeuchi, J. Hearnshaw, and T. Hanawa, the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2002, p. 409-410, 409-410 Tran, H. D., Brotherton, M. S., Stanford, S. A., and van Bruegel, W., 1999, "Hidden Quasars in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies," Active Galactic Nuclei and Related Phenomena, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 194, held 17-21 Aug. 1998, in Yerevan, Armenia. Edited by Y. Terzian, E. Khachikian, and D. Weedman, San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999., p.181, 194, 181- Wills, B. J., Brotherton, M. S., Laor, A., Wills, D., Wilkes, B. J., and Ferland, G. J., 1999, "The PG X-ray QSO Sample: Links among X-ray, UV & Optical Spectra," 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.241, 175, 241- Brotherton, M. S. and Francis, Paul J., 1999, "The Intermediate Line Region and the Baldwin Effect," Quasars and Cosmology, ASP Conference Series 162, Edited by Gary Ferland and Jack Baldwin. Astronomical Society of the Pacific (San Francisco), ISBN 1-886733-83-X (1999)., p.395, 162, 395- Wills, Beverly J., Brotherton, M., Laor, Ari, Wills, Derek, Wilkes, Belinda J., Ferland, Gary J., and Shang, Zhaohui, 1999, "The PG X-Ray QSO sample: Links between the UV-X-Ray Continuum and Emission Lines," Quasars and Cosmology, ASP Conference Series 162, Edited by Gary Ferland and Jack Baldwin. Astronomical Society of the Pacific (San Francisco), ISBN 1-886733-83-X (1999)., p.373, 162, 373- Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, W., Dey, A., and Antonucci, R., 1997, "Spectropolarimetry of FIRST 0840+3633," Mass Ejection from Active Galactic Nuclei; ASP Conference Series; Vol. 128; 1997; ed. N. Aravm ; I. Shlosman ; and R. J. Weymann (1997), p.84, 128, 84- Brotherton, M. S., 1997, "Near-IR Spectroscopy of High-z QSOs: Relating the Broad and Narrow-Line Regions," Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques; IAU Colloquium 159. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series #113; Proceedings of a meeting held in Shanghai; People's Republic of China; 17-20 June 1996; San Francisco: edited by Bradley M. Peterson, Fu-zhen Cheng, and Andrew S. Wilson., p.258, 113, 258- Wills, D., Thompson, K. L., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, Beverley J., Baldwin, J. A., Carswell, R. F., Browne, I. W. A., and Netzer, H., 1997, "The HST Sample of Radio-Loud Quasars: Fell and Other Correlations," Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques; IAU Colloquium 159. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series #113; Proceedings of a meeting held in Shanghai; People's Republic of China; 17-20 June 1996; San Francisco: edited by Bradley M. Peterson, Fu-zhen Cheng, and Andrew S. Wilson., p.106, 113, 106- Wills, Beverley J., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, D., Thompson, K. L., Baldwin, J. A., Carswell, R. F., Browne, I. W. A., Netzer, H., and Francis, P. J., 1997, "The HST Sample of Radio-Loud Quasars: Emission Lines from Ly-alpha to H-Beta," Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques; IAU Colloquium 159. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series #113; Proceedings of a meeting held in Shanghai; People's Republic of China; 17-20 June 1996; San Francisco: edited by Bradley M. Peterson, Fu-zhen Cheng, and Andrew S. Wilson., p.104, 113, 104- Wills, Beverley J., Baldwin, J. A., Wills, D., Netzer, H., Ferland, G. J., Browne, I. W. A., Brotherton, M. S., Carswell, R. F., and Han, M., 1994, "From Ly α to the Hydrogen Balmer Lines: Quasi-Simultaneous HST-Ground-Based Spectrophotometry of a Quasar Sample," The Analysis of Emission Lines. Poster papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute symposium in honor of the 70th birthdays of D.E. Osterbrock and M.J. Seaton, held 16-18 May, 1994 at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD. Edited by Robert E. Williams and Mario Livio. Baltimore: STScI, 1994., p.90, 90- Brotherton, M. S. and Wills, Beverly J., 1994, "The Intermediate Line Region of QSOs," The Analysis of Emission Lines. Poster papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute symposium in honor of the 70th birthdays of D.E. Osterbrock and M.J. Seaton, held 16-18 May, 1994 at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD. Edited by Robert E. Williams and Mario Livio. Baltimore: STScI, 1994., p.7, 7- Wills, B. J., Netzer, H., Brotherton, M. S., Han, M., Wills, D., Baldwin, J. A., Ferland, G. J., and Browne, I. W. A., 1993, "McDonald Observatory - Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy of the narrow line region of high luminosity active galactic nuclei.," Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, Vol. 27, p. 225 - 226, 27, 225-226 Brotherton, M. S. and Wills, B. J., 1993, "A New Interpretation of Broad Emission Line Widths in High Luminosity AGNS," Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, 27, 223, 27, 223- Shrader, C. R., Webb, J. R., Balonek, T. J., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, B. J., Wills, D., Godlin, S. D., and McCollum, B., 1993, "The optical-UV spectrum of 3C 279 during outburst.," AIP Conf. Proc., No. 280, p. 513 - 517, 280, 513-517 Wills, B. J., Fang, D., and Brotherton, M. S., 1992, "Kinematic Axisymmetry in QSOS," Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei. Proceedings of the International Conference, held in Heidelberg, Germany, June 3-7, 1991. Editors, W.J. Duschl, S.J. Wagner, Publisher, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany; New York, NY, 1992. ISBN # 3-540-55554-4. LC # QB858.3 .P49 P.264, 1992, 264-
Other (Educational and Popular Science Articles)
Brotherton, M. S., 2012, “The Launchpad Astronomy Workshop for Writers,” In: 2012 summer issue of the Science Fiction Writers of America Bulletin
Brotherton, M. S. 2011, “Deja New,” in Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists, edited by Leah Wilson and Kevin R. Grazier, BenBella Books
Brotherton, M. S., 2011, “Inventing the Future,” in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction, edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman, Wildside Press
Brotherton, M. S., 2011, “Dividing Space by Zero,” Lightspeed Magazine, http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/dividing-space-by-zero
Brotherton, M., S. 2010, “Is There Anyone Out There Who Wants to Go Fast?” Lightspeed Magazine,
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/anyone-want-to-go-fast/
Brotherton, M. S., 2008, “Where Science Meets Science Fiction,” Astronomy Beat, Magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Other (American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts, IAU Circulars):
DiPompeo, Michael A., Brotherton, M. S., and Myers, A. D., 2013, "An IR Excess Identified in Radio-Loud BAL Quasars," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 221, #430.04- Bhattacharjee, Anirban, Brotherton, Michael, DiPompeo, Michael, Runnoe, Jessie, Cales, Sabrina, Cook, Dave, Nissim, Sam, Staudaher, Shawn, Smullen, Rachel, Long, Garrett, Miller, Amy, Chatterjee, Ritaban, Chatterjee, Suchetana, Lundquist, Mike, Eftekerzadeh, Sareh, and Woods, Earl, 2013, "Reverberation Mapping of Radio-Loud Active Galatic Nuclei," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 221, #422.04- Mason, Michelle, Erickson, N., Roberts, C. A., Johnson-Groh, M., Starcevich, D., Niles Nissim, S., Bhattacharjee, A., Brotherton, M. S., Dale, D. A., and Kobulnicky, H. A., 2013, "Reverberation Mapping of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 221, #339.21- Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, M. S., and Shang, Z., 2013, "Better Determinations of Quasar Fundamental Parameters," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 221, #309.01- DiPompeo, Michael A., Brotherton, M. S., De Breuck, C., Laurent-Muehleisen, S., and Myers, A. D., 2012, "The First Direct Measure of BAL Quasar Orientations," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #219, 219, #435.02- Hiner, Kyle, Canalizo, G., Wold, M., and Brotherton, M., 2012, "Measuring the M-σ Relation with Quasars from 0.2 < z < 1," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #219, 219, #307.01- Runnoe, Jessie C., Brotherton, M., and Shang, Z., 2012, "Updating Standard Quasar Bolometric Luminosity Corrections," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #219, 219, #243.19- Shang, Zhaohui, Brotherton, M., Wills, B., and Wills, D., 2012, "The New Generation Quasar SEDs from Radio to X-rays," American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #219, 219, #243.18- Townsend, Shonda, Ganguly, R., Strom, A., Cales, S., and Brotherton, M. S., 2011, "Recent Star-formation in Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 43, #142.05- Ganguly, Rajib, Bourjaily, M., Munsell, J., Brotherton, M. S., Bhattacharjee, A., Runnoe, J., Charlton, J. C., and Eracleous, M., 2011, "Toward a Prescription for Feedback from Quasar Outflows," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 43, #142.04- Stark, Michele A., Ganguly, R., Gallagher, S. C., Gibson, R., and Brotherton, M. S., 2011, "Testing the Radiative-Driving Hypothesis of Quasar Outflows," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 43, #142.03- DiPompeo, Michael A., Brotherton, M. S., Becker, R. H., Tran, H. D., Gregg, M. D., White, R. L., and Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., 2010, "Keck Spectropolarimetry of Radio-Selected Broad Absorption Line Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, #602.08- Strom, Allison, Ganguly, R., Brotherton, M., Cales, S., and Stoll, R., 2009, "The Young Stellar Content of Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 41, #484.10- Cales, Sabrina, Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Z., Bennert, N., Canalizo, G., Stoll, R., Ganguly, R., Vanden Berk, D., Paul, C., and Diamond-Stanic, A. M., 2009, "HST/ACS Snapshot Imaging of 29 Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 41, #484.09- Ganguly, Rajib, Strom, A., Brotherton, M., and Cales, S., 2009, "Post-starburst Quasars: Still Star-forming or Blowhards?," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 41, #342.02- Brotherton, Michael S., Cales, S., Ganguly, R., Shang, Z., and Canalizo, G., 2008, "Hubble Space Telescope Images of Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 40, 217- Ganguly, Rajib and Brotherton, M. S., 2007, "What Fraction of Active Galaxies Actually Show Outflows?," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 39, 865- Berrington, Robert C., Brotherton, M. S., Gallagher, S. C., Ganguly, R., Shang, Z., Lacy, M., Gregg, M. D., Hall, P. B., and Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., 2007, "The X-ray Spectrum and Spectral Energy Distribution of FIRST J155633.8+351758: A Beamed Radio-Quiet Quasar with a Polar Outflow," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 39, 855- Shang, Zhaohui, Brotherton, M. S., Hines, D. C., and Dale, D. A., 2007, "Connections Between UV-optical and Mid-infrared Spectral Properties in Quasars -- Effects of Dust," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 39, 797- Runnoe, Jessie, Ganguly, R., Brotherton, M. S., and Shang, Z., 2007, "Rest-frame Optical Properties of High-Redshift Radio-Selected Broad Absorption Line Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 39, 796- Cales, Sabrina, Brotherton, M., Stoll, R., and Canalizo, G., 2007, "The Environments of Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 39, 95- Brotherton, Michael S., Stoll, R., Paul, C., Diamond-Stanic, A., Shang, Z., Cales, S., Ganguly, R., Canalizo, G., and Vaden Berk, D., 2007, "A Catalog of Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 39, 95- Shang, Zhaohui and Brotherton, M., 2006, "Applications Of Spectral Principle Component Analysis In AGN Research: Sample Selection and Beyond, " Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 38, 985- Stoll, R., Brotherton, M., Paul, C., Shang, Z., and Cales, S., 2005, "The Environoments of Post-Starburst Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37, #116.03- Scoggins, B., Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Z., and Vestergaard, M., 2004, "Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, #143.11- Paul, C., Brotherton, M. S., Diamond-Stanic, A., Vanden Berk, D., and Canalizo, G., 2004, "The Post-Starburst Quasar Population," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, #143.05- Brotherton, M., 2004, "Diamonds in the Sky," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, #112.04- Weinzirl, T., Brotherton, M. S., Nandra, K., Georgantopoulos, I., and Papadakis, I., 2004, "Counting All the SHEEP," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 1387- Shang, Z., Brotherton, M., Green, R., Kriss, G., Scott, J., Kim, J., Blaes, O., Hubeny, I., Zheng, W., Kaiser, M., Oegerle, W., and Hutchings, J., 2004, "AGN SEDs and the Big Blue Bump," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 824- Brotherton, M. S. and Scoggins, B., 2004, "The Self-Consistency of C IV and H-beta Black Hole Mass Estimates in High-Redshift, High-Luminosity Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 823- Schaefer, J. J. and Brotherton, M. S., 2004, "FR II BALQSOs in DR2 of the SDSS," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 767- Scoggins, B., Brotherton, M. S., Becker, R. H., Tran, H. D., Gregg, M. D., White, R. L., and Laurent-Muehleisen, S., 2004, "A Spectropolarimetric Survey of Radio-Selected Broad Absorption Line Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 766- Diamond-Stanic, A. M. and Brotherton, M. S., 2003, "Poststarburst Quasars in the Sloan Digitial Sky Survey," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, 1327- Scott, J. E., Kriss, G. A., Brotherton, M. S., Green, R. F., Hutchings, J., Shull, J. M., and Zheng, W., 2003, "The AGN Contribution to the Low Redshift Ultraviolet Background," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, 1310- Schaefer, J. J. and Brotherton, M. S., 2003, "FR II BALQSOs in the SDSS," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, 1300- Gallagher, S. C., Hylton, S., Brandt, W. N., Brotherton, M. S., Chartas, G., Hines, D. C., and Smith, P. S., 2003, "A Sensitive Chandra Observation of Markarian 231, the Most Luminous Galaxy in the Local Universe," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, 1296- Scott, J. E., Kriss, G. A., Brotherton, M., Green, R. F., Hutchings, J., Shull, J. M., and Zheng, W., 2003, "A Composite Extreme Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from FUSE," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, 759- Scott, J. E., Kriss, G. A., Alexander, T., Brotherton, M. S., Green, R. F., Hutchings, J. B., Kaiser, M. E., Lee, J. C., Marshall, H. L., Oegerle, W. R., Ogle, P. M., and Zheng, W., 2002, "The Intrinsic Absorption Spectrum of Mrk 279," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, #146.03- Kriss, G. A., Scott, J. E., Alexander, T., Brotherton, M., Green, R. F., Hutchings, J., Kaiser, M. E., Oegerle, W., Shull, J. M., Sembach, K., York, D., and Zheng, W., 2002, "Ultraviolet Properties of Low-Redshift AGN Observed with FUSE," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 35, #146.01- Brotherton, M. S., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Becker, R. H., Gregg, M. D., Telis, G., and White, R. L., 2002, "X-rays from Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34, #114.11- Filippenko, A. V., Brotherton, M., and Nandra, P., 2002, "Supernova 2002cw in NGC 6700," International Astronomical Union Circular, 7905, 4- Brotherton, M. S., Green, R. F., Kriss, G. A., Alexander, T., Kim, J., Zheng, W., Kaiser, M. E., Oegerle, W., and Hutchings, J., 2001, "Big Blue Bumps in AGN," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, #138.01- Yuan, Q., Green, R. F., Brotherton, M., Kriss, G. A., Tripp, T. M., and Kaiser, M. E., 2001, "Associated Absorption Lines in the STIS Spectrum of the Radio-Loud Quasar 3C351," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 1457- Kaiser, M. E., Calvani, H., Kriss, G. A., Sembach, K. R., Friedman, S. D., Zheng, W., Green, R. F., Brotherton, M., Oegerle, W. R., Woodgate, B., Hutchings, J. B., Shull, J. M., and York, D. G., 2001, "Intrinsic Ultraviolet Absorption in Mrk 290," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 1374- Grabelsky, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., Canalizo, G., Breugel, W., Croom, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Stockton, A., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Miller, L., and Shanks, T., 2001, "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Post-starburst Quasar UN J1025-0040: ``Post''-starburst No More?," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 1365- Brotherton, M. S., Green, R. F., Kriss, G. A., Zheng, W., Kaiser, M. E., Hutchings, J., and Oegerle, W., 2001, "FUSE Observations of NGC 5548 in a Low State," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33, 894- Kaiser, M. E., Kriss, G. A., Sembach, K. R., Oegerle, W. R., Davidsen, A. F., Friedman, S. D., Zheng, W., Green, R. F., Brotherton, M., Woodgate, B., Hutchings, J. B., Shull, J. M., and York, D. G., 2000, "Intrinsic Ultraviolet Absorption in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 3783," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 32, #109.11- Kay, L. E., Moran, E. C., Filippenko, A. V., Barth, A. J., Leighly, K., Magalhes, A. M., Brotherton, M., and Becker, R., 2000, "Seyfert 2 Galaxies: Unification and the X-ray Background," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 32, #109.03- Mathur, S., Green, P., Otani, C., Shields, J., Hamann, F., Korista, K., Arav, N., DeKool, M., Elvis, M., Peterson, B., Crenshaw, M., Foltz, C., Goodrich, R., Hines, D., Mushotzky, R., Shlosman, I., van Breugel, W., Voit, M., and Brotherton, M., 1999, "Deep ASCA Observation of a Typical BALQSO PG0946+301," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31, 1516- Becker, R. H., Gregg, M. D., Laurent-Muehleisen, S., White, R. L., Brotherton, M., and Helfand, D. J., 1999, "The Discovery of a FIRST Radio-loud FRII BAL Quasar," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31, 1398- Helfand, D. J., Becker, R. H., Gregg, M. D., Laurent-Muehleisen, S., Brotherton, M., and White, R. L., 1999, "The FIRST Quasar Survey: Where's the Bimodality in Radio Loudness?," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31, 1398- Kriss, G., Green, R., Brotherton, M., Davidsen, A., Friedman, S., Oegerle, W., Kaiser, M. E., Zheng, W., Hutchings, J., Shull, M., Woodgate, B., Koratkar, A., and FUSE Science Team, 1999, "Initial FUSE Results on Active Galactic Nuclei," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31, 1376- Wills, B. J., Laor, A., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, D., Shang, Zhaohui, Wilkes, B. J., and Ferland, G. J., 1998, "The PG X-ray QSO Sample: Ionizing Continuum and Properties of the Fueling Gas," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 30, #107.05- Tran, H. D., Brotherton, M. S., Stanford, S. A., van Breugel, W., Dey, A., Stern, D., and Antonucci, R., 1998, "Hidden Quasars in Radio-Selected Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 30, #107.04- Becker, R. H., White, R. L., Gregg, M. D., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Brotherton, M. S., Impey, C. D., Petry, C. E., Chaffee, F., Richards, G., Oegerle, W. R., Helfand, D. J., McMahon, R. G., and Cabanela, J. E., 1998, "The FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. II. 60 Nights and 1200 Spectra Later," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 30, #107.02- Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Becker, R. H., Gregg, M. D., Brotherton, M. S., White, R. L., and Helfand, D. J., 1998, "The FBQS BL Lac Sample," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 30, 1286- Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, W., Stanford, S. A., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Miller, L., and Filippenko, A. V., 1998, "A Spectacular Post-Starburst Quasar," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 30, 1280- Becker, R. H., Laurent-Muehleisen, S., Gregg, M., Brotherton, M., White, R. L., Helfand, D. J., Chaffee, F., Impey, C., and Petry, C., 1998, "The FIRST Faint Quasar Survey," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 30, 831- Brotherton, M. S., 1995, "The Nature of Quasar Emission Line Regions," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 27, #119.03- Thompson, K. L., Wills, B. J., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, D., Netzer, H., Baldwin, J. A., Carswell, R. F., and Ferland, G. J., 1995, "Fe II Emission as a Probe in Radio Loud Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 27, 1411- Wills, Beverley J., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, D., Thompson, K. L., Netzer, H., Baldwin, J. A., Ferland, G. J., Carswell, R. F., and Han, M., 1994, "HST -- Ground-based Spectrophotometry of a Quasar Sample: Emission Line Profiles, Radio Emission, and Orientation?," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 26, 1340- Brotherton, Michael S., 1994, "Hβ and [O III] lambda 5007 Profiles in Radio-loud Quasars," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 26, 1339- Brotherton, M. S. and Wills, B. J., 1994, "The intermediate line region of QSOs.," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 26, 959- Brotherton, M. S. and Wills, Beverley J., 1994, "The Intermediate Line Region of QSOs," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 26, 959- Wills, B. J., Baldwin, J. A., Brotherton, M. S., Netzer, H., Ferland, G. J., Wills, D., Browne, I. W. A., Carswell, R. F., and Han, M., 1994, "HST and Ground-Based Spectroscopy of High Luminosity AGNs," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 26, 875- Clocchiatti, A., Brotherton, M., Harkness, R. P., Wheeler, J. C., Mikuz, H., and Corwin, H., 1994, "Supernova 1994I in NGC 5194," International Astronomical Union Circular, 5972, 2- Han, M., Wills, Beverley J., Brotherton, M. S., Wills, D., Baldwin, J. A., Netzer, H., Ferland, G. J., and Browne, I. W. A., 1993, "The Broad Line Region of Radio-loud Quasars: New Hubble Space Telescope & Ground-based Spectroscopy," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 25, 792- Brotherton, M. S. and Wills, Beverley J., 1993, "Emission Line Width: A Key Observational Parameter in High Luminosity QSOs," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 25, 791
CONTRACTS & GRANTS
Funded Projects as PI
Years (2013-2015) Rehabilitating C IV-Based Quasar Black Hole Estimates, Space Telescope Space Institute, $58k
Years (2012-2013) Initiating Quasar Reverberation Mapping at Wyoming, NASA Wyoming Spacegrant, $20k
Years (2010-2011) New Perspectives on Quasar Outflows, NSF, $64k
Years (2010-2012) Understanding Post-Starburst Quasars, NASA NESFF Fellowship (to support Sabrina Cales), $90k
Years (2006-2010) Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers, NASA E/PO proposal supplemental to LTSA, $60k
Years (2005-2010) Understanding the Post-Starburst Quasar Population, NASA, LTSA, $629K
Years (2005-2008) Quasar Superunification and the Man Behind the Curtain, NSF, $240K
Years (2006-2007) A Deep Look at the (Relatively) X-ray Bright Broad Absorption Line Quasar FIRST J1556+3517, Chandra X-ray Observatory, $43K
Years (2005-2007) The Host Galaxies of Post-Starburst Quasars, Space Telescope Science Institute (NASA), $55K
Years (2005-2006) X-rays from Extreme Broad Absorption Line Quasars, Brotherton is Budget PI, Paul Nandra (Imperial College, London) CoPI, Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA), $35k
Years (2004-2005) A Deep Look at the (Relatively) X-ray Bright Broad Absorption Line Quasar FIRST J1556+3517, Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA), $44K
Years (2003-2004) A Decade of AGN Spectral Energy Distributions, Space Telescope Science Institute (NASA), $55K
Years (2003-2004) X-rays from Extreme Broad Absorption Line Quasars, Patrick Hall Co-PI, Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA), $38K
Years (2002-2003) X-rays from Extreme Broad Absorption Line Quasars, Patrick Hall Co-PI, Chandra X-ray Observatory (NASA), $35K
Years (2002-2003) The Natural Occulting Disk and Host Galaxy of the Red BAL Quasar FIRST J1556+3517, Space Telescope Science Institute (NASA), $26K.
Years (2001-2002) A Spectacular Post-Starburst Quasar and the AGN-Starburst Connection, Space Telescope Science Institute, (NASA), $26K.
Funded Projects as CoPI
Years (2009-2011) A Multivariate, Panchromatic Investigation of Outflows as a Function of Quasar Properties, Rajib Ganguly PI (NASA ADAP), $105k
Years (2009-2011) Testing the Radiative-Driving Hypothesis of Quasar Outflows, Rajib Ganguly PI (Chandra X-Ray Observatory), $72k
Years (2008-2009) The Young Stellar Content of Post-Starburst Quasars, Rajib Ganguly PI (NASA GALEX Cycle 4), $35k
Years (2007-2012) Upgrading the WIRO 2.3 m Telescope, NSF, Chip Kobulnicky PI, $413k
Years (2006-2008) The Infrared Properties of Post-Starburst Quasars, Zhaohui Shang PI, (NASA Spitzer Space Telescope program, via Caltech), $63k
Years (2005-2008) The Next Generation of Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions, Zhaohui Shang PI, (NASA ADP Program), $180k
Years (2005-2007) Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions, Zhaohui Shang PI, Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope (STScI, JPL, via NASA), $50k
Years (2004-2007) Development of a Wide-Field, Near-Infrared Camera for the Wyoming Infrared Observatory, Michael Pierce PI, $855k
Years (2002-2004) STIS/UV snapshot survey of bright AGN, PI is Nahum Arav (Colorado), Space Telescope Science Institute (NASA), my subcontract was $43K.
Pending Projects as PI
Years (2013-2015) The Quasarchive, NASA ADAP, $164k
Years (2013-2015) Updating the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers, Space Telescope Science Institute E/PO, $20k
Proposals not accepted as PI
Years (2013-2015) Quasar Black Hole Masses and Orientation Bias, NSF, $343k
Years (2013-2015) The Quasarchive, NASA ADAP, $299k
Years (2012-2014) Better Black Hole Masses through Quasar Reverberation Mapping at Wyoming, NSF, $299k
Years (2011-2012) The Hot Dust Bump of Quasars, NASA ADAP, $240k
Years (2011-2013) Exploring the Next Generation of Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions, NASA NESFF Fellowship (to support Jessie Runnoe), $90k
Years (2011-2012) Extreme Quasar Outflows: Geometry and Evolution, NASA NESFF Fellowship (to support Michael DiPompeo), $60k
Years (2011-2013) Quasars Two-Ways: Spectral Energy Distributions and Reverberation Mapping, NSF, $338k
Years (2011-2013) Quasar Outflows: Geometry, Evolution, and Demographics, NSF, $161k
Years (2009-2011) The Broader Impact of Understanding Quasar Outflows, NSF, $276k
Years (2009-2011) Understanding Post-Starburst Quasars, NASA NESFF Fellowship (to support Sabrina Cales), $90k
Years (2005-2010) CAREER: Quasars -- Fact, Fiction, and Future, NSF, $600k
Years (2005-2010) Launch Pad Science Workshop for Writers, NASA E/PO proposal supplemental to LTSA, $75k
Years (2004-2005) A Web-Based Lab for Estimation of Black Hole Masses in Quasars, E/PO Space Telescope Science Institute (NASA), $20k
Years (2002-2002) Quasar Host Galaxies and Mutual Quasar/Galaxy Evolution, Research Corporation, $35K.
Proposals not accepted as CoPI
Years (2008-2010) A Multivariate, Panchromatic Investigation of Outflows as a Function of Quasar Properties, Rajib Ganguly PI (NASA ADAP), $105k
Years (2005-2008) Revitalizing the Wyoming Infrared Observatory and Graduate Program, Michael Pierce PI, NSF, $342k
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
1993-present, American Astronomical Society
2009-present, International Astronomical Union
2013-present, Editorial Board, “Science and Fiction” line, Springer Publishing
2008-present, Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Astronomy
2012, NASA Post-doctoral Fellowship Review Panel
2012, National Science Foundation CAREER Review Panel
2001, 2009, 2011, Chandra X-ray Observatory Review Panel
2008, 2003, Hubble Space Telescope Review Panel
2005, 2004, 1998, National Science Foundation Review Panel
2004 to 2005, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Time Allocation Committee
2005, Spitzer Space Telescope Review Panel
1997-present, Referee for various astronomical journals, including the
Astronomical Journal, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, usually 2-5 per year, about 40 total
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013, 1996, International Travel Award Recipient, American Astronomical Society
2011, Science Guest of Honor, Windycon, Chicago, IL
2010, Faculty Senate Distinguished Speaker, UW Faculty Senate
2006, Extraordinary Merit Award for Research, UW College of Arts & Sciences
PAPERS PRESENTED/SYMPOSIA/INVITED LECTURES/PROFESSIONALMEETINGS/WORKSHOPS
2013-2007, Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers, University of Wyoming, Organizer/founder, Laramie
2013, 50 Years of Quasars, “Eigenvector 1 Biases in C IV-Based Black Hole Mass Scaling Relationships and Reverberation-Mapped Samples,” Pasadena, CA
2013, Invited Colloquium, “Improving Quasar Black Hole Masses,” University de Concepcion, Chile
2013, Invited Colloquium, “Improving Quasar Black Hole Masses,” Nanjing Normal University, China
2012, Invited Talk, “Writing Science Fiction,” Laramie County Library, Cheyenne, WY
2012, Invited Speaker, Dragon*Con, The Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop, Atlanta, GA
2012, Astronomy Meeting to Honor Miriani Pastoriza, “The Orientation Bias of Quasar Black Hole Masses,” Gramado, Brazil
2011, Invited Speaker for SPS zone conference, “Science and Science Fiction,” Laramie, WY
2011, Invited Speaker for Saturday University, “Science in the Movies,” Jackson, WY
2011, Invited Speaker and Science Guest of Honor, “Science in the Movies,” “The Science of Superheroes,” Windycon, Chicago, IL
2010, Invited Talk, Extreme Starbursts in the Local Universe, “Post-Starburst Quasars,” Grenada, Spain
2010, “Science in the Movies,” Faculty Senate Speaker Series (UW Laramie, Casper)
2010, “Science and Science Fiction,” Milehicon, Denver, WY
2010, “A Brief History of Dark Matter,” Sagecon, Laramie, WY
2010, “Science and Science Fiction,” and “Innovations in Astronomy,” Invited Talks, Rock Springs Community College, WY
2010, “Quasar Bolometric Corrections: Theoretical Considerations,” UW, Laramie, Astronomy Colloquium
2009, International Astronomical Union General Assembly, “Post-Starburst Quasars,” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009, “Science and Science Fiction,” Invited Colloquium, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2008, 212th American Astronomical Society Meeting, St. Louis, MO, presented “Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Post-Starburst Quasars,” Press Conference
2008, Multiple science/outreach talks, World Science Fiction convention, Denver, CO
2007, “Science and Science Fiction,” Revisioning the (W)hole Seminiar, UW, Laramie, WY
2007, Speaker, Annual Fox Park Star Party, Woods Landing, WY
2007, 201th American Astronomical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI
2006, “Science and Science Fiction,” Lunch Talk, ESO, Garching, Germany
2006, Official Visitor, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
2006, International Meeting on “The Central Engines of Active Galactic Nuclei,” Xi’an, China
2005, “Science Fiction in the Classroom,” and other presentations, World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, CA
2005, Workshop on Quasar Superunification, Elba Island, Italy
2005, 205th American Astronomical Meeting, AAS, San Diego, CA
2005, Invited Colloquium, Feb., University of Northern Colorado, Greely, CO
2004, 204th American Astronomical Meeting, AAS, Denver, CO
2004, “Highlights from the Hubble Telescope,” World Science Fiction Convention, Boston, MA
2003, Invited Colloquium, Sep. 5, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
2003, Paper presented, Aug. 1, AGN Physics with the SDSS Conference, Princeton, NJ
2003, 201st American Astronomical Meeting, AAS, Seattle, WA
2002, FUSE Science Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2002, 199th American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, Washington, DC
2001, Mass Outflow in Active Galactic Nuclei: New Perspectives, Catholic University, Washington, DC
2001, 198th American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, Pasadena, CA
1999, 193rd American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, Austin, TX
1998, Sixth Synthesis Imaging Summer School, NRAO, Socorro, NM
1998, Quasars as Standard Candles for Cosmology Workshop, CTIO, La Serena, Chile
1997, Mass Ejection from AGN Workshop, Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, CA
1996, IAU Colloquium 159, Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques, International Astronomical Union, Shanghai, China
1996, 187th American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, San Antonio, TX
1995, 185th American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, Tucson, AZ
1994, The Analysis of Emission Lines, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
1994, 184th American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, Minneapolis, MN
1993, 182nd American Astronomical Society Meeting, AAS, Berkeley, CA
1993, 3rd Texas-Mexico Conference, University of Texas at Austin, TX
1991, 2nd Texas-Mexico Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX
Also, I have sponsored many of my undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students to attend meetings (domestic and international) where they give talks and posters
COMMITTEES
College of Arts and Sciences, Self-Designed Major Committee, 2006-present
Faculty Senate, 2005-2006
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Director of Graduate Studies, 2006-2010
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Graduate Admissions, 2003-2007, 2010-2011 (Chair)
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2002- 2004
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2002-2007 (Chair), 2010-2011
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Qualifying Exam Committee, 2002-2007, 2013 (Chair in 2013)
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty Search Committee, 2004-2006
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty Search Committee, 2010 (Chair)
2010, Assessment of ASTR 1050, Survey of Astronomy (USP S)
STUDENT ADVISING/GRADUATE SUPERVISION (last 5 years)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:
5 Current Undergraduate Advisees
7 Previous Undergraduate Advisees – AY 2012-2013
6 Previous Undergraduate Advisees – AY 2011-2012
6 Previous Undergraduate Advisees – AY 2010-2011
9 Previous Undergraduate Advisees – AY 2009-2010
GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Current Graduate Advisees:
Anirban Bhattacharjee (PhD)
Michelle Mason (PhD)
Current Graduate Committee Chairmanships:
Anirban Bhattacharjee (PhD)
Current Graduate Committee Memberships (excluding those chaired):
0 Plan B
2 MS/MA (thesis)
2 PhD
Graduate Degrees Completed Under Your Supervision (past 5 years):
Jessie Runnoe (MS and PhD)
Michael DiPompeo (MS and PhD)
Sabrina Cales (PhD)
Anirban Bhattacharjee (MS)
POSTDOCTORAL STUDENTS/RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:
Past 5 years:
Rajib Ganguly, 2006-2009 (PhD)
Robert Berrington, 2007-2008 (PhD)
OTHER ACTIVITIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Visiting scholars/outstanding students sponsored:
Pat Hall (York University)
Qirong Yuan (Nanjing Normal University)
Rebecca Stoll (OSU/Yale)
Jerome Taylor (John Burroughs High School)
Kevin R. Grazier (JPL)
Geoffrey Landis (NASA)
Diego Tuccillo (Spain)
Rodrigo Nemmen (NASA/Goddard)
Zhaohui Shang (Tianjin Normal University)
Special service to the state/community:
Public science talks in Casper, Cheyenne, Rock Springs, Laramie, Jackson
Science-Based Science Fiction for stealth education and inspiration of new scientists:
Star Dragon (2003, Tor Books)
Diamonds in the Sky (NSF-sponsored, 2007), edited by Mike Brotherton
Spider Star (2008, Tor Books)
“Middle Ground” (2013, Hadrosaur Productions) in A Kepler's Dozen, edited by Steven B. Howell, and David Lee Summers
Launch Pad (2013, Event Horizon Books), edited by Jody Lynn Nye and Mike Brotherton, includes “Are We Alone?” by Mike Brotherton
Research/Creative/Professional
Development Activities Summary
For
reappointment, tenure, extended term and promotion candidates
to
be placed in front of the A&S vita (3.B) in Packet I.
Candidate: Michael Brotherton Date: September 2013
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UW |
UW Full Professor |
Career Total |
Published refereed articles and book chapters |
number |
24 |
30 |
97 |
Published books |
number |
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Grants awarded as PI |
number |
10 |
4 |
16 |
Grants awarded as CoPI |
number |
6 |
3 |
9 |
Grant dollars awarded |
amount |
$2838k |
$444k |
$3334k |
PhD committees chaired |
number |
0 |
3 |
3 |
PhD committee memberships |
number |
2 |
8 |
10 |
MFA committee chaired |
number |
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MFA committee memberships |
number |
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MA/MS committees chaired |
number |
2 |
3 |
5 |
MA/MS committee memberships |
number |
5 |
12 |
17 |
Other graduate degrees |
number |
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Juried performances/exhibits/productions |
number |
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Juried compositions/arrangements |
number |
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Juried productions (directed/choreographed) |
number |
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Juried technical direction |
number |
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Juried production design (scenery/lighting/costumes) |
number |
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Clinics/adjudications/workshops |
number |
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Other presentations or reviews with outside reviews (briefly describe) |
number |
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Current number of graduate advisees |
Number of graduate advisees |
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2 |
Current number of undergraduate advisees |
Number of undergraduate advisees |
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5 |
If any item needs clarification, explain in your self-assessment.