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


TEACHING (last five years)


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-&sigma; 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,  "H&beta; 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 &amp; 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




UW
During tenure- and extended-term track

UW

Full Professor
(If applicable)
Since tenure

Career Total
Including prior work not at UW

Published refereed articles and

book chapters

number

24

30

97

Published books

number




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




MFA committee memberships

number




MA/MS committees chaired

number

2

3

5

MA/MS committee memberships

number

5

12

17

Other graduate degrees

number









Juried performances/exhibits/productions

number




Juried compositions/arrangements

number




Juried productions (directed/choreographed)

number




Juried technical direction

number




Juried production design (scenery/lighting/costumes)

number




Clinics/adjudications/workshops

number









Other presentations or reviews with outside reviews (briefly describe)

number









Current number of graduate advisees

Number of graduate advisees



2

Current number of undergraduate advisees

Number of undergraduate advisees



5



If any item needs clarification, explain in your self-assessment.