Vardha Nicola Bennert

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Contact Info

Office: Broida 2233C
Office Phone: (805)893-3768
Fax: (805)893-3307
Email: bennert AT physics.ucsb.edu
Mail: Physics Department
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530

Research Interests

Active Galactic Nuclei
Black Hole Masses and Relations
Narrow-Line Region, Broad-Line Region
Quasar Host Galaxies
Galaxy Interactions and Mergers

Selected Publications1

Bennert, et al. 2010, ApJ, accepted: Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. IV. The BH Mass - Spheroid - Luminosity Relation
Cardamone, Schawinski, Sarzi, Bamford, Bennert, et al. 2009, MNRAS, 399, 1191: Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: discovery of a class of compact extremely star-forming galaxies
Bentz, Walsh, Barth, Baliber, Bennert, et al. 2009, ApJ, 705, 199: The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Broad-Line Region Radii and Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping of Hbeta
Lintott, Schawinski, van Arkel, Bennert, et al. 2009, MNRAS, 399, 129: Galaxy Zoo: `Hanny's Voorwerp', a quasar light echo?
Bennert, et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 276: A Search for H2O Megamasers in High-z Type-2 AGNs
Bentz, Walsh, Barth, Baliber, Bennert, et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, L21: First Results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project: The Mass of the Black Hole in Arp 151
Bennert, et al. 2008, ApJ, 677, 846: Evidence for merger remnants in early-type host galaxies of classical QSOs
Canalizo, Bennert, et al. 2007, ApJ, 669, 801: Spectacular shells in the host galaxy of the QSO MC2 1635+119
Bennert, et al. 2006, A&A, 459, 55: Size and properties of the narrow-line region in Seyfert-1 galaxies from spatially-resolved optical spectroscopy
Bennert, et al. 2006, A&A, 456, 953: Size and properties of the narrow-line region in Seyfert-2 galaxies from spatially-resolved optical spectroscopy
Leipski, Falcke, Bennert, et al. 2006, A&A, 455, 161: The radio structure of radio-quiet quasars
Leipski & Bennert 2006, A&A, 448, 165: [O III] profile substructure in radio-quiet quasars
Bennert, et al. 2006, A&A, 446, 919: Size and properties of the NLR in the Seyfert-2 galaxy NGC 1386
Bennert, et al. 2004 A&A, 419, 127: Spectral characteristics of water megamaser galaxies II. ESO 103-G035, TXS 2226-184, and IC 1481
Bennert, et al. 2002, ApJ, 574, L105: Size and structure of the Narrow-Line Region of quasars
1 Note that since September 2009, I am publishing as Vardha Nicola Bennert or Vardha N. Bennert (instead of Nicola Bennert).