Andrea M. Ghez

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - Nobel Prize for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
• 2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the advancement of diffractionlimited observing techniques and pathbreaking measurements that established the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and made possible a variety of other discoveries
• 2008 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
• 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1999 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, American Physical Society
• 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way’s Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits

  A. M. Ghez;S. Salim;N. N. Weinberg;N. N. Weinberg;J. R. Lu

  1640
  Citations

• Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole

  A. M. Ghez;S. Salim;S. D. Hornstein;A. Tanner

  1035
  Citations

• High Proper-Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sagittarius A*: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

  A. M. Ghez;B. L. Klein;M. Morris;E. E. Becklin

  1021
  Citations

• The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy’s Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth

  A. M. Ghez;A. M. Ghez;G. Duchêne;K. Matthews;S. D. Hornstein

  858
  Citations

• The multiplicity of T Tauri stars in the star forming regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiuchus-Scorpius: A 2.2 micron speckle imaging survey

  A. M. Ghez;G. Neugebauer;K. Matthews

  845
  Citations

• High Proper Motion Stars in the Vicinity of SGR A*: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

  A. M. Ghez;B. L. Klein;M. Morris;E. E. Becklin

  750
  Citations

• Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Binary Stars

  R. J. White;A. M. Ghez

  629
  Citations

• The accelerations of stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole

  A. M. Ghez;M. Morris;E. E. Becklin;A. Tanner

  548
  Citations

• A lunar occultation and direct imaging survey of multiplicity in the Ophiuchus and Taurus star-forming regions

  M. Simon;A. M. Ghez;A. M. Ghez;Ch. Leinert;L. Cassar

  461
  Citations

• The Accelerations of Stars Orbiting the Milky Way's Central Black Hole

  A. Ghez;M. Morris;E. E. Becklin;T. Kremenek

  458
  Citations

• First Light Adaptive Optics Images from the Keck II Telescope : A New Era of High Angular Resolution Imagery

  P. Wizinowich;D. S. Acton;C. Shelton;P. Stomski

  436
  Citations

• An Improved Distance and Mass Estimate for Sgr A* from a Multistar Orbit Analysis

  A. Boehle;A. M. Ghez;R. Schödel;L. Meyer

  386
  Citations

• Variable Infrared Emission from the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

  A. M. Ghez;S. A. Wright;K. Matthews;D. Thompson

  380
  Citations

• STELLAR POPULATIONS IN THE CENTRAL 0.5 pc OF THE GALAXY. II. THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION

  J. R. Lu;T. Do;A. M. Ghez;M. R. Morris

  339
  Citations

• A DISK OF YOUNG STARS AT THE GALACTIC CENTER AS DETERMINED BY INDIVIDUAL STELLAR ORBITS

  J. R. Lu;A. M. Ghez;S. D. Hornstein;S. D. Hornstein;M. R. Morris

  329
  Citations

• A Test of Pre-Main Sequence Evolutionary Models Across the Stellar/Substellar Boundary Based on Spectra of the Young Quadruple GG Tau

  Russel J. White;Andrea M. Ghez;Iain N. Reid;Greg Schultz

  327
  Citations

• The Multiplicity of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in Southern Star-forming Regions

  A. M. Ghez;D. W. McCarthy;D. W. McCarthy;J. L. Patience;T. L. Beck;T. L. Beck

  314
  Citations

• IMPROVING GALACTIC CENTER ASTROMETRY BY REDUCING THE EFFECTS OF GEOMETRIC DISTORTION

  S. Yelda;J. R. Lu;A. M. Ghez;W. Clarkson;W. Clarkson

  312
  Citations

• An X-ray, IR, and Submillimeter Flare of Sagittarius A*

  D. P. Marrone;F. K. Baganoff;M. R. Morris;J. M. Moran

  297
  Citations

• STELLAR COMPANIONS TO STARS WITH PLANETS

  J. Patience;J. Patience;R. J. White;A. M. Ghez;C. McCabe

  185
  Citations