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  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Laura Ferrarese is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions across related subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist's work extensively covers the areas of galaxies formation, evolution, and phenomena, as well as broader topics in astronomy and astrophysical research. Their research topics include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astrophysics and star formation studies, astrophysical phenomena and observations, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, and adaptive optics with wavefront sensing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laura Ferrarese include:

  • Patrick Côté
  • Eric W. Peng
  • Jean-Charles Cuillandre
  • Joel Roediger
  • Stephen Gwyn

They have published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals and venues. Among the prominent publication venues, the most frequent are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Recent significant papers include:

  • "The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIV. The Discovery of Low-mass Galaxies and a New Galaxy Catalog in the Core of the Virgo Cluster", 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Performance of NIRCam on JWST in Flight", 2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • "The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. I. Instrument Overview and In-flight Performance", 2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • "A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE)", 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIV. Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster", 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Laura Ferrarese's research involves considerable collaboration with other scientists, including Patrick Côté, Eric W. Peng, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Joel Roediger, and Stephen Gwyn, reflecting a broad network in their field of study.

In recognition of contributions to science, they were awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • A Fundamental Relation Between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies

    Laura Ferrarese;Laura Ferrarese;David Merritt

  • Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant

    Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore;Barry F. Madore;Brad K. Gibson;Laura Ferrarese

  • CENTRAL MASSES AND BROAD-LINE REGION SIZES OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. II. A HOMOGENEOUS ANALYSIS OF A LARGE REVERBERATION-MAPPING DATABASE

    Bradley M Peterson;Laura Ferrarese;K M Gilbert;K M Gilbert;S Kaspi;S Kaspi

  • Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Past, Present and Future Research

    Laura Ferrarese;Laura Ferrarese;Holland Ford

  • Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the M-sigma Relationship for AGNs

    Christopher A. Onken;Laura Ferrarese;David Merritt;Bradley M. Peterson

  • The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVIII. Combining the Constraints on the Hubble Constant

    Jeremy R Mould;John P Huchra;Wendy L Freedman;Robert C Kennicutt Jr

  • The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVIII. Combining the Constraints on the Hubble Constant

    Jeremy R. Mould;John P. Huchra;Wendy L. Freedman;Robert C. Kennicutt

  • Beyond the bulge: a fundamental relation between supermassive black holes and dark matter halos

    Laura Ferrarese

  • The Hubble Space Telescope Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. 1: The discovery of Cepheids and a new distance to M81

    Wendy L. Freedman;Shaun M. Hughes;Barry F. Madore;Jeremy R. Mould

  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. SBF Distance Catalog and the Three-Dimensional Structure of the Virgo Cluster

    Simona Mei;Simona Mei;John P. Blakeslee;Patrick Côté;John L. Tonry

  • Distance to the Virgo cluster galaxy M100 from Hubble Space Telescope observations of Cepheids

    Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore;Jeremy R. Mould;Robert Hill

  • Supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. II. Calibration of the black hole mass-velocity dispersion relationship for active galactic nuclei

    Christopher A. Onken;Laura Ferrarese;David Merritt;David Merritt;Bradley M. Peterson

  • The M(BH)-Sigma Relation for Supermassive Black Holes

    David Merritt;Laura Ferrarese

  • The ACS Virgo Cluster survey. VI. Isophotal analysis and the structure of early-type galaxies

    Laura Ferrarese;Patrick Côté;Andrés Jordán;Andrés Jordán;Eric W. Peng

  • The M•-σ Relation for Supermassive Black Holes

    David Merritt;Laura Ferrarese

  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VIII. The Nuclei of Early-Type Galaxies*

    Patrick Côté;Slawomir Piatek;Laura Ferrarese;Andrés Jordán;Andrés Jordán

  • Black Hole Demographics from the M(BH)-sigma Relation

    David Merritt;Laura Ferrarese

  • Black hole demographics from the M● − σ relation

    David Merritt;Laura Ferrarese

  • The acs virgo cluster survey. IX. The color distributions of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies

    Eric W. Peng;Eric W. Peng;Eric W. Peng;Andrés Jordán;Andrés Jordán;Patrick Côté;John P. Blakeslee

  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. V. Measurement and Recalibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuations and a Precise Value of the Fornax-Virgo Relative Distance

    John P. Blakeslee;John P. Blakeslee;Andrés Jordán;Andrés Jordán;Simona Mei;Simona Mei;Patrick Côté

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Côté
Patrick Côté National Research Council Canada
Simona Mei
Simona Mei Université Paris Cité
John P. Blakeslee
John P. Blakeslee National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab
Andrés Jordán
Andrés Jordán Adolfo Ibáñez University
Eric W. Peng
Eric W. Peng Peking University
Wendy L. Freedman
Wendy L. Freedman University of Chicago
Barry F. Madore
Barry F. Madore Carnegie Institution for Science
Pierre-Alain Duc
Pierre-Alain Duc University of Strasbourg
Alessandro Boselli
Alessandro Boselli Aix-Marseille University
David Merritt
David Merritt Rochester Institute of Technology

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