Office Address:

Department of Physics and Astronomy
York University, 4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

Phone: 416-736-2100 x77752
FAX: 416-736-5516

E-mail: phall@yorku.ca
WWW URL: http://www.yorku.ca/phall/

Education

• Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Arizona, January 5, 1998

  Thesis: An Optical-Infrared Study of Radio-Loud Quasar Environments

  Advisor: Richard F. Green

• B.A. Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley, May 1990

• B.A. Physics, University of California at Berkeley, May 1990

Employment History

• 7/20-present
  York University Department of Physics & Astronomy Chair
  

• 7/16-present
  York University Full Professor
  

• 7/14-6/17, 7/19-6/20
  York University Department of Physics & Astronomy Undergraduate Program Director
  

• 7/09-7/16
  York University Associate Professor
  

• 7/04-6/09
  York University Assistant Professor
  

• 10/03-6/04
  Princeton University Observatory Research Associate
  

• 10/00-9/03
  P. Universidad Catolica Investigador Asociado & Princeton University Observatory Research Associate
  

• 1/98-9/00
  University of Toronto Post-Doctoral Fellow
  
  (Supervisors: H. K. C. Yee and R. Carlberg)

• 6/94-12/97
  University of Arizona Graduate Research Assistant
  
  (Supervisor: Richard F. Green)

• 9/93-5/94
  University of Arizona Graduate Teaching Assistant in Astronomy
  
  (Supervisors: Dr. Jill Bechtold and Dr. Phil Pinto)

• 9/90-8/93
  University of Arizona Graduate Research Assistant
  
  (Supervisors: Richard F. Green and Patrick S. Osmer)

• 6/89-8/89
  University of Wyoming Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant
  
  (Supervisor: Earl J. Spillar)

Research Grants Obtained as Principal Investigator

• 5/24-4/28
  NSERC Discovery Grant: The Physics of Quasars and Quasar Winds: Spectroscopy from SDSS-V and Beyond
  

• 9/18-2/19
  NSERC Engage Grant: Integrating an Analytical Business Intelligence Module into the Medical Confidence Machine Learning System
  

• 5/17-4/23
  NSERC Discovery Grant: Constraining the Properties of Quasars and their Outflows Using Variability
  

• 5/12-4/17
  NSERC Discovery Grant: Understanding quasar outflows
  

• 7/09-6/14
  Ontario Early Researcher Award: Outflows from disks of matter orbiting supermassive black holes
  

• 5/07-4/12
  NSERC Discovery Grant: Connections Between Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Bulges
  

• 5/05-4/07
  NSERC Discovery Grant: Intrinsic Absorption in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars
  

• 7/04-7/06
  (Approved but Declined) NSF Extragalactic Astronomy Grant: Intrinsic Absorption in SDSS Quasars
  

• 9/03-9/04
  XMM-Newton A02 program: X-rays from Extreme Broad Absorption Line Quasars
  ($38,000; Budgetary PI: Dr. Mike Brotherton)

• 5/03-4/04
  A Conference on Active Galactic Nuclei Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  ($6,000 to support the attendance of postdocs and graduate & undergraduate students actively working in the field; co-PI with Dr. Gordon Richards)

• 12/02-12/03
  Chandra A04 program: X-rays from Extreme Broad Absorption Line Quasars
  ($35,000; Budgetary PI: Dr. Mike Brotherton)

• 3/01-2/03
  Chilean FONDECYT Research Grant: Toward an Unbiased View of Active Galactic Nuclei:
  
  Infrared Selection and Low Luminosities at High Redshift ($25,000)
  

Refereed Publications (Key: First Author; Heavy Involvement; Some Contribution)

In Preparation

Submitted

• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Insights on Maximizing Efficiency in Lag Measurements and Black-Hole Masses, Homayouni et al., ApJ, submitted
• The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: A Kinematically Variable Broad-Line Region and Consequences for Masses of Luminous Quasars, Fries et al., ApJ, submitted
• The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Multi-Line Dynamical Modeling of a Highly Variable Active Galactic Nucleus with Decade-Long Light Curves, Stone et al., ApJ, submitted
• Understanding the Broad-line Region of Active Galactic Nuclei with Photoionization. I. the Moderate-Accretion Regime, Wu et al., ApJ, submitted

In Press

Published

• High-quality Extragalactic Legacy-field Monitoring (HELM) with DECam, Zhuang, et al. 2024, ApJS, 274, 42
• AGN STORM 2. IX. Studying the dynamics of the ionized obscurer in Mrk 817 with high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, Zaidouni, et al. 2024, ApJ, 974, 91
• The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: C IV BAL Acceleration in the Quasar SBS 1408+544, Wheatley, Grier, Hall, Brandt, Lotz, Schneider, Trump, Seaton, et al. 2024, ApJ, 968, 9 (Press release)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results, Shen, et al. 2024, ApJS, 272, 26, 32pp
• Quasar Winds Caught on Acceleration and Deceleration, Yi, Hall, et al. 2024, ApJS, 271, 61
• Quasar Outflow Deceleration or Acceleration: Predictions and a Search, Hall, Weiss, Brandt & Mulholland 2024, MNRAS, 528, 6496-6516
• AGN STORM 2. V. Anomalous Behavior of the CIV Light Curve in Mrk 817, Homayouni, et al. 2024, ApJ, 963, 123
• AGN STORM 2. VI. Mapping Temperature Fluctuations in the Accretion Disk of Mrk 817, Neustadt, et al. 2024, ApJ, 961, 219
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Investigation of Continuum Lag Dependence on Broad-Line Contamination and Quasar Properties, Sharp, et al. 2024, ApJ, 961, 93

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  2023

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• AGN STORM 2. IV. Swift X-ray and ultraviolet/optical monitoring of Mrk 817, Cackett, et al. 2023, ApJ, 958, 195
• Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei XIII. Ultraviolet Time Lag of H-beta Emission in Mrk 142, Khatu et al. 2023, ApJ, 958, 127
• Correlated X-ray and UV absorption within the accretion disk wind of the active galactic nucleus PG 1126-041, Giustini et al. 2023, A&A, 679, 73
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: The Black Hole Mass-Stellar Mass Relations at 0.2 < z < 0.8, Li et al. 2023, ApJ, 954, 173
• The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V, Almeida, et al.\ 2023, ApJS, 267, 44
• AGN STORM 2: II. Ultraviolet Observations of Mrk 817 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, Homayouni et al. 2023, ApJ, 948, 85
• The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Unusual Broad-Line Variability in a Luminous Quasar, Fries et al. 2023, ApJ, 948, 5
• Revisiting Emission-Line Measurement Methods for Narrow-Line Active Galactic Nuclei, Khatu et al. 2023, PASP, 135, 044504
• AGN STORM 2: III. A NICER view of the variable X-ray obscurer in Mrk 817, Partington et al. 2023, ApJ, 947, 2

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  2022

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• VLT/UVES Observation of the SDSS J2357-0048 Outflow, Byun, Arav, Hall et al. 2022, MNRAS, 517, 1048-1057
• Sensitive Chandra coverage of a representative sample of weak-line quasars: revealing the full range of X-ray properties, Ni et al. 2022, MNRAS, 511, 5251-5264
• The Farthest Quasar Mini-BAL Outflow from its Central Source: VLT/UVES Observation of SDSS J0242+0049, Byun, Arav & Hall 2022, ApJ, 927, 176
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: UV-Optical Accretion Disk Measurements with Hubble Space Telescope, Homayouni et al. 2022, ApJ, 926, 225
• Obscured active galactic nuclei and the need for optical to near-infrared, massively multiplexed, spectroscopic facilities, Petric et al. 2022, Astronomische Nachrichten, 343, e210053

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  2021

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• AGN STORM 2: I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817, Kara et al. 2021, ApJ, 922, 151
• Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity-Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548, Horne et al. 2021, ApJ, 907, 76

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  2020

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• Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-Line Region Modeling of NGC 5548, Williams et al. 2020, ApJ, 902, 74
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Estimating Masses of Black Holes in Quasars with Single-Epoch Spectroscopy, Dalla Bonta et al. 2020, ApJ, 903:112 (28pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: How Broad Emission Line Widths Change When Luminosity Changes, Wang et al. 2020, ApJ, 903:51 (30pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Mg II Lag Results from Four Years of Monitoring, Homayouni et al. 2020, ApJ, 901:55 (14pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Photometric g and i Light Curves, Kinemuchi, Hall, et al. 2020, ApJS, 250:10 (14pp)
• Survey of Extremely High Velocity Outflows in Quasars, Rodriguez Hidalgo, Khatri, Hall, Haas, Quintero, Khatu, Kowash & Murray 2020, ApJ, 896, 151
• An Extreme X-ray Variability Event of a Weak-Line Quasar, Ni, Brandt, Yi, Luo, Timlin, Hall, Liu, Plotkin, Shemmer, Vito & Wu 2020, ApJL, 889, L37

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  2019

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• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Initial C IV Lag Results from Four Years of Data, Grier, Shen, Horne, Brandt, Trump, Hall, et al. 2019, ApJ, 887:1
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Accretion and Broad Emission Line Physics from a Hypervariable Quasar, Dexter, Xin, Shen, Grier, Liu, Gezari, McGreer, Brandt, Hall, Horne, Simm, Merloni, Green, Vivek, Trump, Homayouni, Peterson & Schneider 2019, ApJ, 885:44
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Comparison of Lag Measurement Methods with Simulated Observations, Li, Shen, Brandt, Grier, Hall, Ho, Homayouni, Horne, Schneider, Trump, Starkey et al. 2019, ApJ, 884:119 (21pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Improving Lag Detection with an Extended Multi-Year Baseline, Shen et al. 2019, ApJL, 883, L14
• Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum, Kriss et al. 2019, ApJ, 881, 153
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Accretion-Disk Sizes From Continuum Lags, Homayouni, Trump, Grier, Shen, Brandt, Starkey, Hall, Horne, Kinemuchi, Li, McGreer, Sun, Ho, & Schneider 2019, ApJ, 880, 126
• The Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey in the Pan-STARRS 1 Footprint (PS-ELQS), Schindler, Fan, Huang, Yue, Yang, Hall, Wenzl, Hughes, Litke, & Rees 2019, ApJS, 243, 5
• Variability Of Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars Based On Multi-Epoch Spectra From The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Yi, Brandt, Hall, Vivek, Grier, Filiz Ak, Schneider, & McGraw 2019, ApJS, 242, 28
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Sample Characterization, Shen, Hall, Horne, Zhu, McGreer, Simm, Trump, Kinemuchi, Brandt, Green, Grier, Guo, Ho, Homayouni, Jiang, Li, Morganson, Petitjean, Richards, Schneider, Starkey, Wang, Chambers, Kaiser, Kudritzki, Magnier, & Waters 2019, ApJS, 241, 34 (1tpp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Systematic Investigations of Short-Timescale C IV Broad Absorption Line Variability, Hemler, Grier, Brandt, Hall, Horne, Shen, Trump, Schneider, Vivek, Bizyaev, Oravetz, Oravetz, & Pan 2019, ApJ, 872, 21 (21pp)
• X-ray and multi-epoch optical/UV investigations of BAL to non-BAL quasar transformations, Sameer, Brandt, Anderson, Filiz Ak, Grier, Hall, Vivek, Ahmed, Luo, Myers, Rodriguez Hidalgo, Ruan, & Schneider 2019, MNRAS, 482, 1121 (14pp)

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  2018

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• Connecting the X-ray properties of weak-line and typical quasars: testing for a geometrically thick accretion disk, Ni, Brandt, Luo, Hall, et al. 2018, MNRAS, 480, 5184 (19pp)
• Redshifted broad absorption line quasars found via machine-learned spectral similarity, Reis, Poznanski, & Hall 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3889 (9pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Quasar Host Galaxies at z < 0.8 from Image Decomposition, Yue, Jiang, Shen, Hall, et al. 2018, ApJ, 863, 21 (17pp)
• Emergence and Variability of Broad Absorption Line Quasar Outflows, Rogerson, Hall, Ahmed, Rodriguez Hidalgo, Brandt & Filiz Ak 2018, ApJ, 862, 1 (22p)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: fourteenth data release, Paris et al. 2018, A&A, 613, A51 (17pp)
• The Fourteenth Data Release Of The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data From The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey And From The Second Phase Of The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, Abolfathi et al. 2018, ApJS, 235:42 (19pp)
• Spectroscopic characterization of galaxy clusters in RCS-1: spectroscopic confirmation, redshift accuracy, and dynamical mass-richness relation, Gilbank et al. 2018, MNRAS, 476, 1991-2012
• Non-Blackbody Disks Can Help Explain Inferred AGN Accretion Disk Sizes, Hall, Sarrouh & Horne 2018, ApJ, 854:93 (10pp)

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  2017

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• The Time-Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Target Selection for Repeat Spectroscopy, MacLeod et al. 2017, AJ, 155, 1
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey reverberation mapping project: H-alpha and H-beta reverberation measurements from first-year spectroscopy and photometry, Grier et al. 2017, ApJ, 851, 1
• Optical linear polarization measurements of quasars obtained with the 3.6m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Hutsemekers, Hall & Sluse 2017, A&A, 606, A101
• Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VII. Understanding the UV anomaly in NGC 5548 with X-Ray Spectroscopy, Mathur et al. 2017, ApJ, 846, 55
• Broad absorption line disappearance and emergence using multiple-epoch spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, McGraw, S. M., Brandt, W. N., Grier, C. J., Filiz Ak, N., Hall, P. B., et al. 2017, MNRAS, 469, 3163
• X-ray Insights into the Nature of Quasars with Redshifted Broad Absorption Lines, Zhang, N-X., Brandt, W. N., Ahmed, N. S., Hall, P. B., et al. 2017, ApJ, 839, 101
• Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. V. Optical Spectroscopic Campaign and Emission-Line Analysis for NGC 5548, Pei et al. 2017, ApJ, 837, 131
• Magnetohydrodynamic Disc Winds and Line Width Distributions II, Chajet & Hall 2017, MNRAS, 465, 1741
• Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. VI. Reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548 , Starkey et al. 2017, ApJ, 836, 65
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: twelfth data release, Paris et al. 2017, A&A, 597, A79

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  2016

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• C IV Broad Absorption Line Acceleration in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars, Grier, Brandt, Hall, et al. 2016, ApJ, 824, 130 (22pp)
• Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. IV. Anomalous Behavior of the Broad Ultraviolet Emission Lines in NGC 5548, Goad et al. 2016, ApJ, 824, 11 (10pp)
• Vanishing Absorption and Blueshifted Emission in FeLoBAL Quasars, Rafiee, Pirkola, Hall, Galati, Rogerson, & Ameri 2016, MNRAS 457, 2472-2485
• Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. III. Optical Continuum Emission and Broad-Band Time Delays in NGC 5548, Fausnaugh et al. 2016, ApJ, 821, 56 (25pp)
• Multi-Epoch Observations of Extremely High-Velocity Emergent Broad Absorption, Rogerson, Hall, Rodriguez Hidalgo, Pirkola, Brandt & Filiz Ak 2016, MNRAS 457, 405-420
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: First Broad-Line H-beta and Mg II Lags at z>=0.3 from Six-Month Spectroscopy, Shen et al. 2016, ApJ, 818, 30 (17pp)

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  2015

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• Demonstrating Martian Gravity, Pirkola & Hall 2015, Physics Education, 50 (6), 643-645
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Ensemble Spectroscopic Variability of Quasar Broad Emission Lines, Sun et al. 2015, ApJ, 811, 42 (19pp)
• Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. II. Swift and HST Reverberation Mapping of the Accretion Disk of NGC 5548, Edelson et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 129 (14pp)
• Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. I. Ultraviolet observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on Hubble Space Telescope, De Rosa et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 128 (15pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Rapid C IV Broad Absorption Line Variability, Grier, Hall et al. 2015, ApJ, 806, 111 (15pp)
• Mining for Dust in Type 1 Quasars, Krawczyk et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 203 (20pp)
• X-ray insights into the nature of PHL 1811 analogs and weak emission-line quasars: unification with a geometrically thick accretion disk?, Luo, Brandt, Hall et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 122 (25p)
• Spectroscopic Needs for Imaging Dark Energy Experiments, Newman et al. 2015, Astroparticle Physics 63, 81-100
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project, Shen, Brandt, Dawson, Hall et al. 2015, ApJS, 616:4 (25pp)

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  2014

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• The Dependence of C IV Broad Absorption Line Properties on Accompanying Si IV and Al III Absorption: Relating Quasar-Wind Ionization Levels, Kinematics, and Column Densities, Filiz Ak, Brandt, Hall et al. 2014, ApJ, 791, 88 (22pp)
• Modeling spikes in quasar accretion disc temperature profiles, Hall, Noordeh, Chajet, Weiss & Nixon 2014, MNRAS, 442, 1090
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: tenth data release, Paris et al. 2014, A&A, 563, A54, 15 pp.
• Simulating the Phases of the Moon Shortly After Its Formation, Noordeh, Hall & Cuk 2014, The Physics Teacher, 52, 239

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  2013

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• The Naked-eye Optical Transient OT 120926, Zhao, Hall, Delaney & Sandal 2013, JAAVSO, 41, 338-347
• The X-ray Spectrum and Spectral Energy Distribution of FIRST J155633.8+351758: A LoBAL Quasar with a Probable Polar Outflow, Berrington et al. 2013, MNRAS, 436, 3321-3330
• Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multi-Year Timescales in a Large Quasar Sample, Filiz Ak, Brandt, Hall, et al. 2013, ApJ, 777, 168 (29pp)
• Broad Absorption Line Quasars with Redshifted Troughs: High-Velocity Infall or Rotationally Dominated Outflows?, Hall et al., MNRAS, 434, 222-256
• MHD Disc Winds and Line Width Distributions, Chajet & Hall 2013, MNRAS, 429, 3214-3229
• The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III, Dawson et al. 2013, AJ, 145, 10 (41pp)
• X-ray and Multiwavelength Insights into the Inner Structure of High-Luminosity Double-Peaked Emitters, Luo et al. 2013, MNRAS, 429, 1479-1493

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  2012

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• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release, Paris et al., A&A 2012, 548, 66 (28pp)
• Broad Absorption Line Disappearance on Multi-Year Timescales in a Large Quasar Sample, Filiz Ak, Brandt, Hall et al. 2012, ApJ, 757, 114 (19pp)
• Galaxies with Background QSOs, I: A Search for Strong Galactic H-alpha Lines, York et al. 2012, MNRAS, 423, 3692-3708
• A Description of Quasar Variability Measured Using Repeated SDSS and POSS Imaging, MacLeod et al. 2012, ApJ, 753, 106 (21pp)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. V. Final Catalog from the Seventh Data Release, Inada et al. 2012, AJ, 143, 119 (15pp)
• Investigating Mg II Absorption in Paired Quasar Sight-Lines, Rogerson & Hall 2012, MNRAS, 421, 971-982
• X-ray and Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at Low Redshift, Wu et al. 2012, ApJ, 747:10 (21pp)
• Direct Evidence for Termination of Star Formation by Radiatively Driven Outflows in Reddened QSOs, Farrah et al. 2012, ApJ, 745:178 (21pp)

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  2011

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• C IV Emission and the Ultraviolet through X-ray Spectral Energy Distribution of Radio-Quiet Quasars, Kruczek et al. 2011, AJ, 142, 130-141
• Biases in the Quasar Mass-Luminosity Plane, Rafiee & Hall 2011, MNRAS, 415, 2932-2941
• A Population of Intrinsically X-ray Weak Quasars: PHL 1811 Analogs at High Redshift, Wu, Brandt, Hall, et al. 2011, ApJ, 736:28 (21pp)
• A Catalog of Quasar Properties from SDSS DR7, Shen et al. 2011, ApJS, 194:45 (21pp)
• Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Spectra at 0.7 < z < 2, Rafiee & Hall 2011, ApJS, 194:42 (15pp)
• Unification of Luminous Type 1 Quasars through CIV Emission, Richards et al. 2011, AJ, 141, 167 (16pp)
• Implications of Dramatic Broad Absorption Line Variability in the Quasar FBQS J1408+3054, Hall, Anosov et al. 2011, MNRAS, 411, 2653-2666
• The Extreme High-Velocity Outflow in Quasar PG0935+417, Rodriguez Hidalgo, Hamann & Hall 2011, MNRAS, 411, 247-259
• Chandra Observations of Two Unusual BAL Quasars, Rogerson, Hall et al. 2011, New Astronomy, 16, 128-137

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  2010

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• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search IV. Statistical Lens Sample from the Fifth Data Release, Inada et al. 2010, AJ, 140, 403-415
• SDSS J094604.90+183541.8: A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z=4.8, McGreer, Hall et al. 2010, AJ, 140, 370-378
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release, Schneider, Richards, Hall et al. 2010, AJ, 139, 2360-2373
• Eight New Quasar Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search, Kayo, Inada, Oguri, Morokuma, Hall, Kochanek & Schneider, AJ, 139, 1614-1621
• Detecting active comets in the SDSS, Solontoi et al. 2010, Icarus, 205, 605-618
• Optically Selected BL Lacertae Candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven, Plotkin et al. 2010, AJ, 139, 390-414

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  2009

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• A Public, K-Selected, Optical-to-Near-Infrared Catalog of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) from the Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC), Taylor et al. 2009, ApJS, 183, 295-319
• The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Abazajian et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543-558
• Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties, Shen et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1656-1673
• Clustering of Low-Redshift (z<2.2) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Ross et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1634-1655
• GRB 080503: Implications of a Naked Short Gamma-Ray Burst Dominated by Extended Emission, Perley et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 1871-1885
• A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5, Gibson, Jiang, Brandt, Hall, et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 758-777
• Observations of the Naked-Eye GRB 080319B: Implications of Nature's Brightest Explosion, Bloom et al. 2009, ApJ, 691, 723-737
• Rapidly Spinning Black Holes: An Open Question, Rafiee & Hall 2009, ApJ, 691, 426-430

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  2008

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• Evolution and geometry of quasars: constraints from the scatter in broad-line widths, Fine et al. 2008, MNRAS, 390, 1413
• Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC): Wide K-band Imaging, Photometric Catalogs, Clustering and Physical Properties of Galaxies at z~2, Blanc et al. 2008, ApJ, 681, 1099
• Narrow associated QSO absorbers: clustering, outflows and the line-of-sight proximity effect, Wild et al. 2008, MNRAS, 388, 227-241
• A Nearby Old Halo White Dwarf Candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Hall et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 76-82
• A Large Sample of BL Lac Objects from the SDSS and FIRST, Plotkin, Anderson, Hall et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 2453-2469
• Additional Ultracool White Dwarfs Found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Harris et al. 2008, ApJ, 679, 697-703
• Average Properties of a Large Sample of z(abs)~z(em) Mg II Absorption Line Systems, Vanden Berk et al. 2008, ApJ, 679, 239-259
• C_2 in Peculiar DQ White Dwarfs, Hall & Maxwell 2008, ApJ, 678, 1292-1297
• Quasar Clustering at 25kpc/h from a Complete Sample of Binaries, Myers et al. 2008, ApJ, 678, 635-646
• Do Broad Absorption Line Quasars Live in Different Environments from Ordinary Quasars?, Shen, Strauss, Hall et al. 2008, ApJ, 677, 858-862
• The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2008, ApJS, 175, 297-313
• The Black Hole-Bulge Relationship in Luminous Broad-Line Active Galactic Nuclei and Host Galaxies, Shen, Vanden Berk, Schneider and Hall 2008, AJ, 135, 928-946
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens Sample from the Third Data Release, Inada et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 496-511
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. III. Constraints on Dark Energy from the Third Data Release Quasar Lens Catalog, Oguri et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 512-519

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  2007

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• On the Spectral Evolution of Cool, Helium-Atmosphere White Dwarfs: Detailed Spectroscopic and Photometric Analysis of DZ Stars, Dufour et al. 2007, ApJ, 663, 1291-1308
• The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007, ApJS, 172, 634-644
• A New Quadruply Lensed Quasar: SDSSJ125107.57+293540.5, Kayo et al. 2007, AJ, 134, 1515-1521
• Acceleration and Substructure Constraints in a Quasar Outflow, Hall, Sadavoy et al. 2007, ApJ, 665, 174-186
• The Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC): Deep Near-Infrared Imaging and the Selection of Distant Galaxies, Quadri et al. 2007, AJ, 134, 1103-1117
• Near-Infrared Properties of Moderate-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: Halo Occupation Number, Mass-to-Light Ratios and Omega_M, Muzzin, A., Yee, H. K. C., Hall, P. B., and Lin, H., 2007, ApJ, 663, 150-163
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release, Schneider, Hall et al. 2007, AJ, 134, 102-117
• A Systematic Search for High Surface Brightness Giant Arcs in a Sloan Digital Sky Survey Cluster Sample, Estrada et al. 2007, ApJ, 660, 1176-1185
• Near-Infrared Properties of Moderate-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: Luminosity Functions and Density Profiles, Muzzin, A., Yee, H. K. C., Hall, P. B., Ellingson, E., and Lin, H., 2007, ApJ, 659, 1106-1124
• Clustering of High Redshift (z>2.9) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Shen et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 2222-2241
• The UV Properties of SDSS-Selected Quasars, Trammell et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 1780-1794
• A Quasar with Broad Absorption in the Balmer Lines, Hall 2007, AJ, 133, 1271-1274
• Broad Absorption Line Variability in Repeat Quasar Observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Lundgren, Wilhite, Brunner, Hall et al. 2007, ApJ, 656, 73-83
• Cosmological Constraints from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey, Gladders et al. 2007, ApJ, 655, 128-134
• Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Fourteen Low-Redshift Quasars, Ganguly et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 479
• A Large, Uniform Sample of X-ray Emitting AGN from the ROSAT All-Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: the Data Release 5 Sample, Anderson et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 313
• Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J133222.62+034739.9, Morokuma et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 214
• Two New Gravitationally Lensed Double Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Inada et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 206

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  2006

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• Chandra Observations of Red Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars, Hall et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 1977-1988
• Spectral Energy Distributions and Multiwavelength Selection of Type 1 Quasars, Richards et al. 2006b, ApJS, 166, 470
• Chandra Observations of SDSS J1004+4112: Constraints on the Lensing Cluster and Anomalous X-Ray Flux Ratios of the Quadruply Imaged Quasar, Ota et al. 2006, ApJ, 647, 215
• A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release, Trump, Hall et al. 2006, ApJS, 165, 1
• Variable Faint Optical Sources Discovered by Comparing POSS and SDSS Catalogs, Sesar et al. 2005, AJ, 131, 2801
• The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three, Richards et al. 2006a, AJ, 131, 2766
• Average Extinction Curves and Relative Abundances for QSO Absorption Line Systems at 1 < z < 2 , York et al. 2006, MNRAS, 367, 945
• The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2006, ApJS, 162, 38
• Spectral Decomposition of Broad-Line AGNs and Host Galaxies, Vanden Berk et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 84
• SDSS J102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar, Pindor et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 41
• Binary Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Evidence for Excess Clustering on Small Scales, Hennawi et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 1

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  2005

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• Ultracompact AM CVn Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Three Candidates Plus the First Confirmed Eclipsing System, Anderson et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 2230
• SDSS J024634.11-082536.2: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Inada et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 1967
• The Optical-Infrared Colors of CORALS QSOs: Searching for Dust Reddening Associated with High Redshift Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems, Ellison, Hall & Lira 2005, AJ, 130, 1345
• New Low Accretion-Rate Magnetic Binary Systems and their Significance for the Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables, Schmidt et al. 2005, ApJ, 630, 1037
• The SDSS View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey, Jester et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 873
• Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS II. The Second and Third Data Releases, Vanlandingham et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 734
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog III. Third Data Release , Schneider, Hall et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 367
• Discovery of a Fifth Image of the Large Separation Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112, Inada et al. 2005, PASJ, 57, L7
• Optically Identified BL Lacertae Objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Collinge, Strauss, Hall et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2542
• An Empirical Calibration of the Completeness of the SDSS Quasar Survey, Vanden Berk et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2047
• Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I. Sample Selection, Hao et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1783
• Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II. Emission-Line Luminosity Function, Hao et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1795
• Discovery of Two Gravitationally Lensed Quasars with Image Separations of 3 Arcseconds from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Oguri et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, 106
• The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Abazajian et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1755
• Candidate Type II Quasars from the SDSS III. Spectropolarimetry Reveals Hidden Type I Nuclei, Zakamska et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1212
• X-ray Insights Into Interpreting CIV Blueshifts and Optical/UV Continua, Gallagher, Richards, Hall et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 567

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  2004

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• RCS043938-2904.9: A New Rich Cluster of Galaxies at z=0.951, Barrientos, F., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, L17
• An Empirical Algorithm for Broad-band Photometric Redshifts of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Weinstein et al. 2004, ApJS, 155, 243
• Spectral Classification of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey First Data Release: Eigenspectra, Redshift and Luminosity Effects, Yip, C.-W. et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2603
• Dust Reddening in SDSS Quasars, Hopkins, Strauss, Hall et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 1112
• A Quasar Without Broad Lyman-alpha Emission, Hall et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 534
• Nitrogen Enriched Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey First Data Release, Bentz, Hall & Osmer 2004, AJ, 128, 561
• Microlensing of the Broad Emission Line Region in the Quadruple Lens SDSS J1004+4112, Richards et al. 2004, ApJ, 610, 679
• Detections of the 2175 Angstrom Dust Feature at 1.4<~z<~1.5 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Wang, Hall, Ge, Li, & Schneider 2004, ApJ, 609, 589
• The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Abazajian et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 502
• A Lyman-alpha-only AGN from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Hall et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 3146
• Conference Summary: AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Hall & Richards 2004, PASP, 116, 593 [reviewed by Ross McLure in The Observatory: A Review of Astronomy, vol. 125, no. 1184, pp. 59-60 (2005)]
• SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens, Oguri et al. 2004, PASJ, 56, 399
• The Ensemble Photometric Variability of ~25000 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Vanden Berk et al. 2004, ApJ, 601, 692
• VLT+UVES Spectroscopy of the Low-Ionization Intrinsic Absorber in SDSS J001130.56+005550.7, Hutsemekers, Hall & Brinkmann 2004, A&A, 415, 77; minor Erratum A&A, 422, 509

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  2003

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• Continuum and Emission Line Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars, Reichard, Richards, Hall et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2594
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release, Schneider, D. P., Fan, X., Hall, P. B., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2579
• The Host Galaxies of AGN, Kauffmann et al. 2003, MNRAS, 346, 1055
• Mass and dust in the disk of a spiral lens galaxy, Winn, Hall & Schechter 2003, ApJ, 597, 672
• SDSS White Dwarfs with Spectra Showing Atomic Oxygen and/or Carbon Lines, Liebert et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2521
• SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens, Johnston et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2281
• A Large, Uniform Sample of X-ray Emitting AGN: Selection Approach and an Initial Catalog from the ROSAT All-Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys, Anderson et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2209
• Candidate Type II Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Selection and Optical Properties of a Sample at 0.3 < z < 0.83, Zakamska, Strauss, Krolik, Collinge, Hall et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2125
• Double-Peaked Low-Ionization Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei, Strateva, Strauss, Hao, Schlegel, Hall et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1720
• The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Abazajian et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2081
• Gemini-South+FLAMINGOS Demonstration Science: Near-IR Spectroscopy of the z=5.77 Quasar SDSS J083643.85+005453.3, Stern, Hall, et al. 2003, ApJL, 596, L39
• Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS. The First Data Release, Schmidt et al. 2003, ApJ, 595, 1101
• Red and Reddened Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Richards, Hall et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1131
• SDSS J092455.87+021924.9: an Interesting Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Inada, N. et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 666
• An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Harris et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 1023
• The Incidence of Strong-Lensing Clusters in the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey, Gladders, Hoekstra, Yee, Hall & Barrientos 2003, ApJ, 593, 48
• VLT+UVES Observations of the CaII LoBAL Quasar SDSS J030000.56+004828.0, Hall, Hutsemekers et al. 2003, ApJ, 593, 189 (astro-ph/0301480)
• Peculiar Broad Absorption Line Quasars Found in DPOSS, Brunner, R. J., Hall, P. B., Djorgovski, S. G., 2003, AJ, 126, 53
• Optical and NIR Observations of the Afterglow of GRB 020813, Covino et al. 2003, A&AL, 404, L5 (astro-ph/0304171)
• A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release, Reichard, Richards, Schneider, Hall et al. 2003, AJ, 125, 1711
• Two Unusual Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables with Extreme Cyclotron Features Identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Szkody, Anderson, Schmidt, Hall et al. 2003, ApJ, 583, 902

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  2002

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• 2MASS J1315-2649: A High Proper Motion L Dwarf with Strong H-alpha Emission, Hall, P. B. 2002, ApJL 580, L77
• The BTC40 Survey for Quasars at 4.8 < z < 6 , Monier, E., Kennefick, J., Hall, P. B., Osmer, P., Smith, M., and Green, R. 2002, AJ, 124, 2971
• Optical and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by the FIRST Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , Ivezic, Z. et al. 2002, AJ, 124, 2364
• Faint High Latitude Carbon Stars Discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Methods and Initial Results, Margon, B. et al. 2002, AJ, 124, 1651
• The Redshift of a Lensing Galaxy in PMN J0134-0931, Hall, P. B., Richards, G. T., York, D. G., et al. 2002, ApJL, 575, L51
• Unusual Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Hall, P. B., Anderson, S. F., Strauss, M. A., York, D. G., et al. 2002, ApJS, 141, 267
• An Unusual Iron LoBAL Quasar Detected by ISOCAM, Duc, P.-A., Hall, P. B., et al. 2002, A&A, 389, L47 (astro-ph/0205022)
• Broad Emission Line Shifts in Quasars: An Orientation Measure for Radio-Quiet Quasars? , Richards, G. T., Vanden Berk, D., Reichard, T., Hall, P. B., Schneider, D., SubbaRao, M., Thakar, A., and York, D. 2002, AJ, 124, 1
• Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample, Richards, G. T. et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 2945
• A Measurement of Weak Lensing by Large-Scale Structure in Red-Sequence Cluster Survey Fields, Hoekstra, H., Yee, H. K. C., Gladders, M. D., Barrientos, L. F., Hall, P. B., and Infante, L., 2002, ApJ, 572, 55
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release, Schneider, D. P., Richards, G. T., Fan, X., Hall, P. B., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 567
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release, Stoughton et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 485
• Dynamically Close Galaxy Pairs in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution in the Galaxy Merger Rate at z<0.5 , Patton et al. 2002, ApJ, 565, 208
• 2MASSI J1315309-264951: An L Dwarf with Strong and Variable H-alpha Emission, Hall, P. B., 2002, ApJL, 564, L89

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  2001

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• Environment and Galaxy Evolution at Intermediate Redshift, Carlberg, R., Yee, H.K.C., Morris, S.L., Lin, H., Hall, P. B., Patton, D., Sawicki, M. and Shepherd, C. W. 2001, ApJ, 563, 736
• Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with VLA-FIRST Radio Detections, Menou, K., et al. 2001, ApJ, 561, 645
• The Galaxy Correlation Function in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey: Dependence on Colour, Luminosity and Redshift , Shepherd, C. W., Carlberg, R., Yee, H.K.C., Morris, S.L., Lin, H., Sawicki, M., Hall, P. B., and Patton, D. 2001, ApJ, 560, 72
• Photometric Redshifts from Reconstructed QSO Templates , Budavari et al. 2001, AJ, 122, 1163
• Photometric Redshifts of Quasars , Richards et al. 2001, AJ, 122, 1151
• Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Vanden Berk, D. E., et al. 2001, AJ, 122, 549
• Quasars in the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release, Barkhouse, W. A. & Hall, P. B. 2001, AJ, 121, 2843 (Erratum for Figures: AJ, 122, 496)
• Galaxies in the Fields of z~1.5 Radio-Loud Quasars, Hall, P. B., Sawicki, M., Martini, P., Finn, R. A., Pritchet, C. J., Osmer, P. S., McCarthy, D. W., Evans, A. S., Lin, H., & Hartwick, F. D. A. 2001, AJ, 121, 1840 (Note that one entry missing from Table 4 in the published version is available only at astro-ph; click on the paper title above to go there.)
• Multi-Epoch Multiwavelength Spectra and Models for Blazar 3C 279, Hartman, R. C., et al. 2001, ApJ, 553, 683
• Galaxy Groups at Intermediate Redshift, Carlberg, R., et al. 2001, ApJ, 552, 427
• Weak Lensing Study of Low Mass Galaxy Groups: Implications for Omega_M, Hoekstra, H., et al. 2001, ApJL, 548, 5

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  2000

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• Active Galactic Nuclei in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, Hall, P. B., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, H., Morris, S. L., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., Shepherd, C. W., Wirth, G. D. and Carlberg, R. G. 2000, AJ, 120, 2220 (astro-ph/0007167)
• Spectroscopic Gravitational Lens Candidates in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, Hall, P. B., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, H., Morris, S. L., Gladders, M. D., Carlberg, R. G., Patton, D. R., Sawicki, M., Shepherd, C. W., and Wirth, G. D. 2000, AJ, 120, 1660 (astro-ph/0006434)
• The CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey I. The Survey and the Catalog for the CNOC2 0223+00 Patch, Yee, H.K.C., Morris, S.L., Lin, H., Carlberg, R., Hall, P.B., Patton, D., Sawicki, M., Wirth, G.D., Ellingson, E., and Shepherd, C.W. 2000, ApJS, 129, 475 (astro-ph/0004026)
• Galaxy Clustering Evolution in the CNOC2 High Luminosity Sample, Carlberg, R., Yee, H.K.C., Morris, S.L., Lin, H., Hall, P.B., Patton, D., Sawicki, M., and Shepherd, C.W. 2000, ApJ, 542, 57
• CFHT AO Imaging of the CLASS Gravitational Lens System B1359+154, Rusin, D., Hall, P. B., Nichol, R. C., Marlow, D. R., Richards, A. M. S., and S. T. Myers 2000, ApJL, 533, L89 (astro-ph/9911420)
• The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI, Carlberg, R. G., Cohen, J. G., Patton, D. R., Blandford, R., Hogg, D. W., Yee, H. K. C., Morris, S. L., Lin, H., Cowie, L. L., Hu, E., Songaila, A., Hall, P. B., Sawicki, M., and Wirth, G. W. 2000, ApJL, 532, L1

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  1999

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  1998

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• A Deep Multicolor Survey IV. The Electronic Stellar Catalog, Osmer, P. S., Kennefick, J. D., Hall, P. B., and Green, R. F. 1998, ApJS, 119, 189 (astro-ph/9806366)
• An Optical/Near-Infrared Study of Radio-Loud Quasar Environments I. Methods and z=1--2 Observations, by Hall, P. B., Green, R. F., and Cohen, M. 1998, ApJS, 119, 1 (astro-ph/9806145)
• An Optical/Near-Infrared Study of Radio-Loud Quasar Environments II. Imaging Results, by Hall, P. B., and Green, R. F. 1998, ApJ, 507, 558 (astro-ph/9806151)
• Luminosity Functions and Number Counts of Blue Galaxies in a Deep Multicolor CCD Field Survey, by Liu, C.T., Green, R.F., Hall, P.B., and Osmer, P.S. 1998, AJ, 116, 1082
• An Optical/Near-Infrared Study of Radio-Loud Quasar Environments, by Hall, P. B. 1998, PASP 110, 880 (Dissertation Summary)
• The Rapid Decay of the Optical Emission From GRB 980326 and Its Possible Implications, by Groot, P. J., et al. 1998, ApJL, 502, L123
• Multiwavelength Observations of a Dramatic High Energy Flare in the Blazar 3C 279, by Wehrle, A. E., et al. 1998, ApJ 497, 178

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  1997

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• Deep Multicolor Quasar Survey III. Further Spectroscopy and the Faint Quasar Luminosity Function, by Kennefick, J. D., Osmer, P. S., Hall, P. B. and Green, R. F. 1997, AJ 114, 2269 (astro-ph/9708138)
• The Optical/Near-IR Colors of Broad Absorption Line Quasars, Including the Candidate Radio-Loud BAL Quasar 1556+3517, by Hall, P. B., Martini, P., DePoy, D., and Gatley, I. 1997, ApJL 484, L17 (astro-ph/9704182)
• X-ray Emission from the Host Clusters of Powerful AGN, by Hall, P. B., Ellingson, E. and Green, R. F., 1997, AJ 113, 1179 (astro-ph/9612241) Note that the entry for H 1821+643 in Table 2 Columns 2 and 3 should read 37.4+-5.7 and 16.6+-2.5, not 51.5+-10 and 22.9+-4.4.

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  1996

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• Deep Multicolor Quasar Survey I. Imaging Observations and Catalog of Stellar Objects by Hall, P. B., Osmer, P. S., Green, R. F., Porter, A. C., and Warren, S. J. 1996, ApJS 104, 185 (astro-ph/9512051)
• Deep Multicolor Quasar Survey II. Initial Spectroscopy and Comparison with Expected Number Counts by Hall, P. B., Osmer, P. S., Green, R. F., Porter, A. C., and Warren, S. J. 1996, ApJ 462, 614 (astro-ph/9512052) The published version does not have full-resolution figures due to printer's errors. An Erratum is available in PDF format: ApJ 471, 1073 (1996) A few minor additional errors have come to light: Quasar #33 in Table 1 should have a declination of +49 52 00.75, and some of the uncertainties in Tables 3 and 4 were computed incorrectly, though the differences are small and do not change the conclusions.

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  1995

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• Spectroscopic and Morphological Evidence that IRAS FSC 10214+4724 is a Gravitational Lens, by Close, L. M., Hall, P. B., Liu, C. T., and Hege, E. K. 1995, ApJL 452, L9.
• A ROSAT Search for X-ray Emission from Quasar Host Clusters, by Hall, P. B., Ellingson, E., Green, R. F., and Yee, H. K. C. 1995, AJ 110, 513. (astro-ph/9506029)

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  1992

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• Intensive Optical Monitoring of the BL Lac Object PKS 2155-304, Smith, P. S., Hall, P. B., Allen, R. A., Sitko, M. L. 1992, ApJ 400, 115.

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Selected Unrefereed Abstracts and Conference Proceedings

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• The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018, Hill, et al. 2018 (arXiv:1810.08695)
• SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy, Kollmeier, et al. 2017 (arXiv:1711.03234)
• The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe, McConnachie, et al. 2016 (arXiv:1606.00043)
• Monitoring Quasar Colour Variability in Stripe 82, Rogerson, Hall, MacLeod & Ivezic 2011, in ``AGN Winds in Charleston," 124 (arXiv:1203.2162)
• Polar Broad Absorption Line Quasars: An Open Question, Hall & Chajet 2011, MNRAS, submitted but subsequently withdrawn (not due to content, just due to workload)
• Modeling Line Emission from Disk Winds, Hall & Chajet 2010, in Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, eds. Peterson, Somerville & Storchi-Bergmann, p. 398
• The Black Hole-Bulge Relationship in Luminous Broad-Line Active Galactic Nuclei and Host Galaxies, Shen, Vanden Berk, Schneider & Hall 2007, in The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, eds. Ho & Wang, p. 68
• Graduate student workshop Cooking with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, May 2007

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• Evidence for the presence of dust in intervening QSO absorbers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Khare, P. et al. 2005, in Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines, ed. P. R. Williams, C. Shu, and B. Menard, p. 427
• Detection of the 2175 Angstrom dust feature from The Sloan Digital Sky Survey first and second data releases, Wang, J., Ge, J., Hall, P. B. , Prochaska, J. X., & Li, A. 2005, in Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines, eds. Williams, Shu & Menard, p. 331
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey QSO absorption line catalog, York, D. G. et al. 2005, in Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines, ed. P. R. Williams, C. Shu, and B. Menard, p. 58

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• Quasar Variability Measurements with SDSS Repeated Imaging and POSS Data, Ivezic, Z. et al. 2004, in ``The Interplay Among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei," eds. Storchi-Bergmann, Ho & Schmitt, 525 (astro-ph/0404487)
• Unconventional AGN from the SDSS, Hall, P. B., et al. 2004, in ``Multiwavelength AGN Surveys," ed. R. Mujica & R. Maiolino (Singapore: World Scientific), 247 (astro-ph/0403347)
• The Distribution of Quasars and Galaxies in Radio Color-Color and Morphology Diagrams, Ivezic, Z. et al. 2004, to appear in ``Multiwavelength AGN Surveys," ed. R. Mujica & R. Maiolino (astro-ph/0403314)
• An MHD-driven Disk Wind Outflow in SDSS J0300+0048?, Hall, P. B. & Hutsemekers, D. 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, eds. G. T. Richards & P. B. Hall, p. 227 (astro-ph/0311561)
• SDSS Quasars and Dust Reddening, Hall, P. B., Hopkins, P., et al. 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ed. G. T. Richards & P. B. Hall, p. 65 (astro-ph/0312281)
• Galaxy Evolution in Three Dimensions: Time, Space and Mass, Kodama, T., et al. 2004, in Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution, ed. R. Bender & A. Renzini (astro-ph/0312321)
• Quasar Radio Dichotomy: Two Peaks, or not Two Peaks, that is the Question, Ivezic et al. 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, eds. G. T. Richards & P. B. Hall, p. 347 (astro-ph/0310569)
• Counts of Low-redshift SDSS Quasar Candidates, Ivezic et al. 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, eds. G. T. Richards & P. B. Hall, p. 437 (astro-ph/0310566)
• Constraints on Continuum, BELR, and BALR Physics, Richards, Hall et al. 2004, in AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ed. G. T. Richards & P. B. Hall, p. 25 (astro-ph/0312137)

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• The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey, Barrientos et al. 2003, The Messenger, 112, 40
• VLT Observations of Two Unusual Absorption Line Quasars, Hall, P. B. & Hutsemekers, D. 2003, in Active Galactic Nuclei, from Central Engine to Host Galaxy," eds. S. Collin, F. Combes & I. Schlosman, p. 209 (astro-ph/0211089)

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• GRB Coordinates Network (GCN) Observation Reports on GRB020813, Gladders & Hall 2002: 1472 | 1495 | 1513 | 1514 | 1519
• Studying Active Galactic Nuclei with SNAP, Osmer, P. S. & Hall, P. B. 2002, AAS Meeting 199

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• The Optical, Infrared and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by SDSS, 2MASS and FIRST Surveys, Ivezic et al. 2001, in IAU Colloquium 184, AGN Surveys, eds. R. F. Green, E. Ye. Khachikian, & D. B. Sanders (ASP, San Francisco), p. 15 (astro-ph/0111024)
• Extreme BAL Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Hall, P. B., et al. 2002, in Mass Outflow from Active Galactic Nuclei: New Perspectives, eds. D.M. Crenshaw, S.B. Kraemer, and I.M. George, 161 (astro-ph/0107182)
• Faint Quasar Surveys, Hall, P. B., 2001, in The New Era of Wide-Field Astronomy, ed. R. G. Clowes, A. J. Adamson, G. E. Bromage, p. 84 (astro-ph/0010501)

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• An Efficient Search for L Dwarfs, T Dwarfs, and z>5.5 Quasars, Hall, P.B., Gladders, M.D., Barrientos, F., Yee, H.K.C., & Sawicki, M. 2000, BAAS 32, #3.10

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• Moderately and Extremely Red Galaxies in the Fields of Radio-Loud Quasars at z=1-2, Hall, P. B., Sawicki, M., & Lin, H. 2000, in Clustering at High Redshift, eds. Mazure, A., Le Fevre, O., & Le Brun, V., 205
• The Colour Dependence of the Galaxy Correlation Function and Its Evolution in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey, Shepherd, C.W., Carlberg, R., Yee, H.K.C., Morris, S.L., Lin, H., Sawicki, M., Hall, P.B., & Patton, D. 2000, in Clustering at High Redshift, eds. Mazure, A., Le Fevre, O., & Le Brun, V., 452
• Quasar Candidates in the Hubble Deep Field South, Monier, E., Conti, A., Osmer, P., Kennefick, J., Hall, P.B., & Smith, M. 1999, BAAS 31, #17.03
• Observations of Candidate z=1.54 Quasar Host Clusters, Hall, P. B., Sawicki, M., Pritchet, C. J., Hartwick, F. D. A., & Evans, A. 1999, in The Hy-Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift, eds. A. J. Bunker & W. J. M. van Breugel (ASP: San Francisco), 415 (astro-ph/9908102)
• Galaxy Clustering in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey, Carlberg, R., Yee, H.K.C., Morris, S.L., Lin, H., Hall, P.B., Patton, D., Sawicki, M., & Shepherd, C.W. 1999, in The Hy-Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift, eds. A. J. Bunker & W. J. M. van Breugel (ASP: San Francisco), 377 (astro-ph/9910100)
• Application of CNOC2 Calibrated Photometric Redshifts to a 6 Square Degree BVRI Survey, Lin, H., Sawicki, M., Yee, H.K.C., Hall, P.B., & Gladders, M.D. 1999, in Photometric Redshifts and High Redshift Galaxies, eds. R. Weymann, L. Storrie-Lombardi, M. Sawicki, & R. Brunner (ASP: San Francisco), 154

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• Evolution of the Galaxy Merger Rate from z=0 to z=0.5, Patton, D. R., Pritchet, C. J., Wirth, G. D., Carlberg, R. G., Hall, P. B., Lin, H., Sawicki, M., Shepherd, C. W., Yee, H. K. C., Marzke, R. O., Morris, S. L., Schade, D. & Ellingson, E. 1998, in Galaxy Dynamics, eds. D. R. Merritt, M. Valluri, and J. A. Sellwood, (San Francisco: ASP), 513
• Properties of Candidate Cluster Galaxies at z>1, Hall, P. B. 1998, talk presented at the 13th Kingston Meeting on Theoretical Astrophysics: Galaxy Formation and Cosmic Star Formation History. (astro-ph/9812195)
• The Environment of the Radio-Quiet Quasar E 1821+643, Saxton, R. D., Hall, P. B., and Turner, M. J. L. 1998, in proceedings of ``Dal nano- al tera-eV: tutti i colori degli AGN'', third Italian conference on AGNs, Roma, Memorie S.A.It
• IAU 6869 & 6870, 1998 April 7, recovery of new Uranian moons S/1997 U 1 (Caliban) and S/1997 U 2 (Sycorax). With D. Groom (LBNL), I performed observations with the Big Throughput Camera on the CTIO 4-meter telescope which enabled important refinements to these satellites' orbits to be made.
• IAU 6852, 1998 March 28, optical counterpart of GRB 980326. With M. Smith (CTIO), I was part of the ``large collaboration'' which identified the optical counterpart of GRB 980326. We performed observations with the Big Throughput Camera on the CTIO 4-meter telescope.

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• Multiwavelength Observations of the February 1996 High-Energy Flare in the Blazar 3C 279; Wehrle, A. E. et al. 1997, in Proceedings of the Fourth Compton Symposium, eds. Charles D. Dermer, Mark S. Strickman, and James D. Kurfess, AIP Conference Proceedings 410, 1417

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• Field Galaxy Evolution Studies with an Optical Multicolor Deep-Sky Survey; Liu, C. T., Green, R. F., Hall, P. B. and Osmer, P. S. 1996, in ``New Light on Galaxy Evolution," eds. Bender, R., and Davies, R. L., (Kluwer: Dordrecht), 406.

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• Faculty-Student Relationships: A Video Perspective, The Steward Observatory Not Ready for Dark Time Players, 1991, BAAS 23, 1438.

Research Skills

• Very experienced with longslit, multislit, and multifiber optical spectroscopy.

• Experienced with deep and wide-field optical and infrared imaging and reductions, including FOCAS, PPP, and SKICAT detection and cataloguing software.

• Experienced with optical/IR observing and 1-2m class telescope operation.

• Experienced with adaptive-optics infrared imaging and reductions.

• Experienced with acquisition and reduction of polarimetric data.

• Experienced with analysis of X-ray imaging data.

• Experienced with acquisition and reduction of SCUBA sub-millimeter data.

• Very experienced with IRAF as both software and programming language.

• Also experienced with MATLAB, UNIX, SQL, Perl, IDL, FORTRAN, LaTeX and HTML.

Trivia

Asteroid 153686 Pathall (discovered in 2001) named after me