Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Astrophysics

Physics

Expertise

Radio astronomy. Cosmology.

Awards and Honors

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1994 - 1995)

Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society (1970)

Courses Taught

PHSC	2b	Introductory Astronomy
PHYS	108b	Astrophysics
PHYS	301a	Astrophysics Seminar I
PHYS	301b	Astrophysics Seminar II

Scholarship

Wardle, John FC (with Roberts, D. H. & Marchenko, V. V.). "The Structure and Linear Polarization of the Kiloparsec-scale Jet of the Quasar 3C 345." Astronomical Journal 145. (2013): 49-58.

Wardle, John FC (with Cheung, C. C.; Stawarz, Ł.; Siemiginowska, A.; Gobeille, D.; Harris, D. E.; Schwartz, D. A.). "Discovery of a Kiloparsec-scale X-Ray/Radio Jet in the z = 4.72 Quasar GB 1428+4217." Astrophysical Journal 756. (2012): L20-L24.

Wardle, John FC (with Roberts, D. H.). "Evidence for Highly Relativistic Velocities in the Kiloparsec-scale Jet of the Quasar 3C 345 Authors: ." Astrophysical Journal 749. (2012): L35-L39.

Wardle, John FC (with M. R. Bell and D. R. Roberts). " Structure and Magnetic Fields in the Precessing Jet System SS433 III. Evolution of the Intrinsic Brightness of the Jets from a Deep Multi-Epoch VLA Campaign." Astrophysical Journal 736. 2 (2011): 118-132.

Wardle, John FC (with David H. Roberts, Michael R. Bell, Matthew R. Mallory, Valerie Marchenko, Phoebe Sanderbeck). "Structure and Magnetic Fields in the Precessing Jet System SS 433 II. Intrinsic Brightness of the Jets." Astrophysical Journal, 719, pp1918 - 1925 (2010).

Wardle, John FC with D. Homan, M. Lister, H. Aller, M. Aller. "Full Polarization Spectra of 3C 279." Astrophysical Journal (2009).

Wardle, John FC, with Roberts, David H.; Lipnick, Scott L.; Selesnick, Philip L.; Slutsky, Simon;. "Structure and Magnetic Fields in the Precessing Jet System SS 433. I. Multifrequency Imaging from 1998." Astrophysical Journal 676. (2008): 585-593.

Wardle, John FC with Cheung, C. C.; Stawarz, L.; Siemiginowska, A.; Harris, D. E; Schwartz, D. A.; Gobeille, D.; Lee, N. P.;. "The Highest Redshift Relativistic Jets." Extragalactic Jets: Theory and Observation from Radio to Gamma Ray, Girdwood, Alaska. Eds. T.A. Rector and D.S. De Young, 21-24 May (2007).

Wardle, John FC with Cheung, C. C.; Lee, N. P.. "Large-Scale Radio and X-ray Jets in the Highest Redshift Quasars." 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Eds. P. Chen et al. also arXiv:astro-ph/0606256. (2006).

Wardle, John FC with Sambruna, Rita M.; Gliozzi, Mario; Donato, Davide; Maraschi, L.; Tavecchio, F.; Cheung, C. C.; Urry, C. Megan. "Deep Chandra and Multicolor HST Follow-up of the Jets in Two Powerful Radio Quasars." Astrophysical Journal 641. 2 (2006): 717-731.

Wardle, John FC with Tavecchio, F.; Maraschi, L.; Sambruna, R. M.; Gliozzi, M.; Cheung, C. C.; Urry, C. Megan,. "Deceleration from Entrainment in the Jet of the Quasar 1136-135?." Astrophysical Journal 641. 2 (2006): 732-739.

Wardle, John FC, with Attridge, Joanne M.; Wardle, Homan, D. C.. "Concurrent 43 and 86 GHz Very Long Baseline Polarimetry of 3C 273." Astrophysical Journal 628. 1 (2005): 104-112.

Wardle,John FC with C Cheung & T Chen. "Optical detections of the radio hotspots in three powerful 3CR quasars." Astrophysical Journal (2005).

Wardle,John FC with D. Homan. "High levels of circulary polarized emission from the raido jet in NGC 1275 (3C84)." Astrophysical Journal 602. 13 (2004).

Wardle,John FC with R Ojha, D Homan, D. Roberts, M Aller H Aller & P Hughes. "Parsec scale blazar monitoring: the data." Astrophys. J. Supplement 150. 187 (2004).

Wardle,John FC with Z Paragi, R Vermeulen, D Homan, I Fejes, R Schillizzi, R Spencer & A Stirling. Probing the polarization characteristics of SS433 on mas scales. Proc 7th Symposium on the European VLBI network and astro_ph/0412682, 2004.