Selected Publications


Science - Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

Science - Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

  1. Algaba, J. C., et al., (Multi-collaboration paper), Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign, Astrophys. Journal Letters, 911:1, L11 (2021)
  2. Archer, A., et al., (VERITAS Collaboration, http://veritas.sao.arizona.edu), VERITAS Discovery of VHE Emission from the Radio Galaxy 3C 264: A Multi-Wavelength Study, Astrophys. Journal, 896:1, 41 (2020), arXiv:2005.03110.
  3. Abeysekara, A. U., (Multi-collaboration paper), The Great Markarian 421 Flare of February 2010: Multiwavelength Variability and Correlation Studies, Astrophys. Journal, 890, 2 (2020), arXiv:2002.03567.
  4. Benbow, W., et al., (Multi-collaboration paper), Direct measurement of stellar angular diameters by the VERITAS Cherenkov Telescopes, Nature Astronomy, Volume 3, p. 511-516, (2019), arXiv:1904.06324.
  5. Aartsen, M. G., et al., (Multi-collaboration paper), Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A, Science, 361 6398 (2018), arXiv:1807.08816.
  6. Archer, A. et al., HESS J1943+213: An Extreme Blazar Shining through the Galactic Plane, Astrophys. Journal, 862, 41 (2018), arXiv:1806.04144.
  7. Abeysekara, A. U., et al., (VERITAS Collaboration), Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar BL Lacertae: A New Fast TeV Gamma-Ray Flare, Astrophys. Journal, 856 2 (2018), arXiv:1802.10113.
  8. Ahnen, M. L., et al., (Multi-collaboration paper), Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009, Astron. &. Astrophys., (2017), arXiv:1612.09472.
  9. Abeysekara, A. U., et al., (VERITAS Collaboration), A Luminous and Isolated Gamma-Ray Flare from the Blazar B2 1215+30, Astrophys. Journal, 836 205 (2017), arXiv:1701.01067.
  10. Archambault, S., et al., Search for Magnetically Broadened Cascade Emission from Blazars with VERITAS, Astrophys. Journal, 835 288 (2017), arXiv:1701.00372.
  11. Abeysekara, A. U., et al., A Search for Spectral Hysteresis and Energy-dependent Time Lags from X-Ray and TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of Mrk 421, Astrophys. Journal, 834 2 (2017), Arxiv:1611.04626.
  12. Abeysekara, A. U., et al., VERITAS and multiwavelength observations of the BL Lacertae object 1ES 1741+196, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459 2550 (2016), Arxiv:1603.07286.
  13. Archambault, S., et al., Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma Rays from 1ES 1440+122, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461 202 (2016). 
  14. Fortson, L., for the VERITAS Collaboration, Highlights of recent results from the VERITAS gamma-ray observatory, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 718 Issue 5, article id. 052013 (2016).
  15. Balokovic, M., et al., Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013, In press for publication in Astrophys. Journal (2016), Arxiv:1512.02235.
  16. Abeysekara, A. U., et al., Gamma-Rays from the Quasar PKS 1441+25: Story of an Escape, Astrophys. Journal Letters 815 L22 (2015), Arxiv:1512.04434.
  17. Weinstein, A. and Fortson, L., et al., Testing a Novel Self-Assembling Data Paradigm in the Context of IACT Data, Contribution to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (2015), Arxiv:1509.02202.
  18. Aleksic, J., et al., The 2009 multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 421: Variability and correlation studies, Astronomy and Astrophysics 576 A126 (2015), Arxiv:1502.02650.
  19. Aleksic, J., et al., Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics 578 A22 (2015), Arxiv:1412.3576.
  20. Archambault, S., et al., Deep Broadband Observations of the Distant Gamma-Ray Blazar PKS 1424+240, Astrophys. Journal Letters 785 L16 (2014), Arxiv:1403.4308.
  21. Acciari, V. A., et al., Observation of Markarian 421 in TeV gamma rays over a 14-year time span, Astroparticle Physics 54, 1 (2014), ArXiv:1310.8150.
  22. Beatty, J. J., et al., Snowmass Cosmic Frontiers 6 (CF6) Working Group Summary The Bright Side of the Cosmic Frontier: Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics, (2013), ArXiv:1310.5662.
  23. Archambault, S., et al., Discovery of a New TeV Gamma-Ray Source: VER J0521+211, Astrophysical Journal 776, 69 (2013), Arxiv:1308.5017.
  24. Dumm, J., & Fortson, L., Gamma-ray Signatures of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Line-of-sight Interactions, (2013), ArXiv:1305.0253.
  25. Weinstein, A., Dumm, J., Fortson, L. & Mukherjee, R., The impact of astrophysical particle acceleration on searches for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, (2013), ArXiv:1305.0082.
  26. Arlen, T., et al., Rapid TeV Gamma-Ray Flaring of BL Lacertae, Astrophysical Journal 762, 92 (2013), ArXiv:1211.3073.
  27. Arlen, T., et al., Constraints on Cosmic Rays, Magnetic Fields, and Dark Matter from GammaRay Observations of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with VERITAS and Fermi, Astrophys. J., 757 123 (2012) (with C. Pfrommer and A. Pinzke).
  28. Aliu, E., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), Multiwavelength Observations of the AGN 1ES 0414+009 with VERITAS, Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and MDM, Astrophys. J., 755, 118 (2012).
  29. Aliu, E., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), Discovery of High-energy and Very High Energy γ-Ray Emission from the Blazar RBS 0413, Astrophys. J., 750, 94 (2012).
  30. Willett, K., Nelson, T., & Fortson, L., Environmental Clustering Properties of High-Energy Blazars, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, edited by F. A. Aharonian, W. Hofmann, & F. Rieger (2012).
  31. Fortson, L. for the VERITAS Collaboration and Fermi-LAT Collaborators: James Chiang, Stephen Fegan, Berrie Giebels, Deirdre Horan, Grzegorz Madejski, David Paneque; Results from VERITAS Observations on the Giant Flare from Mrk 421 in February 2010 American Institute of Physics Conference Series, edited by F. A. Aharonian, W. Hofmann, & F. Rieger (2012).
  32. Acciari, V.A., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), TeV and Multi-wavelength Observations of Mrk 421 in 2006-2008, Astrophys. J., 738, 25 (2011).
  33. Acciari, V.A., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), The Discovery of γ-Ray Emission from the Blazar RGB J0710+591, Astrophys. J., 715 L49-L55 (2010).
  34. Acciari, V.A., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), Veritas 2008-2009 Monitoring of the Variable Gamma-ray Source M 87, Astrophys. J., 716 819 (2010).
  35. Acciari, V.A., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), A connection between star formation activity and cosmic rays in the starburst galaxy M82, Nature, 462 Issue 7274 (2009) pp. 770.
  36. Horan, D., et al., Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 in 2005 - 2006, Astrophys. J., 695 596 (2009).
  37. Acciari, V.A., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration), Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma-ray Radiation from the BL Lac 1ES 0806+524, Astrophys. J, 690 L126-L129 (2009).
  38. Acciari, V.A., et al. (VERITAS Collaboration) VERITAS Discovery of >200 GeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Intermediate-Frequency-Peaked BL Lacertae Object W Comae, Astrophys. J. 684 L73-L77 (2008).
  39. Fortson, L., Kildea, J., (VERITAS collaboration) The AGN Monitoring Program with the Whipple 10m Observatory, in proceedings of “Workshop on Blazar Variability across the Electromagnetic Spectrum”, PoS(BLAZARS2008)039 http://pos.sissa.it/ (2008).
  40. Holder, J. et al. The first VERITAS telescope, Astro. Part. Phys., 25 391 (2006).
  41. Rebillot, P. et al. Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar Markarian 421 in 2002 December and 2003 January, Astrophys. J., 641 740 (2006).
  42. Blazejowski, M., et al., A Multiwavelength View of the TeV Blazar Markarian 421: Correlated Variability, Flaring, and Spectral Evolution, Astrophys. J., 630 130 (2005).
  43. Swordy, S. & Fortson, L. F., editors The 2nd VERITAS Symposium on TeV Astrophysics of Extragalactic Sources, New Ast Rev, 48 321 (2004).
Science - Galaxy Evolution

Science - Galaxy Evolution 

  1. Mehta, V. et al., Investigating Clumpy Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 using the Galaxy Zoo, accepted The Astrophysical Journal, (2021), arXiv:2011.01232.
  2. Clarke, L. et al., An old stellar population or diffuse nebular continuum emission discovered in green pea galaxies, accepted The Astrophysical Journal, (2021), arXiv:2012.07668.
  3. Dickinson, H. et al., Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification of Galaxy Images from the Illustris Simulation, The Astrophysical Journal, 853, 194 (2018), arXiv:1801.08541.
  4. Simmons, B. D., et al., Galaxy Zoo: quantitative visual morphological classifications for 48 000 galaxies from CANDELS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464, 4420 (2017), arXiv:1610.03070.
  5. Willett, K. W. et al, Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classifications for 120,000 Galaxies in HST Legacy Imaging, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 464, 4176 (2017), arXiv:1610.03068.
  6. Holincheck, A. J., et al., Galaxy Zoo: Mergers - Dynamical models of interacting galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459, 720 (2016), ArXiv:1604.00435.
  7. Banfield, J. K., et al., Radio Galaxy Zoo: host galaxies and radio morphologies derived from visual inspection, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, 2326 (2015), ArXiv:1507.07272. 
  8. Willett, K. W., et al., Galaxy Zoo 2: the dependence of the star formation-stellar mass relation on spiral disc morphology, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449, 820 (2015), ArXiv:1502.03444.
  9. Galloway, M., et al., Galaxy Zoo: the effect of bar-driven fuelling on the presence of an active galactic nucleus in disc galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448, 3442 (2015), ArXiv:1502.01033.
  10. Schawinski, K., et al., The green valley is a red herring: Galaxy Zoo reveals two evolutionary pathways towards quenching of star formation in early- and late-type galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 440, 889 (2014), ArXiv:1402.4814.
  11. Willett, K. W., et al., Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435, 2835 (2013), ArXiv:1308.3496.
  12. Masters, K., et al., Galaxy Zoo: bars in disc galaxies, MNRAS, 411 Issue 3 (2011) pp. 2026.
Citizen Science & Zooniverse Projects or Infrastructure

Citizen Science & Zooniverse Projects or Infrastructure

  1. Lea A. Shanley, Lucy Fortson, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Kevin Crowston, Pietro Michelucci Imagine All the People: Citizen Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Research, A Computing Community Consortium (CCC) white paper (2020) arXiv:2104.00093
  2. Walmsley, M., et al., Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314,000 Galaxies, accepted MNRAS (2021) arXiv:2102.08414
  3. Walmsley, M., et al., Galaxy Zoo: Probabilistic morphology through Bayesian CNNs and active learning, MNRAS 491, 2 (2020) arXiv: 1905.07424
  4. Wright, D. E., Fortson, L., Lintott, C., Laraia, M, and Walmsley. M., Help Me to Help You: Machine Augmented Citizen Science, (2019) ACM Transactions on Social Computing 2(3): 1-20.
  5. Mahabal, A., et al., Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility, PASP (2019) 131 (997) arXiv:1902.01936.
  6. Trouille, L., Lintott, C., Fortson, L., Citizen science frontiers: Efficiency, engagement, and serendipitous discovery with human-machine systems, PNAS (2019) 116 (6) 1902-1909.
  7. Willi, M., et al., Identifying animal species in camera trap images using deep learning and citizen science, Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10 80 (2019).
  8. Fortson, L., et al., Optimizing the human-machine partnership with Zooniverse, In CI 2018: ACM Collective Intelligence- Zurich 2018. arxiv:1809.09738.
  9. Beck, M., et al., Integrating human and machine intelligence in galaxy morphology classification tasks, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476, 5516 (2018). arXiv:1802.08713.
  10. Bird, R., et al., Muon Hunter: a Zooniverse project, 2018 TAUP Conference Proceedings (accepted) arXiv:1802.08907.
  11. Wright, D., et al., A transient search using combined human and machine classifications, 2017 MNRAS 472, p.1315 arXiv:1707.05223.
  12. Williams, A., et al., A computational pipeline for crowdsourced transcriptions of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data 1, 100 (2014).
  13. Williams, A., et al., Identification of Ancient Greek Papyrus Fragments Using Genetic Sequence Alignment Algorithms, 2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science 2, 5 (2014). 8
  14. Fortson, L., et al., Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification and Citizen Science, Chapter published in Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy. Editors: Michael Way, Jeff Scargle, Ashok Srivastava, and Kamal Ali. arXiv:1104.5513; published 2012.
  15. Smith, A.M., et al., Galaxy Zoo Supernovae, MNRAS, 412 (2011) pp. 1309.
Reviews, Editorials, Education and Outreach

Reviews, Editorials, Education and Outreach

  1. Fortson, L., From Green Peas to STEVE: Citizen Science Engagement in Space Science Chapt 10; Space Science and Public Engagement Elsevier; Editor: Amy Kaminski, April 2021.
  2. Fortson, L., et al., Cosmology: A few words on infinity, Nature, Volume 513, Issue 7519, pp. 485 (2014).
  3. Fortson, L., Blazing the Trails: Essays by Leading Women in Science pgs 114-123; Editors: Emma Ideal, Rhiannon Meharchand, July 2013.
  4. Fortson, L., SubbaRao, M., & Greenberg, G., Using Collaborative Environments in Research-based Science Education, Proc. Astro. Soc. Pac., 389 239-243 (2008).
  5. Carney, K., Fortson, L., & Nichols, M., CI-Team: Introducing Quasar Research to High School Science Teachers using the Cyber-infrastructure, Proc. Astro. Soc. Pac., 389 91-95 (2008).
  6. Fortson, L.,The Importance of Involving Research Scientists in Education and Outreach NASA OSS Education & Public Outreach Conference; ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 319; Eds. C. Narasimhan, B. Beck-Winchatz, & I. Hawkins (2004).