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There is a 1991 oral history interview at Caltech Institute Archives.

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Sargent, Wallace L.W. & Leonard Searle, “Studies of the Peculiar A Stars. I. The Oxygen-Abundance Anomaly,” Ap.J.136, 408 (1962).

Sargent, Wallace L.W. “The Atmospheres of the Magnetic and Metallic-Line Stars,” Ann. Rev. Astron. & Astrophys. 2, 297 (1964).

Sargent, Wallace L.W. “A Possible Relationship Between the Peculiar A Stars and the Boötis Stars,” Ap.J. 142, 787-90 (1965).

Bahcall, John N. & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “Predicted Emission Spectra of Quasi-Stellar Sources in the Far Ultraviolet,” Ap.J.148, L65-L68 (1967).

Bahcall, John N., Jesse L. Greenstein, & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “The Absorption-Line Spectrum of the Quasi-Stellar Radio Source PKS 0237-23,” Ap.J.153, 689-98 (1968).

Sargent, Wallace L.W. “The Spectra and Redshifts of Thirty Markarian Galaxies with Ultraviolet Continua,” Ap.J. 159, 765-72 (1970).

Sargent, Wallace L.W. “A Spectroscopic Survey of Compact and Peculiar Galaxies,” Ap.J. 160, 405-28 (1970).

Spinrad, Hyron, et al, “Maffei 1: a New Massive Member of the Local Group?” Ap.J. 163, L25-L31 (1971).

Hazard, C., et al, “Discrepant Redshifts of QSOs in Clusters of Galaxies and a Close QSO Pair,” Nature 246, 205 (1973).

Searle, Leonard, W.L.W. Sargent, & W.G. Bagnuolo, “The History of Star Formation and the Colors of Late-Type Galaxies,” Ap.J. 179, 427-38 (1973).

Sargent, Wallace L.W. “Redshifts for 51 Galaxies Identified with Radio Sources in the 4C Catalog,” Ap.J. 182, L13-L15 (1973).

Turner, Edwin L. & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “The Nature of Small Groups of Galaxies in the Local Supercluster,” Ap.J. 194, 587-92 (1974).

Giacconi, R., et al, “A High-sensitivity X-ray Survey using the Einstein Observatory and the Discrete Source Contribution to the Extragalactic X-ray Background,” Ap.J. 234, L1-L7 (1979).

Sargent, Wallace L. W., Peter J. Young, A. Boksenberg, & David Tytler, “The Distribution of Lyman-alpha Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Six QSOs: Evidence for an Intergalactic Origin,” Ap.J. Supp.42, 41-81 (1980).

Wilkinson, A., R.G. Hine, & W.L.W. Sargent, “Optical and Radio Properties of 4C Galaxies,” MNRAS 196, 669-93 (1981).

Young, Peter J., Wallace L.W. Sargent, Jerome Kristian, & James A. Westphal, “CCD Photometry of the Nuclei of Three Supergiant Elliptical Galaxies: Evidence for a Supermassive Object in the Center of the Radio Galaxy NGC 6251,” Ap.J. 234, 76-85 (1979).

Filippenko, Alexei V. & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “A Search for ‘Dwarf’ Seyfert 1 Nuclei. I. The Initial Data and Results ,” Ap.J. Supp.57, 503-22 (1985).

Kunth, D, & W.L.W. Sargent, “I ZW 18 and the Existence of Very Metal Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies, Ap.J. 300, 496-99 (1986).

Filippenko, Alexei V., Alain C. Porter, Wallace L. W. Sargent, & Donald P. Schneider, “The Optical Light Curve of SN 1985f in NGC 4618,” Astronomical Journal 92, 1341-48 (1986).

Sargent, W.L.W., “QSO Absorption Lines: Introduction,” in QSO Absorption Lines: Probing the Universe: Proceedings of the QSO Absorption Line Meeting, Baltimore, 1987, May 19-21, eds. J.C. Blades, D.A. Turnshek and C.A. Norman (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1988).

Sargent, W.L.W., “Evolution of Largescale Structure in the Universe,” (George Darwin Lecture, 1987),” Observatory 107, 235-38 (1987).

Steidel, Charles C. & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “The Effect of the Lyman-Alpha Forest on the Ultraviolet Continua of Very High Redshift Quasars,” Ap.J. 313,171-84 (1987).

da Costa, L. Nicolaci, et al, “The Southern Sky Redshift Survey,” Ap.J. 327, 544-60 (1988).

Sargent, Wallace L.W., Charles C. Steidel, & A. Boksenberg, “A Survey of Lyman-Limit Absorption in the Spectra of 59 High-Redshift QSOs,” Ap.J. Supp.69, 703-61 (1989).

Reid, I.N., et al, “The Second Palomar Sky Survey,” PASP 103, 661-74 (1991).

Rosenblatt, Edward I., Matthew A. Malkan, Wallace L.W. Sargent, & Anthony C. S. Readhead, “The Broad Emission Line and Continuum Variations of Seyfert Galaxies. II: Broad-Line Region Structure and Kinematics,” Ap.J. Supp.93, 73-124 (1994).

Bahcall, John N., et al, “The Hubble Space Telescope Quasar Absorption Line Key Project. VII. Absorption Systems at z _abs ≤ 1.3,” Ap.J. 457, 19-49 (1996).

Ho, Luis C. , Alexei V. Filippenko, and Wallace L.W. Sargent, “New Insights into the Physical Nature of LINERs from a Multiwavelength Analysis of the Nucleus of M81,” Ap.J.462, 183-202 (1996).

Lu, Limin, et al, “Abundances at High Redshifts: The Chemical Enrichment History of Damped Lyα Galaxies,” Ap.J. Supp. 107, 475 (1996).

Ho, Luis C. , Alexei V. Filippenko, & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “A Search for ‘Dwarf’ Seyfert Nuclei. V. Demographics of Nuclear Activity in Nearby Galaxies,” Ap.J. 487, 568-78 (1997).

Ho, Luis C. , Alexei V. Filippenko, and Wallace L.W. Sargent, “The Influence of Bars on Nuclear Activity,” Ap.J.487, 591 (1997). (abstract) (preprint)

Rauch, Michael, et al, “The Opacity of the Lyα Forest and Implications for Ω_b and the Ionizing Background,” Ap.J. 489, 7-20 (1997).

Rauch, Michael, Wallace W.L. Sargent, & Tom A. Barlow, “Small-Scale Structure at High Redshift. I. Glimpses of the Interstellar Medium at Redshift ∼3.5,” Ap.J. 515, 500-05(1999).

Small, Todd A., Chung-Pei Ma, Wallace L.W. Sargent, & Donald Hamilton, “Galaxy Clustering and Large-Scale Structure from z = 0.2 to z = 0.5 in Two Norris Redshift Surveys,” Ap.J. 524, 31-48 (1999). (abstract) (preprint)

Ho, Luis C., et al, “Detection of Nuclear X-Ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies with Chandra,” Ap.J. 549, L51-L54 (2001).

Sarzi, Marc, et al, “Supermassive Black Holes in Bulges,” Ap.J. 550, 65-74 (2001).

Sarzi, Marc, et al, “Limits on the Mass of the Central Black Hole in 16 Nearby Bulges,” Ap.J. 567, 237-46 (2002).

Boksenberg, Alec, Wallace L.W. Sargent, & Michael Rauch, “Properties of QSO Metal Line Absorption Systems at High Redshifts: Nature and Evolution of the Absorbers and the Ionizing Radiation Background,” arXiv:astro-ph/0307557v1 (2003).

Barth, Aaron J., Luis C. Ho, & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “The Black Hole Masses and Host Galaxies of BL Lacertae Objects,” Ap.J. 583, 134-44 (2003).

Rauch, Michael, et al, “Expansion and Collapse in the Cosmic Web,” Ap.J. 632, 58-80 (2005).

Becker, George D., Michael Rauch, & Wallace L.W. Sargent, “The Evolution of Optical Depth in the Lyα Forest: Evidence Against Reionization at z∼6,” Ap.J. 662, 72-93 (2007).

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Arnold, S.J., et al, “How Large is Pluto?” Sky & Telescope 59, 209 (1980).

Gustafson, John R. & Wallace Sargent, “The Keck Observatory - 36 Mirrors are Better than One,” Mercury 17, 43 (1988).