User:Davidbuddy9/Tabetha S. Boyajian
Tabetha S. Boyajian | |
|---|---|
 Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian[1] | |
| Education | Ph.D. from Georgia State University |
| Known for | Hubble fellowship work, Kepler-61b, Discovery of strange light curves around KIC 8462852 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Exoplanetary astrophysics, Stellar observations |
Tabetha S. Boyajian is an astronomer and post-doctoral fellow at Yale University.[2] She is the lead author of the September 2015 paper Where's the Flux? which investigates the highly unusual light curve of KIC 8462852;[3] the star has been colloquially named Tabby's Star in her honor.[4]
In 2009, Boyajian received a Ph.D. from Georgia State University, for which she studied the sizes of nearby stars similar to the Sun, using the University's CHARA array, a long-baseline optical and infrared interferometer. She was awarded a NASA Hubble Fellowship, and stayed at Georgia to study sizes of nearby stars much smaller than the Sun and stars with planets.[5][6] Fellow astronomer Sarah Ballard has used Boyajian's "truly remarkable"[7] work creating this "precious sample"[7] of data on nearby small stars for the "characterization by proxy" method to help investigate the far more distant exoplanet Kepler-61b.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/14867/
- ^ "Postdoctoral Associates & Fellows". Yale University. Archived from the original on January 12, 2015.
- ^ Boyajian, T. S.; LaCourse, D. M.; Rappaport, S. A.; Fabrycky, D.; Fischer, D. A.; Gandolfi, D.; Kennedy, G. M.; Liu, M. C.; Moor, A.; Olah, K.; Vida, K.; Wyatt, M. C.; Best, W. M. J.; Ciesla, F.; Csak, B.; Dupuy, T. J.; Handler, G.; Heng, K.; Korhonen, H.; Kovacs, J.; Kozakis, T.; Kriskovics, L.; Schmitt, J. R.; Szabo, Gy.; Szabo, R.; Wang, J.; Goodman, S.; Hoekstra, A.; Jek, K. J. (September 15, 2015). "Planet Hunters IX. KIC 8462852 – where's the flux?". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 457 (4): 3988–4004. arXiv:1509.03622. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw218.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Newsome, John (16 October 2015). "Space anomaly gets extraterrestrial intelligence experts' attention". CNN. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ "NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows" (Press release). Space Telescope Science Institute. February 25, 2009. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
- ^ "GSU astronomy graduate student receives Hubble Fellowship to explore stellar sizes" (Press release). Georgia State University.
{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Kelly, Peter (April 25, 2013). "Astronomer studies far-off worlds through 'characterization by proxy'". UW Today. University of Washington. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013. Quoting Sarah Ballard.
- ^ Ballard, Sarah; Charbonneau, David; Fressin, Francois; Torres, Guillermo; Irwin, Jonathan; Desert, Jean-Michel; Newton, Elisabeth; Mann, Andrew W.; Ciardi, David R.; Crepp, Justin R.; Henze, Christopher E.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Howell, Steven B.; Horch, Elliott P.; Everett, Mark E.; Shporer, Avi (April 2013). "Exoplanet Characterization by Proxy: a Transiting 2.15 R_Earth Planet Near the Habitable Zone of the Late K dwarf Kepler-61". Astrophysical Journal. 773 (2). arXiv:1304.6726. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/98. S2CID 34112029.
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