Tabetha S. Boyajian

Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian (born c. 1980) is an American Astronomer on faculty at Louisiana State University . [1] [2] She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012-16 at Yale University , working with Debra Fischer . [2] Boyajian is active in the Astronomical areas or stellar interferometry , stellar spectroscopy , exoplanet research , and high angular resolution astronomy, all bijzonder at optical and infrared wavelengths. She is the lead author of the September 2015 paper Where’s the Flux? welke Investigates the highly unusual light curve or KIC 8462852 ; [3] the star has leg colloquially named Tabby’s Star in her honor. [4]

Background

Boyajian RECEIVED a BS degree from the College of Charleston in 2003, an MS degree in Physics from Georgia State University in 2005 and a Ph.D. degree from the university together in 2009. [5] She studied the sizes of nearby stars similar to the Sun, using the University’s Chara array , a long-baseline optical and infrared interferometer located in the euro at Mount Wilson Observatory . Boyajian was Awarded a Hubble Fellowship , and stayed at Georgia to study sizes or nearby stars much narrower dan the Sun and stars with planets. [6] [7] Fellow Astronomer Sarah Ballard has-used Boyajian’s “truly remarkable” [8] work customizing this “precious sample” [8] or data on nearby small stars for the “characterization by proxy” method to help Investigate the far more distant exoplanet Kepler-61b . [8] [9]

As of 2015 , Boyajian’s secretary and steering committee member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics of the International Astronomical Union . [10]

Boyajian been turned manager of the Planet Hunters project welke amateurs analyseren data from the Kepler space observatory. [11]

References

  1. Jump up^ “Welcome” . Yale University. Archived from the original on July 23, 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b “Exoplanets: Postdoctoral Associates & Fellows” . Yale University. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016.
  3. Jump up^ Boyajian, TS; LaCourse, DM; Rappaport, SA; Fabrycky, D .; Fischer, DA; Gandolfi, D .; Kennedy, GM; Liu, MC; Moor, A .; Olah, K .; Vida, K .; Wyatt, MC; Best, WMJ; Ciesla, F .; Csak, B .; Dupuy, TJ; Handler, G .; Heng, K .; Korhonen, H .; Kovacs, J .; Kozakis, T .; Kriskovics, L .; Schmitt, JR; Szabo, Gy .; Szabo, R .; Wang, J .; Goodman, S .; Hoekstra, A .; Ject, KJ (September 15, 2015). “Planet X. Hunters KIC 8462852 – Where’s the Flux?”. arXiv : 1509.03622 [ astro-ph.SR ]. Submitted toMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
  4. Jump up^ Newsome, John (16 October 2015). “Space Anomaly gets extraterrestrial intelligence experts’ attention” . CNN . Retrieved 16 October 2015 .
  5. Jump up^ CV Dr. Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian- scientific literature digital libraryCiteSeerX
  6. Jump up^ “NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows” (Press release). Space Telescope Science Institute. February 25, 2009 . Retrieved October 18, 2015 .
  7. Jump up^ “GSU astronomy graduate student receives Hubble Fellowship to explore stellar sizes” (Press release). Georgia State University. Archived from the original on May 3, 2009.
  8. ^ Jump up to:a b c Kelly, Peter (April 25, 2013). “Astronomer studies far-off worlds through” characterization by proxy ‘ ‘ . YOUR Today . University of Washington. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013. Quoting Sarah Ballard.
  9. Jump up^ 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 . Bibkey : 2013ApJ … 773 … 98B . doi : 10.1088 / 0004-637X / 773/2/98 .
  10. Jump up^ “Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian” . International Astronomical Union. September 29, 2015. Archived from the original on October 28, 2015.
  11. Jump up^ Hackett, Jennifer (October 25, 2015). “Computers Would Never Have Found” Alien Superstructure ‘Star – It Citizen Science Required ” . Scientific American . Retrieved 14 February 2016 .