Tabetha S. Boyajian
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| Born | c. 1971 (age 52–53) |
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| Thesis | Sizing up the Stars (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold A. McAlister |
| Known for | Discovery of strange light curve for KIC 8462852 |
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Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian (born c. 1971) is an American astronomer and post-doctoral fellow at Yale University, working with Debra Fischer.[1] Boyajian is active in the astronomical fields of stellar interferometry, stellar spectroscopy, exoplanet research, and high angular resolution astronomy, all particularly at optical and infrared wavelengths. She is the lead author of the September 2015 paper Where's the Flux? which investigates the highly unusual light curve of KIC 8462852;[2] the star has been colloquially named Tabby's Star in her honor.[3]
Background
In 2009, Boyajian received a Ph.D. from Georgia State University, working with thesis advisor Harold A. McAlister. 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 at Mount Wilson Observatory. 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.[4][5] Fellow astronomer Sarah Ballard has used Boyajian's "truly remarkable"[6] work creating this "precious sample"[6] of data on nearby small stars for the "characterization by proxy" method to help investigate the far more distant exoplanet Kepler-61b.[6][7]
As of 2015[ref], Boyajian is secretary and steering committee member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics of the International Astronomical Union.[8]
Boyajian is also manager of the Planet Hunters project in which amateurs analyze data from the Kepler space observatory.[9]
See also
Historical Yale women astronomers:
References
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External links
- Official website
- "The most mysterious star in the universe". Tabetha Boyajian at TED 2016. Video and transcript.
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