Group
Keck Planet Hunter Collaboration
My extended research group includes investigators from various universities who are using the W. M. Keck Observatory to discover and characterize exoplanets and their host stars with high-resolution spectroscopy. Group activities include frequent observing on Keck, observer training, data management, and of course, analysis of the planets and stars that are so dear to us!
Keck Planet Hunters, 2019
Back row, L to R: Howard Isaacson, Sean Mills, Lee Rosenthal, Erik Petigura, Andrew Howard, Dan Huber, BJ Fulton. Front row, L to R: Lauren Weiss, Lea Hirsch, Ryan Rubenzahl, Molly Kosiarek, Aida Behmard, Sam Grunblatt
U. Hawaii Weiss/Huber group, 2021
L to R: Dan Huber, Jingwen Zhang, Lauren Weiss, Casey Brinkman.
People
Graduate Students Supervised
David Shaw (2022-), Notre Dame
TBD
Casey Brinkman (2019-), U. Hawaii, PhD candidate
What is the diversity of rocky planet compositions and their connection to host star abundances?
Jingwen Zhang (2019-), U. Hawaii
Long-period Jovian Tilts the Orbits of Two sub-Neptunes Relative to Stellar Spin Axis in Kepler-129 (published in The Astronomical Journal)
Jack Lubin (2020-), UC Irvine
TESS-Keck Survey V: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Orbiting HD 191939 and the Discovery of Two Outer Jovians (accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, available on ArXiv)
Emma Turtelboom (2020-), UC Berkeley
TESS-Keck Survey XI: Mass diversity in four similarly sized sub-Neptunes
Sarah Blunt (2018-2019) , Caltech
Radial Velocity Discovery of an Eccentric Jovian World Orbiting at 18 AU (published in The Astronomical Journal)
Undergraduate Students Supervised
Andrew Langford (2021-), Notre Dame
Orbital Dynamics in Multi-Body Systems, Applied to Circumbinary Planets
Thomas Vandal (2018), U. Montreal
Masses and Orbits of the Beta Pictoris Planets
Merrin Peterson (2017), U. Montreal
Upper limits on spectral features from water in 51 Pegasi b from archival Keck-HIRES spectra (summer project)
Laura Daclison (2018), Waipahu High School
Maunakea Scholars Program: Properties of the Kepler Circumbinary Systems from Keck Observations
Resources
Research student contract
grad_student_contract.pdf