Debra Fischer

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Debra Ann Fischer
Debra Fischer

Fischer with a keplerian fit for υ And
Fields Astronomy
Institutions Yale University, San Francisco State University
Alma mater University of Iowa, San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz
This article is about the American astronomer and academic. For other uses, see Debra Fischer (disambiguation).

Debra Ann Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system.[1]

Research and career

Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf stars and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighborhood, including many on extrasolar planets. She is a principal investigator with the N2K Consortium searching for exoplanets. She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets.[2] She was the primary investigator for Chiron, the CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.[3] In 2011, she started the Fiber-optic Improved Next-generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths with the Planetary Society, an instrument that will help planet hunters find Earth-like extrasolar planets.

Education

Fischer received her bachelor of science from the University of Iowa in 1975, a masters of science from San Francisco State University in 1992, and her PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley while managing the Lick Observatory planet search program.[4][5]

Family

Fischer has three children.

References

  1. ↑ Butler, Paul; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Fischer, Debra A.; Brown, Timothy M.; Contos, Adam R.; Korzennik, Sylvain G.; Nisenson, Peter; Noyes, Robert W. "Evidence for Multiple Companions to υ Andromedae". Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  2. ↑ "N2K Consortium". Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
  3. ↑ "Research Commercialization and SBIR Center". 
  4. ↑ "Radcliffe Institute Guest Lecturer Bio". Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
  5. ↑ "Interview with D. Fisher, Planet-Hunter". 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 

See also

  • List of stars with confirmed planets
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