Debra Fischer

Debra Ann Fischer

Debra Fischer

Fischer with a keplerian fit for υ And
Fields Astronomy
Institutions Currently Professor of Astronomy at Yale University as profesor of astronomy, San Francisco State University
Alma mater University of Iowa, San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz
Known for Astronomy
This article is about the American astronomer and academic. For the United States senator, see Deb Fischer. For people with similar names, see Deborah Fisher (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][2]

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][3] She was the primary investigator for Chiron, the CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.[4] 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 degree 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. [5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Butler, Paul; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Fischer, Debra A.; Brown, Timothy M.; Contos, Adam R.; Korzennik, Sylvain G.; Nisenson, Peter; Noyes, Robert W. (December 1999). "Evidence for Multiple Companions to υ Andromedae". The Astrophysical Journal 526 (2): 916&ndash927. Bibcode:1999ApJ...526..916B. doi:10.1086/308035.
  2. 1 2 Overbye, Dennis (12 May 2013). "Finder of New Worlds". New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "N2K Consortium". Yale astronomy. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "MRI: Development of Chiron: CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer". Research Commercialization and SBIR Center. San Francisco State University. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Radcliffe Institute Guest Lecturer Bio". Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
  6. ↑ "Interview with D. Fisher, Planet-Hunter". theWoman Astronomer. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
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