New Horizons - NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
Starting as a part of STScI's Summer 2017 student program, I have worked with data from the New Horizons mission to better understand nitrogen - the dominant component of Pluto's surface and atmosphere - and the factors that influence its transport across the surface, through an analysis of the LEISA infrared hyperspectral data and related composition maps, as well as volatile transport modeling. My initial presentation for the summer program can be viewed on STScI's archive. New papers coming from this soon, so stay tuned!
Starting as a part of STScI's Summer 2017 student program, I have worked with data from the New Horizons mission to better understand nitrogen - the dominant component of Pluto's surface and atmosphere - and the factors that influence its transport across the surface, through an analysis of the LEISA infrared hyperspectral data and related composition maps, as well as volatile transport modeling. My initial presentation for the summer program can be viewed on STScI's archive. New papers coming from this soon, so stay tuned!
Project 1640 - Toward Exploration of Other Worlds
Beginning as an REU student at the American Museum of Natural History in Summer 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer, I have been a part of Project 1640, a high contrast imaging instrument at Palomar Observatory in CA, used to conduct a survey of nearly 200 nearby stars to search for exoplanets and brown dwarfs. I have worked on various aspects of the survey, including selecting targets and staffing observing runs with the instrument, processing data, and spectral characterization.
Beginning as an REU student at the American Museum of Natural History in Summer 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer, I have been a part of Project 1640, a high contrast imaging instrument at Palomar Observatory in CA, used to conduct a survey of nearly 200 nearby stars to search for exoplanets and brown dwarfs. I have worked on various aspects of the survey, including selecting targets and staffing observing runs with the instrument, processing data, and spectral characterization.
Photos courtesy of NASA/SWRI/New Horizons & Project 1640.
