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]
Debra Ann Fischer | |
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 Fischer with a keplerian fit for υ And | |
| Born | 1951 |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa, San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Known for | Astronomy, Exoplanetology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Professor of Astronomy at Yale University |
Education edit
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.[3][4]
Research and career edit
Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf stars and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighborhood, including many on extrasolar planets. Her work "The Twenty Five Year Lick Planet Search" is summarized in a paper by Fischer, Marcy & Spronck 2014. She is a principal investigator with the N2K Consortium searching for exoplanets. She co-leads the planet search team with Gregory P. Laughlin and Jessi Cisewski looking for extrasolar planets.[2][5] She was the primary investigator for Chiron, the CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.[6] 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.
Honors and awards edit
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [7]
- 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8]
- Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2021[9]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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): 916–927. Bibcode:1999ApJ...526..916B. doi:10.1086/308035. S2CID 123172934.
- ^ a b Overbye, Dennis (12 May 2013). "Finder of New Worlds". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ "Radcliffe Institute Guest Lecturer Bio". Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
- ^ "Interview with D. Fisher, Planet-Hunter". theWoman Astronomer. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
- ^ "N2K Consortium". Yale astronomy. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "MRI: Development of Chiron: CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer". Research Commercialization and SBIR Center. San Francisco State University. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "2021 Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ^ "2021 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
