Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT Kavli Institue for Astrophysics and Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Room 37-664h
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-3429
Electronic mail: blane at dot mit dot remove me edu <- obfuscated for spam reasons...
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Publications (html)
ADS or Arxiv lists
Personal
Info: I am a planetary scientist post-docing at MIT. I am
involved in a
number of projects, primarily aimed at finding and characterizing
extra-solar planets.
I did my graduate studies in the Caltech Planetary Science department, working with Prof. Shri Kulkarni on a number of projects including interferometric observations of Cepheids and low-mass stars, adaptive-optics observations of brown dwarfs, and instrumental development for the Keck and Palomar Testbed Interferometers. Before graduate school I worked for Dr. Mark Colavita at JPL on interferometry. I obtained an undergraduate degree (B.S. with Honors) in Astronomy from Caltech in 1997. Before that I lived in a number of places, including Sweden, France, and the U.S.
- Nulling Interferometry
- On a Sounding Rocket
- For NASAs Terrestrial Planet Finder Project (RIP).
- A Space-based Transit Search for Extra-Solar Planets
- Ground-based Micro-arcsecond
Astrometry to Search for
Extra-Solar Planets
- Infrared Interferometry of Protoplanetary Disks
- Interferometric Observations
of
- Novae
- Cepheids (distance and radius
determinations using the
direct Baade-Wesselink method)
- Low-Mass Stars (radius measurement of the lower main sequence)
- Binary Stars (mass-luminosity measurements)
- Observations of the Brown-Dwarf Binary system GJ 569B using Adaptive Optics
