Tabetha Boyajian
Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Tabetha Boyajian is a postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, and soon to be new faculty at Louisiana State University. My research interests involve determining the fundamental properties of stars and characterization of exoplanet host stars. My observing experience includes long baseline optical/infrared interferometry, and optical spectroscopy. I also work on modeling data from the Kepler space telescope for the PlanetHunters project. I am one of Connecticut Magazine's 40 under 40 for 2016.
Research Interest
Fundamental properties of stars: diameters, temperatures, exoplanet detection and characterization, Optical/IR interferometry, stellar spectroscopy (radial velocities, abundances, activity), absolute spectrophotometry, binary stars, astrometry, stellar ages and evolution, stellar activity and rotation, asteroseismology.
Publications
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Boyajian, Tabetha S.; van Belle, Gerard; von Braun, Kaspar “Stellar Diameters and Temperatures IV. Predicting Stellar Angular Diametersâ€, 2014, The Astronomical Journal, 147, 47
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Boyajian, Tabetha; von Braun, Kaspar; Feiden, Gregory A.; Huber, Daniel; Basu, Sarbani; Demarque, Pierre; Fischer, Debra A.; Schaefer, Gail; Mann, Andrew W.; White, Timothy R.; Maestro, Vicente; Brewer, John; Lamell, C. Brooke; Spada, Federico; LoÌpez-Morales, Mercedes; Ireland, Michael; Farrington, Chris; van Belle, Gerard T.; Kane, Stephen R.; Jones, Jeremy; ten Brummelaar, Theo A.; Ciardi, David R.; McAlister, Harold A.; Ridgway, Stephen; Goldfinger, P. J.; Turner, Nils H.; Sturmann, Laszlo “Stellar Diameters and Temperatures VI. High angular resolution measurements of the transiting exoplanet host stars HD 189733 and HD 209458 and implications for models of cool dwarfsâ€, 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, 850
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Boyajian, T. S.; LaCourse, D. M.; Rappaport, S. A.; Fabrycky, D.; Fischer, D. A.; Gandolfi, D.; Kennedy, G. M.; Liu, M. C.; Moor, A.; Olah, K.; Vida, K.; Wyatt, M. C.; Best, W. M. J.; Ciesla, F.; Csak, B.; Dupuy, T. J.; Handler, G.; Heng, K.; Korhonen, H.; Kovacs, J. Kozakis, T.; Kriskovics, L.; Schmitt, J. R.; Szabo, Gy.; Szabo, R.; Wang, J.; Goodman, S.; Hoekstra, A.; Jek, K. J. “Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 – Where’s the Flux?â€, Submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Sep 2015, (arXiv:1509.03622)
