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Debra Fischer

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This article is about the American astronomer and academic. For the United States senator, see Deb Fischer.
Not to be confused with Deborah Fisher Wharton (née Fisher).
Debra Ann Fischer
Debra Fischer
Fischer with a keplerian fit for υ And
Born1953
Alma materUniversity of Iowa, San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz
Known forAstronomy, Exoplanetology
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsProfessor of Astronomy at Yale University

Debra Ann Fischer is the Eugene Higgins professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She has detected hundreds of exoplanets and was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system.[1][2].

Education[edit]

Fischer received her degree from the University of Iowa in 1975, a masters of science in Physics from San Francisco State University in 1992, and her PhD in Astrophysics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998.[3][4]

Research and career[edit]

Fischer has co-authored over 300 papers on dwarf stars and exoplanets. In two papers with Jeff Valenti[5], she quantified a correlation between the chemical composition of host stars and the formation of orbiting gas giant planets[6][7]. She led the N2K Consortium with Gregory P. Laughlin, detecting dozens of exoplanets around metal-rich stars at Keck Observatory, Subaru Observatory, and the Magellan Observatory.[2][8]. Her work "The Twenty Five Year Lick Planet Search" is summarized in a 2014 paper [9]. In 2015, she organized a professional conference on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities at Yale University [10] and led the conference proceedings paper with 55 co-authors [11] Fischer has worked on instruments to improve measurement sensitivity for the detection of exoplanets. In 2011, she started the Fiber-optic Improved Next-generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths with the Planetary Society, an improvement to help planet hunters find Earth-like extrasolar planets. In 2014, she worked with colleagues at Yale University on a microcomb [12]. She was the principal investigator for three spectrographs: CHIRON, the CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.[13], VUES, the Vilnius University Echelle Spectrograph [14] and EXPRES, the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph [15]. Fischer and colleagues[16][17][18] have also helped to advance statistical and machine learning methods to improve data analysis and sensitivity to low mass planets. Fischer served as the Divsion Director at the National Science Foundation from 2021 - 2023[19]

Honors and awards[edit]

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References[edit]

  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): 916–927. Bibcode:1999ApJ...526..916B. doi:10.1086/308035. S2CID 123172934.
  2. ^ a b Overbye, Dennis (12 May 2013). "Finder of New Worlds". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Radcliffe Institute Guest Lecturer Bio". Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
  4. ^ "Interview with D. Fischer, Planet-Hunter". theWoman Astronomer. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
  5. ^ "DR. JEFF VALENTI".
  6. ^ "The Planet-Metallicity Correlation".
  7. ^ "Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars (SPOCS). I. 1040 F, G, and K Dwarfs from Keck, Lick, and AAT Planet Search Programs".
  8. ^ "N2K Consortium". Yale astronomy. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  9. ^ "The Twenty-five Year Lick Planet Search".
  10. ^ "The Extreme Precision Radial Velocities Workshop".
  11. ^ "State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities".
  12. ^ https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=cleopr-2015-27D2_5. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Text "title Red, Blue, Infrared Frequency Comb Generation" ignored (help)
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "Design and Construction of VUES: The Vilnius University Echelle Spectrograph".
  15. ^ "EXPRES: a next generation RV spectrograph in the search for earth-like worlds".
  16. ^ "Jessi Cisewski Kehe".
  17. ^ "Eric Ford".
  18. ^ "Lily Zhao, Ph.D."
  19. ^ "Appointment of Division Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences - Debra Fischer".
  20. ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  21. ^ "2021 Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  22. ^ "2021 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  23. ^ "Debra Ann Fischer".
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