The BDNYC team is thrilled to congratulate Dr. Jackie Faherty and Dr. Kelle Cruz for both being named Fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in 2022.
Kelle Cruz and Jackie Faherty
BDNYC Co-Founders Named 2022 AAS Fellows
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BDNYC Team Submission Selected for NASA’s XRP Grant
The BDNYC team’s project proposal entitled “Read Between the Lines: Determining Atmosphere and Bulk Compositions for Planetary Mass Objects Using Spectral Retrievals” was selected for a NASA Exoplanets Research Program (XRP) grant.
Parameters to consider in spectral retrievals of directly-imaged exoplanet atmospheres. These include a parameterized P-T profile, gas species (pink), various cloud models (center grey), and a disequilibrium chemistry option (aqua).
BDNYC Member Paper Explores How the Lowest Mass Stars Spin
BDNYC member and fourth year CUNY graduate student Mark Popinchalk has recently posted a first-author paper which explores the tricky territory of M dwarf rotation rates.
Figure 1: the complexity of the evolution of M dwarfs at these ages.
BDNYC Artist-in-Residence Wins NYFA Award
The BDNYC team is thrilled to announce that our artist-in-residence, Janani Balasubramanian, has been awarded a 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, for an excerpted draft from their brown dwarf-themed novel, Harold & Okno.
Janani Balasubramanian
BDNYC Team Member Graduating and Moving to California
The BDNYC team is pleased to announce that Rocio Kiman will be defending her PhD dissertation on July 16, 2021, and has accepted postdoc positions at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the California Institute of Technology.
Rocio Kiman
BDNYC Members Help Lead Pilot Education Program CosmoAmautas
No matter where we live in the world, to look up at the night sky and wonder about our place in the universe is human. “We are all looking at the same sky,” says Lisseth Gonzales Quevedo, a Bachelor of Physics at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima, Peru. It is through this inherently human fascination for the universe that two BDNYC members are helping to bring scientific thought to the children and youth of Peru.
BDNYC Members Announce Grad School Decisions
The BDNYC team is delighted to share the graduate school decisions of three of our members: Elena Litvinova Mitra, Jose I. Adorno, and Austin Rothermich.
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- Elena Litvinova Mitra
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- Jose I. Adorno
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- Austin Rothermich
Brown Dwarf-Inspired Mural Painted in Brooklyn, NY
In a celebratory tribute to women in science, passersby to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City can now enjoy a visually stunning and AR-enabled mural inspired by the research of BDNYC co-founder Dr. Jackie Faherty, and our very own enigmas of the Galaxy—brown dwarfs.
“A Cluster of Enigmas”
Two BDNYC Alumni Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowships
The BDNYC group is excited to congratulate two alumni members on their National Science Fellowship (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards! Victoria DiTomasso and Allison (Allie) McCarthy have both won NSF GRFP fellowships for the 2021 award year.
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- Victoria DiTomasso
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- Allison McCarthy
BDNYC at AAS 235
The group BDNYC is going to be presenting at the meeting AAS 235 amazing projects. Checkout the talks, posters and iposters and the dates they are going to be presented.
Click more to see the posters from the group.