Researchers in the Department of Astronomy at Boston University are engaged in a number of programs to understand how stars, their protoplanetary disks and their orbiting exoplanets form and evolve.
Faculty with Related Research
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Chuanfei Dong
Assistant Professor
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Catherine Espaillat
Professor;
Director, Institute for Astrophysical Research
| Research Interests:
star–terrestrial planet interactions in our Solar System and beyond; magnetic reconnection, turbulence, wave–particle interactions, and collisionless shocks; physics-informed machine learning and AI for Science; laboratory astrophysics and high-intensity laser–plasma interactions |
Research Interests:
young stars, planet formation, circumstellar disk structure and evolution, multiwavelength variability, radiative transfer modeling |
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JJ Hermes
Associate Professor
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Philip Muirhead
Associate Professor;
Director, Perkins Telescope Observatory
| Research Interests:
high-precision observations of the endpoints of stars, planets, and binary systems, asteroseismology, time-domain astrophysics, space-based photometry, persistent gravitational wave sources |
Research Interests:
exoplanets, low-mass stars, instrumentation |
| Research Interests:
computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and solar-like stars |
Research Facilities
We make heavy use of both ground and space-based telescopes including:
- the Hubble Space Telescope
- the Spitzer Space Telescope
- our own Perkins Telescope Observatory, a 1.8m optical-infrared facility outside Flagstaff, AZ
- shared facilities at Lowell Observatory:
- the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope (formerly Discovery Channel Telescope)
- the 42-inch Hall Telescope
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