{"id":58060,"date":"2015-08-25T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58060"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:01:47","slug":"philip-muirhead","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/philip-muirhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Muirhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Muirhead is engaged in a number of research programs aimed at understanding the variety of extrasolar planets orbiting low-mass stars. He is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Boston University and the Principle Investigator of the Low-mass Start Group at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Group members lead surveys on a variety of telescopes to investigate properties of low-mass stars and their orbiting planets: space-based telescopes, large ground-based telescopes for spectroscopy and moderate-aperture telescopes for precise photometry.<\/p>\n<p>His research areas include: fundamental properties of low-mass stars, statistics and characteristics of exoplanets, stars and stellar evolution, and novel astronomical instrumentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70366,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58060\/revisions\/70366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}