Dr. Peter Plavchan
(email | twitter | facebook | long form CV)

Staff Scientist
IPAC/Caltech
2008-current

NASA Exoplanet Archive
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI)

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (Exo-PAG) Executive Committee member, 2012-2015

MINERVA project member

LSST Stellar Populations Science Collaboration member

Address:
770 S Wilson Ave
Pasadena, CA 91125
(626)234-1628

Education:
Postdoctoral Scholar, IPAC/Caltech, 2006-2008
PhD, UCLA 2006 (thesis)
MS, UCLA 2003
BS, Caltech 2001 		Research Interests:
  • Extrasolar Planets
  • M Dwarfs
  • Debris Disks
  • Primordial Disks
The methodology:
  • Radial Velocity
  • Optical-IR variability
  • Mid-IR excess
  • Transits
Skill set:
  • Novel approaches and interpretation
  • Near-IR radial velocity instrumentation
  • Time series analysis
  • Statistical analysis
  • Observational Astronomy from 0.5 to 70 microns
I enjoy being creative, even if I am wrong 9 times out of 10. That one good idea is worth it.
Publications: NASA ADS | astro-ph | h-index: 14

Select First and Second Author Pubs:
2013 - Validation of Kepler Objects of Interest Stellar Parameters from Observed Transit Durations (PASP, submitted)
2013 - A Long Term Study of the Near-IR Variability in the Molecular Cloud Rho Ophiuchus (ApJS, submitted)
2013 - The Identification of 92.3 Day Periodic Photometric Variability For YSO YLW 16A (A&A)
2013 - Stars Don't Eat Their Young Migrating Planets - Empirical Constraints On Planet Migration Halting Mechanisms (ApJ)
2013 - Period Error Estimation for the Kepler Eclipsing Binary Catalog (AJ)
2013 - How can we use HPC platforms to help dig out new exoplanets? (ISGTW)
2012 - Design and Construction of Absorption Cells for Precision Radial Velocities in the K band using Methane Isotopologues (PASP)
2010 - Deep NIR Imaging of the Rho Oph Cloud Core (ApJ)
2010 - Young Stars in the Time Domain: A CS16 Splinter Summary (ApJ)
2009 - New Debris Disks Around Young, Low Mass Stars Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope (ApJ)
2008 - The Peculiar Periodic YSO WL 4 in Rho Ophiuchus (ApJL)
2008 - Near-IR Variability in the 2MASS Calibration Fields: A Search for Planetary Transit Candidates (ApJS)
2008 - A Spitzer Study of Debris Disks in the Young Nearby Cluster NGC 2232 (ApJ)
2006 - M Dwarf Planetary Systems (PhD Dissertation)
2005 - Where are the M Dwarf Disks Older Than 10 Million Years? (ApJ)
2005 - The Case of the Missing Disks (AAS Press Release)
2004 - Globular Cluster Formation in M82 (ApJ)

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