Clarissa Do Ó
- Postdoctoral Fellow / CalTech Astronomy
Dr. Clarissa Do Ó is a B. Thomas Soifer (EXP) Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Dimitri Mawet on the direct imaging of exoplanets. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from UC San Diego, where she worked with Prof. Quinn Konopacky on the Gemini Planet Imager’s (GPI) pyramid wavefront sensor upgrade and on studying the orbit fitting and dynamics of directly imaged exoplanet systems under the National Science Foundation and San Diego Fellowships. She is interested in understanding the formation of widely separated gas giant planets (“exo-Jupiters”) found with direct imaging, and uses observational data from telescopes along with theoretical models.
Recommended grade levels for this talk: 6th-8th
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The Quest to Discover New Worlds: How We Take Pictures of Other Solar Systems
When we watch Star Wars or Star Trek, we see characters traveling between different solar systems, as if worlds that orbit around other stars are a given. But do the stars we see in the night sky really have their own planets, maybe even ones like Earth? Astronomers are on a quest to find that […]
