Tyler A. Gordon
Astronomy graduate student at the University of Washington with interests in stars, exoplanets, and exomoons.
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About
I grew up in Boise, Idaho and completed
my undergraduate degree at Boise State
University, majoring in physics and applied
mathematics with a minor in computer science.
In the fall of 2016 I entered the graduate
program in Astronomy at the University of
Washington. I'm also a member of UW's
Astrobiology program,
through which
I'm working to complete a dual-title
PhD in astronomy and astrobiology. In
addition to my research, I also help to
organize and occasionally speak at
Seattle's
Astronomy on Tap
and manage the
UW Planetarium.
Research
My research interests span all aspects of exoplanetary
systems, from host stars, to exoplanets themselves, and to
their potential companions, exomoons. During my PhD I've worked
on a method for mitigating the effects of stellar flicker in order
to enable detection of small bodies in high-precision light curves.
I've also used Gaussian processes to measure the rotation of thousands
of stars observed by K2. I'm currently interested in the ability of
JWST to detect exomoons.
For more information on my current projects,
see my research page.
Recent Papers
- T. A. Gordon, J. R. A. Davenport, R. Angus, D. Foreman-Mackey, et al., Stellar Rotation in the K2 Samples: Evidence for Broken Spindown
- T. A. Gordon, E. Agol, and D. Foreman-Mackey, A Fast, Two-dimensional Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
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