Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech

I am a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech where I work on instruments for observing exoplanets. I am interested in studying exoplanet atmospheres with dedicated instrument designs such as multiband photometers that achieve high resolution over multiple bands by utilizing narrowband interference filters. I also investigate new ways to model Earth's atmospheric absorption in high resolution radial velocity data so that we can obtain more precise mass measurements of these distant worlds.

I earned my bachelors degree in physics from UNC Chapel Hill in 2014 then completed my PhD in the Physics & Astronomy department at the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation was on developing new telluric correction methods for high precision radial velocity measurements and development and testing of a novel multi-band photometer that could be applied to high efficiency detection of exoplanet atmospheres.

email: abaker (at) caltech.edu