Dr. Koerner's
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Physics & Astronomy
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Graduate
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SIRTF Legacy
Research
Nearby Stars
ASPENS
Astrobiology

Research Students
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  • Grad Student Zahed Wahaj works on Keck imaging of circumstellar disks and simulations of SIRTF c2d data.

  • Grad Student James Keller works on NOAO spectroscopy of the c2d Weakline T Tauri Stars sample.

  • Grad Student Peter Allen carried out most of the observing for the NOAO spectroscopy and models the luminosity function of substellar dwarfs

  • Grad Student Lucas Fuhrman carries out observations and database analysis with the ASPENS project

  • Undergraduate Student Jeremy Jacobsen carries out observations and data reduction for the ASPENS project, and works on data entry for the Nstars Database

  • Undergraduate Student Carolyn Parker carries out observations and data reduction for the ASPENS project, and works on data entry for the Nstars Database

  • REU/Berkeley student Brandon Swift works on database modeling of infrared excess from circumstellar disks.


Former Research Students



  • Kayhan Gultekin (Penn Class of 1999) is now an astrophysics grad student at University of Maryland working on theoretical simulations of black holes.

  • Tim Guild (Penn Class of 2000) is now a grad student in astronomy at Boston University working on planetary magnetospheres

  • Kelle Cruz (Penn Class of 2001) is now an astronomy grad student at the University of Pennsylvania working on completing the census of nearby low-luminosity dwarfs

  • Mike McElwain (Penn Class of 2001) is now an astronomy grad student at UCLA working on the multiplicity of L and T Dwarfs.

  • Rick Murphy (Penn Class of 2002) is currently an astronomy grad student at University of Maryland and works on the U Maryland branch of the c2d SIRTF Legacy Team

  • Nina Bonaventura (Penn Class of 2002) is now a grad student in astronomy at Boston University

  • Natalie Ostroff (Penn Class of 2002) will begin in Fall 2003 as a grad student at UC San Diego

  • Ian Kaplan (Penn Class of 2003) will hopefully be going to NAU in the Fall and move to the top of the page!!!