Judith Gamora Cohen

Judith Gamora Cohen
Born 1946 [1]
New York City
Nationality American
Alma mater Radcliffe College, California Institute of Technology
Known for Being one of the designers of the Keck observatory
Awards Ernest F. Fullam Award of the Dudley Observatory
Scientific career
Fields Astronomy
Institutions University of California Berkeley, Kitt Peak National Observatory, California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Guido Munch
Website https://www.pma.caltech.edu/content/judith-g-cohen and http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~jlc/

Judith Gamora Cohen is the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology.

She holds a BA from Radcliffe College, a PhD from Caltech, and a BS from the University of Arizona. Her research in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies has included developing instrumentation for the Keck observatory and leading the Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey,[2] with more than 200 published papers.[3]

She has given the Caroline Herschel Distinguished Lecture at Space Telescope Science Institute and the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Distinguished Lecture at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University.

Some of her research has been described in the popular press. Using laser-guided adaptive optics at the Keck observatory, she showed that several unlikely tight clusters of stars orbiting the Andromeda galaxy were not actually clusters at all.[4] Together with Evan Kirby, she has studied the mass of nearby dwarf galaxy Triangulum II, showing that this galaxy has a surprisingly large mass for its number of visible stars, making it a candidate dark matter galaxy.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Cohen, Judith G. (Judith Gamora), 1946- Alternative names. "Cohen, Judith G. (Judith Gamora), 1946". Socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  2. ↑ "Judith Gamora Cohen" (PDF). www.astro.caltech.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Judith Gamora Cohen Bibliography" (PDF). www.astro.caltrch.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Irion, Robert (2006-02-03). "Laser Points to Bright New Era for Ground-Based Astronomy | Science". Science.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  5. ↑ "A nearby dark matter galaxy? | Science Wire". EarthSky. 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  6. ↑ "Dark matter dominates in nearby dwarf galaxy". www.sciencedaily.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.