Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi
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Dr. Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi is an assistant professor of astronomy at the Amherst College. Her research focuses on brown dwarfs, especially the formation, evolution and the atmosphere of these objects.[1]
She was born in Lima, Peru, a "country with no professional astronomy".[2] She started college at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and then transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3] She earned her BS in physics at MIT and her PhD at UC San Diego.[2] She did five years of postdoctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, before accepting an assistant position at the Amherst College.[4] She is a former member of the UC San Diego Cool Star Lab.[5]
Her early research involved low-mass binary stars and brown dwarfs.[6] She was for example the lead author of the discovery of WISE J135501.90-825838.9, which later turned out to be a likely binary of planetary-mass objects with a masses of 11 and 9 MJ.[7][8] In 2020 she was the lead author of the paper announcing the discovery of WISEA J083011.95+283716.0, which was discovered by volunteers of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project.[9] She also led a paper researching the planets around 14 Herculis. This paper disentangled the mass and inclination of both planets, finding a misalignment in their inclination.[10][2]
Bardalez Gagliuffi is also interested in improving the science education in her home country Peru. She is one of the co-founder of the CosmoAmautas program, which is an educational program aimed to increase math and science literacy in Peru, as well as increasing interest in astronomy in the country.[3][11]
References
- ↑ "Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi : Department of Astronomy : UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- 1 2 3 "Dr. Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi". daniellabardalezgagliuffi.github.io. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- 1 2 "BDNYC Members Help Lead Pilot Education Program CosmoAmautas | BDNYC". bdnyc.org. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- ↑ "BDNYC Team Members Launch Into New Positions | BDNYC". bdnyc.org. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- ↑ "UCSD Cool Star Lab - Members". www.coolstarlab.org. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- ↑ "Research – Daniella C Bardalez Gagliuffi". daniella.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-01-21. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- ↑ Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C.; Gagné, Jonathan; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Burgasser, Adam J. (February 2018). "An L+T Spectral Binary with Possible AB Doradus Kinematics". The Astrophysical Journal. 854 (2): 101. arXiv:1801.06134. Bibcode:2018ApJ...854..101B. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa961. ISSN 0004-637X.
- ↑ Theissen, Christopher A.; Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Gagné, Jonathan; Burgasser, Adam (May 2020). "WISE J135501.90-825838.9 is a Nearby, Young, Extremely Low-mass Substellar Binary". Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 4 (5): 67. arXiv:2005.07096. Bibcode:2020RNAAS...4...67T. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab91c4. ISSN 2515-5172.
- ↑ Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Schneider, Adam C.; Meisner, Aaron; Caselden, Dan; Colin, Guillaume; Goodman, Sam; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Kuchner, Marc; Gagné, Jonathan; Logsdon, Sarah E.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Allers, Katelyn; Debes, John; Wisniewski, John (June 2020). "WISEA J083011.95+283716.0: A Missing Link Planetary-mass Object". The Astrophysical Journal. 895 (2): 145. arXiv:2004.12829. Bibcode:2020ApJ...895..145B. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8d25. ISSN 0004-637X.
- ↑ Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Li, Yiting; Brandt, Timothy D.; Williams, Lauryn; Brandt, G. Mirek; Gelino, Christopher R. (December 2021). "14 Her: A Likely Case of Planet-Planet Scattering". The Astrophysical Journal. 922 (2): L43. arXiv:2111.06004. Bibcode:2021ApJ...922L..43B. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac382c. ISSN 0004-637X.
- ↑ "COSMOamautas - Instructores". www.cosmoamautas.org. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
External links
- Interview with Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi on astrobites in Spanish
- Video about brown dwarfs by the youtuber Dianna Cowern, featuring an interview with Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi
- Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi publications indexed by Google Scholar
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