Education
- Yale University Aug. 2016 - Jun. 2021 Ph.D. Astronomy Dissertation: The Path to Extreme Precision Radial Velocity With EXPRES
- University of Chicago Oct. 2012 - Jun. 2016 B.A. Biological Sciences, B.A. Physics, B.S. Mathematics
First-Author Publications
A full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar
- Zhao, L.L., Hogg, D.W., Bedell, M., Luger, R. "Capturing Stellar Surface Variations at the Spectral Level" in prep.
- Zhao, L.L., Dumusque, X., Ford, E., et al. "Comparison of Solar Data from HARPS, HARPS-N, EXPRES, and NEID" accepted
- Zhao, L.L., Kunovac-Hodzic, V., Brewer, J.M., et al. "Measured Spin-Orbit Alignment of Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth 55~Cnc~e" 2023, Nature Astronomy, 7, 198
- Zhao, L.L., Fischer, D.A., Henry, G.W., et al. "The EXPRES Stellar-Signals Project II. State of the Field of Disentangling Photospheric Velocities" 2022, AJ, 163, 171
- Zhao, L.L., Hogg, D.W., Bedell, M., Fischer, D.A. "Excalibur: A Non-Parametric, Hierarchical Wavelength-Calibration Method for a Precision Spectrograph" 2021, AJ, 161, 80
- Zhao, L.L., Fischer, D.A., Ford, E., Henry, G.W., Rottenbacher, R.M., Brewer, J.M. "The EXPRES Stellar-Signals Project I. Description of Data" 2020, RNAAS, 4, 156
- Petersburg, R.R., Ong, J.M.J., Zhao, L.L., et al. "An Extreme-Precision Radial-Velocity Pipeline: First Radial Velocities from EXPRES" 2020, AJ, 159, 187 (Contributions were equally split among the first three authors)
- Zhao, L.L., Fischer, D., Brewer, J., Giguere, M., \& Rojas-Ayala, B. "Planet Detectability in the Alpha Centauri System" 2018, AJ, 155, 24
Honors & Awards
- Third Place, Three Minute Thesis Competition, Yale University 2020
- Sheldon Wise Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University 2018
- Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation 2016
- Google Earth Engine Scholarship, Google 2015
