Ashley Baker

Instrument Scientist

Phone: 626-395-4970

Office: Cahill Astrophysics (17)

Mail Code: MC 11-17

I am interested in aiding ground-based exoplanet characterization surveys through new instrumentation and a better understanding of the impact of Earth's atmosphere, or tellurics, on such high-precision measurements. The former includes developing higher throughput instruments for performing transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets to study their atmospheres as well as designing auxiliary spectrographs for radial velocity instruments that expand the survey's spectral range to monitor key stellar activity signatures.

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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 high throughput, multi-band photometer that could enable higher efficiency detection of exoplanet atmospheres.