Abhijith Rajan – Resume, Curriculum Vitae, Publication List (updated Apr 2018)
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, MD 21210
arajan at stsci dot edu
phone: (667) 218-6482
Positions:
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Space Telescope Science Institute | 2017 – present |
| Research Assistant | Arizona State University | 2012 – present |
| Research & Instr. Analyst | Space Telescope Science Institute | 2008 – 2012 |
| Head Teaching Assistant | San Diego State University | 2007 – 2008 |
Education:
| Ph.D. (Astronomy) | Arizona State University | 2012 – 2017 |
| M. S. (Astronomy) | San Diego State University | 2005 – 2008 |
| B. Engg. (Instrumentation) | University of Pune, India | 1999 – 2004 |
Awards and Service:
| Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize: Honorable Mention | 2018 |
| NASA Keck Grant | 2016 – 2017 |
| AAS Astronomy Ambassador | 2012 – 2013 |
| HST Grant – Determining the Atmospheric Properties of Directly Imaged Planets | 2011 – 2014 |
| Graduate & Professional Student Assoc. – Travel Grant Reviewer | 2012 – present |
| HST Time Allocation Committee Support | 2010 |
Publications:
1 – Characterizing 51 Eri b from 1 to 5 micron: A Partly Cloudy Exoplanet – Rajan, A., Rameau, R., De Rosa, R.J., Marley, M.S., et al., 2017, AJ, 154, 10
2 – Exoplanet Meteorology: Characterizing the Atmospheres of Directly Imaged Sub-Stellar Objects– Rajan, A., 2017, Ph.D.~Thesis, 10.5281/zenodo.804060
3 – Characterizing the Atmospheres of the HR8799 Planets with HST/WFC3 – Rajan, A., Barman, T., Soummer, R., Brendan H., J., Patience, J., Pueyo, L., Choquet, E., Konopacky, Q., Macintosh, B., Marois, C., 2015, ApJL, 809, 33
4 – The Brown-dwarf Atmosphere Monitoring (BAM) Project II: Multi-Epoch Monitoring of Extremely Cool Brown Dwarfs – Rajan, A., Patience, J., Wilson, P. A., Pont, F., De Rosa, R. J., Morley, C.V., Fortney, J., 2015, MNRAS, 448, 2618
5 – The Brown dwarf Atmosphere Monitoring (BAM) Project I: The largest near-IR monitoring survey of L- & T-dwarfs – Wilson, P. A., Rajan, A., Patience, J. 2014, A&A, 566, 111
6 – Orbital Motion of HR 8799 b,c, d using Hubble Space Telescope data from 1998: Constraints on Inclination, Eccentricity and Stability – Soummer, R., Brendan H.J., Pueyo, L., Thormann, A., Rajan, A., Marois, C., 2011 ApJ, 741, 55
7 – Wide Field Camera 3 Data Handbook, v2.0 – Rajan, A., and the WFC3 team, 2010 STScI
8 – Parameters and Predictions for the Long-Period Transiting Planet HD 17156b – Irwin, J., Charbonneau, D., Nutzman, P., Welsh, W.F., Rajan, A., Hidas, M., Brown, T.M., Lister, T.A., Davies, D., Laughlin, G., Langton, J., 2008 ApJ, 681, 636
