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Eva-Maria Ahrer

I am a PhD student in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick, supervised by Prof Peter Wheatley.Link opens in a new window I am currently working on low and high resolution transmission spectroscopy data of exoplanet atmospheres e.g. as obtained with the EFOSC2 instrument at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile. In particular, I am looking at features in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters such as sodium absorption or Rayleigh scattering in the optical wavelength range.

I am also involved in the efforts of the JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science (ERS) team, in particular in the analysis of NIRCam data and in the development of the Eureka! pipelineLink opens in a new window.

Other research interests include stellar activity induced variations in stellar radial velocity (RV) data and their effects on accurate estimation of exoplanet characteristics. This also includes Bayesian model comparison with the nested sampling algorithm PolyChord. This follows my work during my research based Masters degree at the University of Cambridge under supervision of Prof Didier Queloz and Dr Vinesh Maguire-Rajpaul.

Publications

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Conferences/Meetings/Workshops

  • UK Exoplanet Community Meeting, University of Edinburgh, highlighted talk, 12 - 14 September 2022
  • Exoplanets IV Conference, Las Vegas, posters, available on Zenodo, 1 - 6 May 2022
  • JWST ERS Simulated Data Challenge #1, MPIA Heidelberg, 21 - 23 March 2022
  • ESO ATMO 2021: Atmospheres, Atmospheres! Do I look like I care about atmospheres?, virtual, talkLink opens in a new window, 23 - 27 August 2021
  • National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2021, University of Bath, virtual, talk, 19 - 23 July 2021
  • JWST ERS Pre-Launch Data Hackathon, virtual, 21 - 25 June 2021

  • IAU CAP 2021, virtual, talkLink opens in a new window, 24 - 27 May 2021
  • UK Exoplanet Community Meeting, University of Birmingham, virtual, talkLink opens in a new window, 22 April 2021
  • STScI Symposium: Towards the Comprehensive Characterization of Exoplanets - Science at the Interface of Multiple Measurement Techniques, virtual, poster, 19 - 23 April 2021
  • Solar-stellar connection summer school, virtual, posterLink opens in a new window, 14 - 18 September 2020
  • Exoplanets III Conference, virtual, posterLink opens in a new window, 27 - 31 July 2020
  • Sagan Summer School 2020 on Extreme Precision Radial Velocity, virtual, posterLink opens in a new window, 20 - 24 July 2020
  • UK Exoplanet Community Meeting, Imperial College London, poster, 15 - 17 April 2019

Seminar talks

  • TMT (Thirty Minute Talk), ESO Santiago, 14 February 2023
  • Early-Career Researcher Astrophysics Seminar, University of Oxford, 18 January 2023
  • Astroseminar, University of Exeter, 11 January 2023
  • Exoplanet Seminars, Observatoire de Geneve, 1 April 2022
  • eIAYC seminar series, International Workshop for Astronomy (IWA), 22 July 2021
  • Exoplanet Pizza Lunch, Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) | Harvard & Smithsonian, 23 March 2021
  • Planet Formation Group Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie (ZAH), 15 July 2020

Teaching, Observing, Outreach and Other

Portrait

Write to:

Eva-Maria (Evie) Ahrer (she/her),
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK