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Lisa Prato (middle) and DEFT:
Disks & Exoplanets Flagstaff Team
Lowell Observatory
1400 West Mars Hill Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
lprato[at]lowell[dot]edu
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Young Visual Binary Star Database
The NIRSPEC H-Band Radial Velocity Templates
Research Interests
My research is primarily on young binary stars, from studies of
their origin, evolution, and capacity for planet formation, to their
exploitation as a means of measuring mass ratios and masses.
Because most young stars are in gravitationally bound double systems, these
are important research areas. The smallest separation pairs, spectroscopic binaries,
with periods of a few days to years, are so interesting that
they've spawned additional projects for me on pre-main sequence and
main sequence M star spectroscopic binaries, young and
field brown dwarf spectroscopic binaries, and very old population II
spectroscopic binaries. Some of this work is described in the references listed
below. A lot of it is in progress. Much of it is being carried out by the
capable graduate and undergraduate students who I collaborate with.
Students
Paula Johns (BS, expected 2013)
Nicole Karnath (MS, expected 2013)
Dary Ruiz (MS, 2012)
Christopher Crockett (PhD, 2011)
Kendra Kellogg (BS, 2011)
Viviana Rosero (MS, 2010)
Gregory Mace (BS, 2008)
Emily Rice (MS, 2005)
Education/Experience
B.S.,
University of Massachusettes at Amherst
Instructor,
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1988—1991
Ph.D.,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1998
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of California at Los Angeles, 1998—2004
Assistant Astronomer,
Lowell Observatory, 2004—2010
Astronomer,
Lowell Observatory, 2010—present
CV in pdf format
ADS Publications
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Last modified: 9/7/2012
lprato[at]lowell[dot]edu