Elisabetta Caffau

Elisabetta Caffau is an astronomer who discovered a 13-billion-year-old,[1] low mass,[2] dwarf star named SDSS J102915+172927,[3] or Caffau's Star[4] in 2011.[5] She earned a PhD in observational astronomy from the Paris Observatory in 2009 and completed a one-year post-doctoral program there as well.[6] She received the Gliese fellowship Grant[7] in 2010 and was awarded the Merac Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher by the European Astronomical Society in 2013.[8]

References

  1. ^ "An Impossible Star". idw-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  2. ^ "Impossible Star Defies Astronomers' Theories". Space.com. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  3. ^ Bonifacio, P.; Caffau, E.; Spite, M.; Spite, F.; François, P.; Zaggia, S.; Arenou, F.; Haigron, R.; Leclerc, N. (2018-04-27). "Gaia confirms that SDSS J102915+172927 is a dwarf star". Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 2 (2): 19. arXiv:1804.10419. Bibcode:2018RNAAS...2...19B. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/aac0f4. S2CID 85449621.
  4. ^ Lemonick, Michael D. (2011-09-06). "Cosmic Anomaly: The Star That Shouldn't Exist". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  5. ^ Caffau, Elisabetta; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; François, Patrick; Sbordone, Luca; Monaco, Lorenzo; Spite, Monique; Spite, François; Ludwig, Hans-G.; Cayrel, Roger (September 2011). "An extremely primitive star in the Galactic halo". Nature. 477 (7362): 67–69. arXiv:1203.2612. Bibcode:2011Natur.477...67C. doi:10.1038/nature10377. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 21886158. S2CID 4314241.
  6. ^ Paris, Observatoire de. "European prizes : awarded to two female resarchers from (...) -". scolarite.obspm.fr. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  7. ^ "Universitat Heidelberg".[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ "MERAC - Dr. Elisabetta Caffau". www.merac.org (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-28.