Rebecca Oppenheimer

Rebecca Oppenheimer
Born1972 (age 52–53)
New York, New York
Alma mater
Known forAstrophysics
Cosmology
Activism
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, chemistry, materials science
InstitutionsAmerican Museum of Natural History
Columbia University
Thesis Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars  (1999)
Doctoral advisorS. R. Kulkarni
Gibor Basri (postdoc)

Rebecca Oppenheimer is an American astrophysicist and one of four curator/professors in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Oppenheimer is a comparative exoplanetary scientist. She investigates planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. Her optics laboratory is the birthplace of a number of new astronomical instruments designed to tackle the problem of directly seeing and taking spectra of nearby solar systems with exoplanets and studying their composition, with the ultimate goal of finding life outside the solar system.[1][2]

Early life and education

Oppenheimer attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx. After graduating in 1990, she attended Columbia University, where she was an I. I. Rabi Science Scholar. She received a B.A. in Physics from Columbia in 1994.[3] In 1999 she was granted a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology and spent the following two years at the University of California at Berkeley on a Hubble Space Telescope Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. In 2001, she moved back to New York City to research at the AMNH, where she joined the faculty in 2004. Oppenheimer regularly gives public and professional lectures on astronomical research.

Career

Oppenheimer holds an adjunct professorship at Columbia University's Department of Astronomy and has published over two hundred and sixty research and public-oriented science articles, with an h-index over 55 and more than 10,000 citations.[4] She holds three patents, is the co-discoverer of the first brown dwarf, Gliese 229B,[5][6] and is active in research on exoplanets. She has led or co-led many novel instrumentation projects, including the Lyot Project,[7] Project 1640,[8] the Gemini Planet Imager,[9] Palomar Adaptive Optics,[10] and the Palomar Advanced Radial Velocity Instrument.[11]

Oppenheimer also works on ultracool white dwarfs,[12] the end states of 99% of stars, including the Sun, their role in comprising the baryonic dark matter,[13] as well as coronagraphy, the art of seeing faint celestial objects next to bright ones.[14] Oppenheimer has served on numerous NASA advisory committees including the TPF Science and Technology Definition Team,[15] The NASA Astrophysics Senior review for 2014, 2016 (Chair), and 2019,[16] as well as various NSF and NRC committees. Oppenheimer has been a member of NASA's Exoplanet Technology Assessment Committee since 2015.[17]

She is an active member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union. She is a member of the A, B, C, D, F, and G affiliations within the IAU.[18]

Oppenheimer's education-related efforts at the AMNH include curating the AstroBulletin series of news items and bi-annual documentaries. She is also Curator-in-Charge of the Digital Universe Atlas. She co-curated the space show Journey to the Stars and curated the exhibit Searching for New Worlds. Her video, "The Known Universe,"[19] created as part of an exhibit with the Rubin Museum, is an early example of a science video going viral on YouTube in 2009.

According to Google Scholar, Oppenheimer's peer-reviewed articles as of 2021 have been cited 10,878 times. Her h-index is 55 and i10-index is 133.[20]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Oppenheimer grew up in the Upper West Side in Manhattan, NY.[26] Oppenheimer is a trans woman and an activist for the rights of LGBT people.[27] She came out in 2014[26] and was featured in a New York Times piece where she wrote about being transgender and a scientist.[28]

References

  1. ^ "Rebecca Oppenheimer". the Guardian. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  2. ^ "Profile: Rebecca Oppenheimer | Astrophysics". research.amnh.org. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  3. ^ Hutson, Matthew (Winter 2020). "Star Search". Columbia College Today. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  4. ^ "Oppenheimer CV" (PDF).
  5. ^ Nakajima, T.; et al. (1995-11-20). "Discovery of a cool brown dwarf". Nature. 378 (6556). Nature Publishing Group: 463–465. Bibcode:1995Natur.378..463N. doi:10.1038/378463a0. S2CID 4351772.
  6. ^ Oppenheimer, B. R.; et al. (1995-12-01). "Infrared Spectrum of the Cool Brown Dwarf Gl 229B". Science. 270 (5241). Science Magazine: 1478–1479. Bibcode:1995Sci...270.1478O. doi:10.1126/science.270.5241.1478. PMID 7491492. S2CID 45078715.
  7. ^ "The Lyot Project Website". January 2004.
  8. ^ "Project 1640". March 2013.
  9. ^ "Gemini Planet Imager". March 2018.
  10. ^ "PalomarAO".
  11. ^ Gibson, Rose K.; Oppenheimer, Rebecca; Matthews, Christopher T.; Vasisht, Gautam (November 2019). "PARVI". Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 6 (1): 011002. arXiv:1911.04567. doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.6.1.011002. S2CID 207863665.
  12. ^ Oppenheimer, B. R.; Saumon, D.; Hodgkin, S. T.; Jameson, R. F.; Hambly, N. C.; Chabrier, G.; Filippenko, A. V.; Coil, A. L.; Brown, M. E. (20 March 2001). "Ultracool White Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal. 550 (1): 448. arXiv:astro-ph/0101258. doi:10.1086/319718. S2CID 38820978.
  13. ^ Oppenheimer, B. R.; Hambly, N. C.; Digby, A. P.; Hodgkin, S. T.; Saumon, D. (2001). "Direct Detection of Galactic Halo Dark Matter". Science. 292 (5517): 698–702. arXiv:astro-ph/0104293. Bibcode:2001Sci...292..698O. doi:10.1126/science.1059954. PMID 11264524. S2CID 18882777.
  14. ^ Overbye, Dennis (2004-06-22). "Grasping for Light of Distant Worlds". New York Times.
  15. ^ "Terrestrial Planet Finder Science and Technology Definition Team". March 2005. Archived from the original on 2004-04-09.
  16. ^ "NASA Astrophysics Senior Reviews".
  17. ^ "NASA ExoTAC".
  18. ^ "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  19. ^ "The Known Universe". YouTube. 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13.
  20. ^ "Rebecca Oppenheimer". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  21. ^ "The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists | The New York Academy of Sciences". nyas. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  22. ^ "Listing of all Hubble Fellows 1990-2017". www.stsci.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  23. ^ "Hubble Fellowships". www.stsci.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  24. ^ "Home - NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)". www.nsfgrfp.org. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  25. ^ "I.I. Rabi Scholars Program | Columbia College". www.college.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  26. ^ a b "Star Search". Columbia College Today. 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  27. ^ Schmelz, Joan (2015-04-27). "Women In Astronomy: The Limits of Labels, Categories, and Classifications". Women In Astronomy. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  28. ^ "Opinion | Transgender Lives: Your Stories: Rebecca Oppenheimer". The New York Times. 2018-09-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-30.

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