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Chris McCarthy

Current Status

Research Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
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Education

B.A.: Dbl. Major in Physics & Astronomy, U.C. Berkeley,1990
M.S.: Physics, San Francisco State University, 1995
M.S.: Astronomy, U.C. Los Angeles, 1997
PhD.: Astronomy, U.C. Los Angeles, finished 2001

Research Interests

Brown Dwarf and Extra-solar planet Detection. Stellar Spectroscopy.
Master's Thesis: Transformation of Doppler Shifts to the Solar System Barycenter.

(Abstract)

Second Year Research Project: Survey of the Solar Neighboorhood for Substellar Companions.
PhD. Dissertation Topic: Search for Substellar Companions to Nearby Young Stars

Publications

1999 Discovery of Seven T Tauri Stars and a Brown Dwarf Candidate in the Nearby TW Hydrae Association. (With Webb, R.; Zuckerman, B.; Platais, I.; Patience, J.; White, R. ; Schwartz, M.) (ps format) ApJ Letters. 512L 63, 1999
1999 A Candidate Substellar Companion to CD -33 7795 (TWA 5) (with P. J. Lowrance, E. E. Becklin, B. Zuckerman, G. Schneider, R.A. Webb, D. Hines, J. D. Kirkpatrick, D. Koerner, F. Low, R. Meier, M. Rieke, B. A. Smith, R. Terrile, R. Thompson) ApJ Letters 512 L69 ,1999
1999 Planets Around Sun-Like Stars (with Marcy, Geoff; Butler, R. Paul; Vogt, Steve; Fischer, Debra; Shirts, Phil; Apps, Kevin; Hauser, Heather; Eiklenborg, Mike) Bioastronomy 99: A New Era in Bioastronomy. 6th Bioastronomy Meeting - Kohala Coast Hawaii - August 2-6, 1999
1997 I.A.U. Circular #6666. GRB 970508 (with Morris, M.; Mastrodemos, N; Zuckerman, B.; Becklin, E.; Lowrance, P.; Chary, R.; Barnbaum, C.; Donahue, M.; Sahu, K. ; Livio, M.; Petro, L.; Stocke, J.; Groot, P.; van Paradijs, J.)...just a gamma-ray burst.
1998 ``Submillimetre images of dusty debris around nearby stars'' (with W. Holland, J. Greaves, B. Zuckerman, R. Webb, I. Coulson, D. Walther, W. Dent, W. Gear, I. Robson) Nature. April 23, 1998 (Press Release)
1998 A Dust Ring around Epsilon Eridani: Analog to the Young Solar System (with Greaves, J.; Wolland, W. ; Moriarty-Schieven, G.; Jenness, T.; Dent, W. ; Zuckerman, B.; Webb, R. ; Butner, H. ; Gear, W. ; Walker, H) 1998, ApJ Letters,506L, 133.
1996 ``Attaining Doppler Precision of 3 m/s'', (with G. Marcy, R.P. Butler, E. Williams, S. Vogt & P. Dosanjh), PASP, 1996, 108, 500.