Emily Sandford

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

What can we learn about the dynamics of a star from a 1D light curve?

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Planetary Linguistics

What can natural language processing teach us about planetary systems?

• What indeed?

Kepler Multiplicities

How can we explain the multiplicities of Kepler systems most simply?

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Shadow Imaging

Can we infer the shape of an object from its transit light curve alone?

• Sort of

Single Transits

How can we constrain the period of a planet if we only see it transit once?

• With independent stellar density priors

Stellar Densities

How precisely can we measure the density of a star from the light curves of its transiting planets?

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Kepler Atlas

In 2017, I mentored a team of four high school students through the American Museum of Natural History's Science Research Mentoring Program. Over the course of the school year, we built a 3D interactive atlas of all the Kepler exoplanet discoveries.

• Explore the atlas

Science Writing

I was a staff writer at Astrobites from 2016-2018. Since then, I've written a bit for Sky & Telescope magazine.

• Astrobites

• Sky & Telescope

Cool Worlds

I'm a regular contributor to the Cool Worlds YouTube channel.

• Now That's A Cool World