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I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Astronomy Department at Harvard University. My research interests include exoplanets, habitability, and astrobiology. I received a master’s degree in astronomy and astrophysics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. At Princeton, I worked with Jill Knapp to study the magnetic activity of M dwarfs with white dwarf companions and with Dave Spiegel to model the habitability of terrestrial exoplanets. For my senior thesis, I worked with Ed Turner, Michael McElwain, and the SEEDS (Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru) collaboration to directly image young Jovian exoplanets using the Subaru telescope. At Harvard, I am working with Dave Charbonneau to study the properties, frequency, and detectability of small planets orbiting small stars.
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Possible clarification? If a 2 M_o star has a M/L ~ 0.16 and a 0.5 M_o has a M/L ~ 6.5, then a galaxy containing many more low mass stars (ie 0.5M_o stars) would have a HIGHER M/L than a galaxy with more high mass stars. The last sentence in the first paragraph of methods suggests otherwise.
That’s absolutely correct. Thank you very much for catching that typo!
How are you?
which is model useing to find M/L?