Beth Biller
Professor A Biller
- Position
- Professor
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room R4
- Email: bbiller [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8349
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Beth is a member of the following School research institute:
Research interests
I am a Chancellor's Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, part of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
My research interests center around direct imaging detection and characterization of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. I am particularly interested in statistical analysis of large-scale planet surveys and developing techniques to monitor cloud patterns on brown dwarfs and exoplanets through photometric variability I am also active both in current observational efforts and development of future instruments, including the SPHERE planet-finder at the VLT, the Near-IR Coronagraphic Imager (NICI) at Gemini-South, and the LEECH survey using LMIRCam at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT).
Beth currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
Beth has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Recent publications
- , Astrophysics and Space Science, 370, 3, p. 1-18
- The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms DOI, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 981, 2, p. 1-10
- , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 3, p. 3114-3143
- The JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs I: multi-period JWST NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 2, p. 2207-2233
- Exploring the directly imaged HD 1160 system through spectroscopic characterization and high-cadence variability monitoring DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 1, p. 2168-2189