Beth Biller

Professor A Biller

Position: Professor
Category: Academic staff
Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room R4

School research affiliations

Beth is a member of the following School research institute:

Institute for Astronomy

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).

Recent news

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Publications

Recent publications

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b DOI
JWST Early Release Science program 1386 collaboration, Brittany E. Miles, Beth A. Biller, Polychronis Patapis, Kadin Worthen, Emily Rickman, Kielan K. W. Hoch, Andrew Skemer, Marshall D. Perrin, Niall Whiteford, Trent J. Dupuy et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 946, 1, p. 1-19 (2023)
Dynamical masses for two M1 + mid-M dwarf binaries monitored during the SPHERE-SHINE survey DOI
Beth A. Biller, Antoine Grandjean, Sergio Messina, Silvano Desidera, Philippe Delorme, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Dino Mesa, Markus Janson, Raffaele Gratton et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 658, p. 1-23 (2022)
A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system DOI
Markus Janson, Raffaele Gratton, Laetitia Rodet, Arthur Vigan, Mickael Bonnefoy, Philippe Delorme, Eric E. Mamajek, Sabine Reffert, Lukas Stock, Beth Biller et al., Nature, 600, 7888, p. 231-234 (2021)
The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE DOI
A. Vigan, C. Fontanive, M. Meyer, B. Biller, M. Bonavita, M. Feldt, S. Desidera, G. -D. Marleau, A. Emsenhuber, R. Galicher, K. Rice et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 651, p. 1-22 (2021)
A High-Contrast Search for Variability in HR 8799bc with VLT-SPHERE DOI
B. A. Biller, D. Apai, M. Bonnefoy, S. Desidera, R. Gratton, M. Kasper, M. Kenworthy, A. M. Lagrange, C. Lazzoni, D. Mesa et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503, 1, p. 743-767 (2021)

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