JACKIE FAHERTY

My research interests are primarily concerned with the study of brown dwarfs,
low mass objects that cannot sustain Hydrogen fusion. I am interested in the
science that emereges from astrometric measurements of these substellar mass
objects. Since brown dwarfs can have masses from a few tenths the Sun's mass
down to a few Jupiter masses, studying them has implications on the two most
populous astronomical bodies in our solar neighborhood. Below is a description
of the BDKP, a program which encompasses the majority of my thesis.

Advisors: Mike Shara, AMNH, Fred Walter, Stony Brook, Adam Burgasser, MIT