I am passionate about spectroscopy, especially UV spectroscopy, and advocating for the future of UV astronomy.
HST's Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards
(ULLYSES)
is a Director's Discretionary program of approximately 1,000
orbits that produced an ultraviolet spectroscopic library of young
high- and low-mass stars in the local universe.
Since August 2020, I have been leading the ULLYSES Data Products (DP)
team which is responsible for all technical aspects of the production,
dissemination, and management of ULLYSES data. This includes
creating high-level science products,
maintaining the
ULLYSES website,
producing
visualization and analysis software, and ensuring intuitive
data access
for the scientific community.
I joined the
NIRISS
team in 2018 and primarily work on the
WFSS
(Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy)
team, the imaging team, and the JWST
calibration pipeline. I am currently working on updating the WFSS trace
calibration.
During JWST commissioning, I was involved in the
creation of detector flats,
WFSS wavelength calibration,
characterization and analysis of detector features
(stray light, ghosts, anomalous diffraction spikes),
and general data inspection and verification.
I am also passionate about creating fully functional,
well-written, standardized code using modern tools. Through my leadership,
the NIRISS team has begun utilizing the full capability of git version
control systems to maintain commissioning, pipeline, and calibration software.
As a member of the COS team for 6 years, I have extensive experience with
XDL and MAMA detectors. Many of my projects have required detailed treatment
of calibration to produce high quality scientific products. I have contributed
to and tested the COS calibration software pipeline.
Some notable COS projects I have contributed to:
Prior to the COS+STIS combined team split, I was a member of the STIS team for 4 years. During that period, I was the PI of several calibration programs and contributed to STIS calibration pipeline testing. I have also been involved in multiple research projects that required detailed treatment of STIS long-slit spectra. In particular, I have developed custom calibration pipelines to address the following issues: custom DQ and hot pixel flagging, iterative fringe correction in NIR spectra, spectral extraction in crowded fields, and herringbone pattern correction.