John Gizis

John Gizis

Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Astronomy
 

204 Sharp Lab

Biography

B.S. Astronomy and Physics from Yale University; Ph.D. Astrono​my from California Institute of Technology; UD Faculty since 2001​

 

Research

Observational Astronomy; Brown Dwarfs and Very-Low-Mass Stars; M, L, T, Y Dwarfs and Subdwarfs; Spectral Classification; Solar Neighborhood; Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST); JWST and​ Space Telescopes

 

Publications

J. E. Gizis, et al. "WISEP J004701.06+680352.1: An Intermediate Surface Gravity, Dusty Brown Dwarf in the AB Dor Moving Group." Astrophys. J. 799, 223, (2015).|J. E. Gizis, et al. "Kepler Monitoring of an L Dwarf I. The Photometric Period and White Light Flares." Astrophys. J. 779, 172 (2013).|B. Riaz and J. E. Gizis, "New brown dwarf disks in the TW Hydrae association", Astrophys. J. 681, 1584 (2008).|J. E. Gizis, H. L. Shipman, and J. A. Harvin, "First ultraviolet spectrum of a brown dwarf: Evidence for H_2 Fluorescence and Accretion", Astrophys. J. 630, L89 (2005).|J. E. Gizis, "Brown dwarfs and the TW Hydrae association", Astrophys. J. 575, 484 (2002).|J. E. Gizis, D.G. Monet, I.N. Reid, J. D. Kirkpatrick, J. Liebert, and R. J. Williams, "New neighbors from 2MASS: Activity and kinematics at the bottom of the main sequence", Astrophys. J. 120, 1085 (2000).|J. E. Gizis, "M-Subdwarfs: Spectroscopic classification and the metallicity scale", Astrophys. J. 113, 806 (1997).