Gaitee's Homepage
Hi and welcome to my old homepage !
I have moved to the University of St Andrews and now have an
updated webpage here .
I was a research fellow at the CFA and then worked in the
Research and Scientific Support Department of the European Space Agency.
I am mainly interested in magnetic activity on rapidly rotating
solar-type stars that are precursors of our own Sun.
I produce magnetic field maps of the
the surfaces of cool stars by applying Doppler imaging techniques
to circularly polarised spectra.
Currently, I am attempting to use these magnetic field maps in order to model
X-ray emission from young cool stars.
Solar physicists have been extrapolating solar surface magnetograms to
model coronal properties of the Sun as observed in mission such as TRACE.
Our work exploits these complicated modeling in the hopes
of learning how the hotter coronae of rapidly rotating cool stars
are affected by strong surface magnetic fields.
You can find out more about the work I have done by reading my curriculum vitae.
I did my PhD in the
cool star group at the
University of St Andrews
under the direction of
Andrew Cameron.
This work involved the use of high resolution mapping techniques to image
the surfaces of the active K0 dwarf, AB Doradus.
My thesis abstract can found here
and you can find reconstructions and movies of this star on
Andrew Cameron's AB Dor page.
This page is under construction and I shall include more detail on
my research in the near future.
In the meantime here are some astronomy-related links:
