Allyson Bieryla

Allyson Bieryla

Astronomer
Manager of the Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope
Allyson headshot

My research interests are primarily in observational astronomy. I work mostly on detection and characterization of exoplanets. I've worked on ground-based transit surveys such as the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT), the Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (HATNet), and the Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES). I have also been involved in space-based follow-up work, including Kepler, K2 and TESS.

I am interested in both photometry and spectroscopy. Most of my follow-up work uses the TRES spectrograph on the 1.5m Tillinghast Reflector Telescope and KeplerCam on the 1.2m telescope both located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) on Mt. Hopkins, AZ.

Contact Information

Office: Science Ctr B-10A
p: 617-384-8419

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