#  Allyson Bieryla 

Astronomer

Manager of the Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Science Ctr B-10A 

 smartphone [617-384-8419](tel:617-384-8419) 

 email <abieryla@cfa.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows <https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~abieryla/> 

 laptop\_windows [Astronomy lab and telescope website](https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~astrolab/) 

 

 



 

 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)](http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/keltnorth/Home.html), the Hungarian Automated Telescope Network [(HATNet)](https://hatnet.org/), and the Qatar Exoplanet Survey [(QES)](http://www.qatarexoplanet.org/). I have also been involved in space-based follow-up work, including [Kepler, K2](https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/) and [TESS](https://tess.mit.edu/).

 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)](http://www.sao.arizona.edu/FLWO/whipple.html) on Mt. Hopkins, AZ.



 

 

 





 

 

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