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CHEW Professor Rebekah Dawson honored with the 2017 Annie Jump Cannon Award

CHEW Professor Rebekah Dawson honored with the 2017 Annie Jump Cannon Award

“The 2017 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research and promise for future research is awarded to Dr. Rebekah Dawson for her work on extrasolar planet dynamical modeling. Dr. Dawson’s impact on the field of extrasolar planets has been significant. She has contributed to our interpretation of the properties of newly discovered planetary systems with complex modeling of their dynamical interactions which impact the mutual inclinations and eccentricities of the planets and the efficiency in which they migrate toward and away from each other and the host star. She is considered the “go to” theorist for modeling multi-planetary systems having created informative models of the KOI 1474, Beta Pic and Kepler 63 systems, to name a few. She has also written influential papers on the global properties of exoplanet systems, which have informed us about their formation histories. This includes the discovery that warm Jupiter planets in multiple systems are more likely to have mutual inclinations than similar hot Jupiter systems. Dr. Dawson will clearly continue to make substantial contributions to the field as we discover new planetary systems and she expands her studies to cover a larger sample with more complete datasets.”

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