RECONS Senior Personnel

TODD J. HENRY   RECONS Director
census, companion searches, exoplanets, masses, ground and space astrometry

G. FRITZ BENEDICT   University of Texas, Austin, TX
low mass stars, exoplanets, space astrometry, radial velocities

CHARLIE T. FINCH   United States Naval Observatory, Washington, DC
proper motion systems, astrometry

DAVID A. GOLIMOWSKI   Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
companion searches, brown dwarfs, spectroscopy

NIGEL HAMBLY   University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
proper motion stars, astrometry, plate photometry

ELLOTT P. HORCH   Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
high-resolution imaging, instrumentation, fundamental stellar properties

PHILIP A. IANNA   RECONS Institute, Chambersburg, PA
low mass stars, astrometry, optical photometry

WEI-CHUN JAO   Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
subdwarfs, high proper motion stars, astrometry, optical photometry

DAVID W. KOERNER   Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
circumstellar disks, infrared techniques

DONALD W. MCCARTHY, Jr.   University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
infrared techniques, astronomy education

ADRIC RIEDEL   Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
young stars, low proper motion stars, stellar spectroscopy, large databases

JOHN SUBASAVAGE   United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ
white dwarfs, proper motion searches, astrometry, optical photometry/spectroscopy

 

RECONS Affiliates

ANDREW CLARKE   (2015-present)   Atlanta, GA
RECONS 25 Parsec Database construction

KEN SLATTEN   (2010-present)   Duluth, MN
RECONS 25 Parsec Database construction

 

RECONS-Affiliated Postdocs

SERGE DIETERICH   (2002-present)   Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
red/brown dwarf characteristics, high-resolution imaging, optical photometry, astrometry

MICHELE SILVERSTEIN   (2013-present)   Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
stellar radii and environments

JENNIFER WINTERS   (2003-present)   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
nearby star searches, red dwarf companion surveys, optical photometry

 

RECONS Graduate Students

ANDREW COUPERUS   (2019-present)   Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
M dwarf variability

HODARI-SADIKI JAMES   (2017-present)   Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
K dwarf characterization, exoplanets in the solar neighborhood

AMAN KAR   (2020-present)   Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
M dwarf variability, exoplanets

D. XAVIER LESLEY   (2021-present)   Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
spectroscopic techniques, stellar space motions and multiplicity

LEONARDO PAREDES   (2015-present)   Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
K dwarf multiplicity, radial velocity surveys, exoplanets

ELIOT HALLEY VRIJMOET   (2017-present)   Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
stellar masses, astrometric techniques