Brianna Lacy
51 Pegasi B Fellow at UC Santa Cruz, and BAERI contractor at NASA Ames.
My research aims to understand the atmospheres of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs through theoretical modeling and comparison to observations. Check out my work on ADS, github, or the projects tab to learn more. You can contact me at blacy@ucsc.edu.
news
| May 20, 2024 | UC Santa Cruz graduate students, postdocs, and research staff are on strike. |
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| Apr 14, 2024 | JWST program GO-2124 finds methane emission in a cold brown dwarf, indicative of a surpisingly large temperature inversion in this isolated object |
| Sep 1, 2023 | First official day of work as a UC Santa Cruz post-doctoral fellow and BAERI contractor at NASA Ames! |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Collaborators discover first directly-imaged companion targetted because of its GAIA-Hipparcos astrometric signal. |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Just published a new grid of models for cold (250 - 500 K) substellar atmospheres with nonequilibrium chemistry and water clouds. |