Draft:Marta L. Bryan

Overview

• Comment: Her Google Scholar citation counts may be enough for a borderline pass of WP:PROF#C1, and some of the awards may be significant. But the puffed-up WP:PEACOCK intro paragraph, the indiscriminate list of all publications, the many minor "awards" that are not actually honors but merely funding as a researcher, and the many footnotes that are not actually references about Bryan, but instead just the same indiscriminate list of her own publications repeated again, all need to go. This cannot be evaluated for becoming an article until it has a *small* number of references, written and published by people independent of Bryan and her employers, with all article content supported by a and verifiable to those references. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:29, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Marta L. Bryan (born July 17, 1978) is an observational astronomer based in Toronto, Canada with her doctorate in Astrophysics. She is best known for her research on the origins of gas giant planets orbiting extremely far from their host stars. She is most notable for her many citations and publications on her research on the cosmos.[1] She specializes in exploring the formation, evolution, and structure of planetary systems. She is also recognized for her Annie Jump Cannon Award in 2023.[2]

Education

Bryan has achieved multiple degrees in Astrophysics. In June 2012, she graduated cum laude with high honors with her Bachelor's in Astrophysics from Harvard University. Her Bachelor's thesis was on Characterizing Qatar-2b: A Hot Jupiter Orbiting a K Dwarf. After that, Bryan continued on to get her Master's. She received her Master's degree in Astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in June of 2014. Years later, in May 2018, she graduated from the California Institute of Technology with her PhD in Astrophysics. Her PhD thesis was titled Lurking in the Shadows: Wide-Separation Gas Giants as Tracers of Planet Formation. [3]

Career and Research

After accomplishing three degrees in Astrophysics, Bryan proceeded to delve into research fellowships related to Astrophysics. In 2018, she started at UC Berkeley as a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow. Later, in 2021, she started a new fellowship with the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department working on the NASA Hubble Program. Today, Bryan works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. Bryan's work includes studies about many aspects of the universe, but she mostly focuses on gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn. Some topics she researches are the origins of gas giant planets orbiting far from their host stars, how long-period gas giants can influence other gas giant formation, and explores the habitability of these gas giants.[4]

Awards and Honors

Throughout her career, Bryan has been awarded and recognized for her work.

Bryan won the Leo Goldberg Prize for outstanding undergraduate thesis work, Harvard University in 2011.

In 2013, she was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

In 2014, Bryan then won the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award Honorable Mention, AAS

In 2023, she received the Connaught New Researcher Award.

Also in 2023, Bryan was awarded the AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award.

Publications

Bryan has written and published works on her research.

(** denotes student papers supervised by M.L.B.)

Bryan, M. L., Chiang, E., Morley, C. V. et al 2021, Obliquity Constraints on the Planetary-Mass Companion HD 106906 b, AJ, 162, 217.

Bryan, M. L., Ginzburg, S., Chiang, E. et al 2020b, As the Worlds Turn: Constraining Spin Evolution in the Planetary-Mass Regime, ApJ, 905, 37.

Bryan, M. L., Chiang, E., Bowler, B. P. et al 2020a, Obliquity Constraints on an Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Companion, AJ, 159, id. 181.

Bryan, M. L., Knutson, H. A., Lee, E. et al 2019, An Excess of Jupiter Analogs in Super-Earth Systems, AJ, 157, 2.

Bryan, M. L., Benneke, B., Knutson, H. A. et al 2018, Constraints on the Spin Evolution of Young Planetary Mass Companions, Nature Astronomy, 2, 138-144.

Bryan, M. L., Bowler, B. P., Knutson, H. A. et al. 2016, Searching for Scatterers: High-Contrast Imaging of Young Stars Hosting Wide-Separation Planetary-Mass Companions, ApJ, 827, 100.

Bryan, M. L., Knutson, H. A., Howard, A. W. et al. 2016, Statistics of Long Period Gas Giant Planets in Known Planetary Systems, ApJ, 821, 89.

Bryan, M. L., Alsubai, K. A., Latham, D. W. et al. 2012, Qatar-2: A K Dwarf Orbited by a Transiting Hot Jupiter and a More Massive Companion in an Outer Orbit, ApJ, 750, 84.

Bryan, M. L., Chapman, G., Hall, D. N. B. et al., 2012, Investigation of linear-mode photon-counting HgCdTe APDs for astronomical observations, SPIE Proceedings, 8453, 84532F.

**Xuan, J., Bryan, M. L., Knutson, H. A. et al 2020, A Rotation Rate for the Planetary−Mass Companion DH Tau b, AJ, 159, 97.

Meshkat, T., Mawet, D., Bryan, M. L. et al 2017, A Direct Imaging Survey of Spitzer Detected Debris Disks: Occurrence of Giant Planets in Dusty Systems, ApJ, 154, 245.

Bowler, B., Kraus, A., Bryan, M. L. et al 2017, The Young Substellar Companion ROXs 12 B: NearInfrared Spectrum, System Architecture, and Spin-Orbit Misalignment, AJ, 154, 165.

Ngo, H., Knutson, H. A., Bryan, M. L. et al 2017, No Difference in Orbital Parameters of RV-detected Giant Planets between 0.1 and 5 au in Single versus Multi-stellar Systems, AJ, 153, 242.

Carter, A. L., Hinkley, S., Jammerer, J. & 107 coauthors including Bryan, M. L 2023, The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16um, ApJL, 951, L20.

Bowler, B. P., Tran, Q. H., Zhang, Z. & 10 coauthors including Bryan, M. L 2023, Rotation Periods, Inclinations, and Obliquities of Cool Stars Hosting Directly Imaged Substellar Companions: Spin-Orbit Misalignments Are Common, AJ, 165, 164.

Miles, B. E., Biller, B. A., Patapis, P. & 99 coauthors including Bryan, M. L 2022, The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b, ApJL, 946, L6.

Echeverri, D, Jovanovic, N. Delorme, J.-R. & 35 coauthors including Bryan, M. L 2022, Phase II of the Keck Planet Imager and characterizer:system-level laboratory characterization and preliminary on-sky commissioning., Proceedings of the SPIE, 12184.

Finnerty, K., Schofield, T., Delorme, J.-R. & 26 coauthors including Bryan, M. L 2022, On-sky performance and lessons learned from the phase I KPIC fiber injection unit, Proceedings of the SPIE, 12184.

Hinkley, S., Carter, A. L., Ray, S. & 86 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2022, The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging & Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems, PASP, 134, 1039.

Zhou, Y., Bowler, B. P., Apai, D. & 5 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2022, Roaring Storms in the Planetary-Mass COmpanion VHS 1256-1257 b: Hubble Space Telescope Multi-epoch Monitoring Reveals Vigorous Evolution in an Ultra-cool Atmosphere, AJ, 164, 239.

Wang, J., Wang, J. J., Ruffio, J.-B. & 29 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2022, Retrieving C and O Abundance of HR 8799 c by Combining High- and Low-Resolution Data, AJ, 165, 1.

Xuan, J. W., Wang, J., Ruffio, J.-B. & 37 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2022, A Clear View of a Cloudy Brown Dwarf Companion from High Spectral Resolution, ApJ, 937, 2.

Wang, J. J., Ruffio, J.-B., Morris, E. & 49 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2021, Detection and Bulk Properties of the HR 8799 Planets with High Resolution Spectroscopy, AJ, 162, 148.

Zhou, Y., Bowler, B. P., Morley, C. V. & 4 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2020, Spectral Variability of VHS J1256-1257 b from 1 to 5 um, AJ, 160, id. 77.

Bowler, B. P., Zhou, Y., Morley, C. V. & 4 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2020, Strong Nearinfrared Spectral Variability of the Young Cloudy L Dwarf Companion VHS J1256-1257 b, ApJL, 893, id. L30.

Becker, J. C., Vanderburg, A., Adams, F. C. & 2 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2017, Exterior Companions to Hot Jupiters Oribiting Cool Stars Are Coplanar, AJ, 154, 230.

Mawet, D., Hirsch, L., Lee, E. J. & 27 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2019, Deep Exploration of epsilon Eridani with Keck Ms-band vortex coronagraphy and radial velocities: mass and orbital parameters of the giant exoplanet, AJ, 157, 33.

Xuan, W. J., Mawet, D., Ngo, H. & 15 coauthors including Bryan, M. L. 2018, Characterizing the Performance of the NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph at W. M. Keck Observatory, AJ, 156, 4.

Piskorz, D., Benneke, B., Crockett, N.R., & 10 coauthors including Bryan, M. L., 2016, Evidence for the Direct Detection of the Thermal Spectrum of the Non-Transiting Hot Gas Giant HD 88133 b, ApJ, 832, 131.

Ngo, H., Knutson, H. A., Hinkley, S., & 11 coauthors including Bryan, M. L., 2016, Friends of Hot Jupiters IV Stellar Companions Beyond 50 AU Might Facilitate Giant Planet Formation, but Most are Unlikely to Cause Kozai-Lidov Migration, ApJ, 827, 8.