About Me
Welcome! I am a first year Graduate Student at the Lunar and Planetary Labratory at the University of Arizona. I will be working on improving simualtions of hot gaseous exoplanets so we can better understand observations from Hubble and JWST. In the past I have done research under Dr. John Blondin at NCSU using the VH-1 Hydrocode to simulate astrophysical flows, and for the Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics Lab at NASA Goddard in which I used PHOENIX atmopsheric code to compute sythetic star spectra in an effort to find correlations between stellar parameters and chromospheric emission lines. Read more about these projects by clicking Menu!
Contact Me: annartaylor@arizona.edu, ataylo24@alumni.ncsu.edu
Research at LPL
My research at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Labratory under Dr. Tommi Koskinen will be focused on improving and expandingsimualtions of hot gaseous exoplanet atomospheres in an effort to better understand the large influx of exoplanet observations we have recieved from space missions such as Hubble, JWST, and TESS.
Research with NASA Goddard's Exoplanet and Astrophysics Lab
My research at NASA Goddard under Dr. Sarah Peacock and Dr. Allison Youngblood has been focused on a search for correlations between photospheric parameters of main sequence stars and the Mg II k self-reversal depth. Published literature values for the intrinsic stellar parameters vary widely for our sample of 142 FGKM stars, so I used the PHOENIX atmosphere code to compute models for each target and consistently determine these parameters using archival photometry as empirical guidance.
Research with Blondin Group
Our group specializes in the use of computational hydrodynamics to study shocks and gas flow in astrophysical objects on the stellar scale. This research ranges from idealized problems such as Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion and the spherical accretion shock instability to detailed studies of specific astronomical objects. I am currently working on the astrophysical flow of Vela X-1, an eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) system. I am working on analyzing the effects of differing wind speed and Roche Lobe geometries have on the formation of wind accretion disks in this particular binary.
