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University of Chicago: Chicago, US

2024 to present | NASA Sagan Fellow (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
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Lily Ling Zhao

Flatiron Institute: New York, NY, US

2021 to 2024 | Flatiron Research Fellow (Center for Computational Astrophysics)
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Lily Ling Zhao

Education and qualifications (2)

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2016 to 2021 | PhD (Astronomy Department)
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Lily Ling Zhao

University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, US

2012 to 2016 | B.A. Biology, B.A. Physics, B.S. Mathematics (The College)
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Lily Ling Zhao

Works (19)

Four Sub-Earth Planets Orbiting Barnard’s Star from MAROON-X and ESPRESSO

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2025-03-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adb8d5
Contributors: Ritvik Basant; Rafael Luque; Jacob L. Bean; Andreas Seifahrt; Madison Brady; Lily L. Zhao; Nina Brown; Tanya Das; Julian Stürmer; David Kasper et al.
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Peering into the Black Box: Forward Modeling of the Uncertainty Budget of High-resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres

The Astronomical Journal
2025-03-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ada27e
Contributors: Arjun B. Savel; Megan Bedell; Eliza M.-R. Kempton; Peter C. B. Smith; Jacob L. Bean; Lily L. Zhao; Kaze W. K. Wong; Jorge A. Sanchez; Michael R. Line
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The Influence of Chromospheric Activity on Line Formation

The Astrophysical Journal
2025-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adb0c6
Contributors: Mariela C. Vieytes; Lily L. Zhao; Megan Bedell
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A Compact, Coherent Representation of Stellar Surface Variation in the Spectral Domain

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad90ad
Contributors: Lily L. Zhao; Megan Bedell; David W. Hogg; Rodrigo Luger
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Gaspery: Optimized Scheduling of Radial Velocity Follow-up Observations for Active Host Stars

The Astronomical Journal
2024-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad739b
Contributors: Christopher Lam; Megan Bedell; Lily L. Zhao; Arvind F. Gupta; Sarah A. Ballard
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Quiet Please: Detrending Radial Velocity Variations from Stellar Activity with a Physically Motivated Spot Model

The Astronomical Journal
2024-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad6768
Contributors: Jared C. Siegel; Samuel Halverson; Jacob K. Luhn; Lily L. Zhao; Khaled Al Moulla; Paul Robertson; Chad F. Bender; Ryan C. Terrien; Arpita Roy; Suvrath Mahadevan et al.
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The Extreme Stellar-signals Project. III. Combining Solar Data from HARPS, HARPS-N, EXPRES, and NEID

The Astronomical Journal
2023-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acf83e
Contributors: Lily L. Zhao; Xavier Dumusque; Eric B. Ford; Joe Llama; Annelies Mortier; Megan Bedell; Khaled Al Moulla; Chad F. Bender; Cullen H. Blake; John M. Brewer et al.
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EXPRES. IV. Two Additional Planets Orbiting ρ Coronae Borealis Reveal Uncommon System Architecture

The Astronomical Journal
2023-08-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acdd6f
Contributors: John M. Brewer; Lily L. Zhao; Debra A. Fischer; Rachael M. Roettenbacher; Gregory W. Henry; Joe Llama; Andrew E. Szymkowiak; Samuel H. C. Cabot; Sam A. Weiss; Chris McCarthy
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Author Correction: Measured spin–orbit alignment of ultra-short-period super-Earth 55 Cancri e

Nature Astronomy
2023-01-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-01886-1
Contributors: Lily L. Zhao; Vedad Kunovac; John M. Brewer; Joe Llama; Sarah C. Millholland; Christina Hedges; Andrew E. Szymkowiak; Rachael M. Roettenbacher; Samuel H. C. Cabot; Sam A. Weiss et al.
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Measured spin–orbit alignment of ultra-short-period super-Earth 55 Cancri e

Nature Astronomy
2022-12-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01837-2
Contributors: Lily L. Zhao; Vedad Kunovac; John M. Brewer; Joe Llama; Sarah C. Millholland; Christina Hedges; Andrew E. Szymkowiak; Rachael M. Roettenbacher; Samuel H. C. Cabot; Sam A. Weiss et al.
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Measured Spin-Orbit Alignment of Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth 55 Cancri e

2022-07-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1747082/v1
Contributors: Lily Zhao; Vedad Kunovac; John Brewer; Joe Llama; Sarah Millholland; Christina Hedges; Andrew Szymkowiak; Rachael Roettenbacher; Samuel Cabot; Sam Weiss et al.
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The EXPRES Stellar Signals Project II. State of the Field in Disentangling Photospheric Velocities

The Astronomical Journal
2022-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac5176
Contributors: Lily L. Zhao; Debra A. Fischer; Eric B. Ford; Alex Wise; Michaël Cretignier; Suzanne Aigrain; Oscar Barragan; Megan Bedell; Lars A. Buchhave; João D. Camacho et al.
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A Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet Surveys (SAFE)

The Astronomical Journal
2021-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abf5e0
Contributors: Parker H. Holzer; Jessi Cisewski-Kehe; Lily Zhao; Eric B. Ford; Christian Gilbertson; Debra A. Fischer
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Excalibur: A Nonparametric, Hierarchical Wavelength Calibration Method for a Precision Spectrograph

The Astronomical Journal
2021-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abd105
Contributors: Lily L. Zhao; David W. Hogg; Megan Bedell; Debra A. Fischer
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EXPRES. II. Searching for Planets around Active Stars: A Case Study of HD 101501

The Astronomical Journal
2021-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abc41e
Contributors: Samuel H. C. Cabot; Rachael M. Roettenbacher; Gregory W. Henry; Lily Zhao; Robert O. Harmon; Debra A. Fischer; John M. Brewer; Joe Llama; Ryan R. Petersburg; Andrew E. Szymkowiak
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The EXPRES Stellar-signals Project. I. Description of Data

Research Notes of the AAS
2020-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/abb8d0
Contributors: Lily Zhao; Debra A. Fischer; Eric B. Ford; Gregory W. Henry; Rachael M. Roettenbacher; John M. Brewer
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An Extreme-precision Radial-velocity Pipeline: First Radial Velocities from EXPRES

The Astronomical Journal
2020-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab7e31
Contributors: Ryan R. Petersburg; J. M. 冕 Joel Ong 王加; Lily L. Zhao; Ryan T. Blackman; John M. Brewer; Lars A. Buchhave; Samuel H. C. Cabot; Allen B. Davis; Colby A. Jurgenson; Christopher Leet et al.
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Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph

The Astronomical Journal
2020-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab811d
Contributors: Ryan T. Blackman; Debra A. Fischer; Colby A. Jurgenson; David Sawyer; Tyler M. McCracken; Andrew E. Szymkowiak; Ryan R. Petersburg; J. M. 加冕 Joel Ong 王; John M. Brewer; Lily L. Zhao et al.
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Planet Detectability in the Alpha Centauri System

The Astronomical Journal
2018-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa9bea
Contributors: Lily Zhao; Debra A. Fischer; John Brewer; Matt Giguere; Bárbara Rojas-Ayala
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