Harvard University, California Institute of Technology
Known for
Detection of exoplanetary systems, Theory of formation of circumstellar disks and planets, citizen science and science communication.
Scientific career
Fields
Planetary astronomy
Website
eud.gsfc.nasa.gov/Marc.Kuchner/home.html
Marc Kuchner (born August 7, 1972) is an American astrophysicist, a staff member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) known for work on images and imaging of disks and exoplanets. Together with Wesley Traub, he invented the band-limited coronagraph,[1] a design for the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) telescope, also to be used on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). He is also known for his novel supercomputer models of planet-disk interactions[2] and for developing the ideas of ocean planets,[3] carbon planets, and helium planets.[4] Kuchner appears as an expert commentator in the National Geographic television show "Alien Earths" and frequently answers the "Ask Astro" questions in Astronomy Magazine. He currently serves as the principal investigator of the citizen science websites Disk Detective and Backyard Worlds.
^Kuchner, M. & Traub, W.A. (2002). "A Coronagraph with a Band-limited Mask for Finding Terrestrial Planets". "The Astrophysical Journal" 570, 900-908. (Abstract)
^Smith, Catharine (28 September 2010). "NASA Dust Model Presents Alien's View Of Our Solar System". Huffington Post.
^Kuchner, M. (2003). "Volatile-rich Earth-Mass Planets in the Habitable Zone". "The Astrophysical Journal" 596, L105-L108. (Abstract)
^Seager, S.; M. Kuchner, C. Hier-Majumder, B. Militzer (2007). "Mass-Radius Relationships for Solid Exoplanets". ApJ 669: 1279
MarcKuchner (born August 7, 1972) is an American astrophysicist, a staff member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) known for work on images...
element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. MarcKuchner and Sara Seager coined the term "carbon planet" in 2005 and investigated...
the hypothesized Planet Nine. The project's principal investigator is MarcKuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Backyard Worlds...
eurekalert.org. EurekAlert!. Retrieved 12 March 2019. Petr Pokorný; MarcKuchner (Mar 12, 2019). "Co-orbital Asteroids as the Source of Venus's Zodiacal...
This possibility was first discussed in the astronomical literature by MarcKuchner and Alain Léger in 2004. The internal structure of an icy astronomical...
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grow. A list of the top five citizen science communities compiled by MarcKuchner and Kristen Erickson in July 2018 shows a total of 3.75 million participants...
also has a train station with access to the Washington Metro system and the MARC commuter train's Camden line. The High Bay Cleanroom located in building...
from the original (PDF) on December 18, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2009. Marc Kaufman (August 15, 2007). "NASA Revisions Create a Stir in The Blogosphere"...
gas giants, with thick hydrogen and helium atmospheres. Together with MarcKuchner, Seager had predicted the existence of carbon planets. Seager has been...
and are formed. Initially launched by NASA Citizen Science Officer, MarcKuchner, the principal investigation of the project was turned over to Steven...
and his advocacy of action to limit the impacts of climate change. MarcKuchner Adena Williams Loston - formerly, Chief Education Officer at NASA Headquarters...
(BS) Harvard University (MS) Johns Hopkins University (DrPH) Spouse MarcKuchner Scientific career Fields Global health, Epidemiology, Outbreak Response...
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Casewell, Sarah L.; Hsu, Chih-Chun; Kiman, Rocio; Eisenhardt, Peter R. M.; Kuchner, Marc J.; Stern, Daniel; Gramaize, Léopold; Sainio, Arttu; Bickle, Thomas...
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under Dr MarcKuchner. Jalowiczor has been active in this area discovering 25 brown dwarfs. These are also generally mentioned in Marc's Blog post and...
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