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Lisseth Gavilan

Affiliation: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP USRA)

Email:  lisseth.gavilanmarin@nasa.gov

Title: NASA postdoctoral fellow

Professional Biography:

Lisseth Gavilan is currently a NASA post-doctoral fellow (NPP USRA) at the Space Science & Astrobiology division of the Ames Research Center. Lisseth grew up in Peru and moved to the US to attend Carleton College (MN), where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics, and then to SUNY Stony Brook (NY), where she obtained a master’s degree in physics. She then moved to France, where she worked on laboratory astrophysics to understand the formation of molecular hydrogen in the interstellar medium and obtained a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Paris Observatory. Lisseth is currently working at the Ames Astrochemistry laboratory with Dr. Farid Salama, using the COSmIC chamber to study the evolution of carbon in the interstellar medium. Using a pulsed discharge nozzle she investigates the condensation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) into carbonaceous dust, laboratory analogs to interstellar dust grains.

Education:

B.A. Physics, Carleton College, Minnesota USA

M.A. Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook USA

Ph.D. Astrophysics, Observatoire de Paris ED 127, France

Research Interests:

Laboratory Astrophysics

Astrochemistry

Interstellar Dust

Planet formation

Select Publications:

  • L. Gavilan, N. Carrasco, S. Hoffmann, N. Jones, and N. Mason “Organic Aerosols in Anoxic and Oxic Atmospheres of Earth-like Exoplanets: VUV-MIR Spectroscopy of CHON Tholins” The Astrophysical Journal, 861, 110 (8pp), 2018 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aac8df
  • L. Gavilan, K. C. Le, T. Pino, I. Alata, A. Giuliani, and E. Dartois​ “Polyaromatic disordered carbon grains as carriers of the UV bump: Far-UV to mid-IR spectroscopy of laboratory analogs” Astronomy & Astrophysics, 607, A73 (19pp), 2017 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017A%26A…607A..73G
  • L. Gavilan, L. Remusat, M. Roskosz, H. Popescu, N. Jaouen, C. Sandt, C. Jäger, T. Henning, A. Simionovici,  J. L. Lemaire, D. Mangin, and N. Carrasco “X-Ray Induced Deuterium Enrichment Of N-Rich Organics In Protoplanetary Disks: An Experimental Investigation Using Synchrotron Light” The Astrophysical Journal, 840, 35 (11pp), 2017 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6bfc/meta
  • L. Gavilan, I. Alata, K. C. Le, T. Pino, A. Giuliani, and E. Dartois​ “VUV spectroscopy of carbon dust analogs: contribution to interstellar extinction” Astronomy & Astrophysics, 586, A110 (10pp), 2016 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016A%26A…586A.106G
  • L. Gavilan, C. Jäger, A. Simionovici, J. L. Lemaire, T. Sabri, E. Foy, S. Yagoubi, T. Henning, D. Salomon, and  G. Martinez-Criado “Hard X-ray irradiation of cosmic silicate analogs: structural evolution and astrophysical implications” Astronomy & Astrophysics, 587, A144 (8pp), 2016 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2016/03/aa27708-15/aa27708-15.html
  • L. Gavilan, J. L. Lemaire, G. Vidali, T. Sabri, and C. Jäger “The Formation of Molecular Hydrogen on Silicate Dust Analogs: The Rotational Distribution” The Astrophysical Journal, 781, 79 (13pp), 2014http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ…781…79G
  • L. Gavilan, J. L. Lemaire, M. Eidelsberg, S. R. Federman, G. Stark, A. N. Heays, J.-H. Fillion, J. R. Lyons, N. de Oliveira “High-Resolution study of 13C16O A-X (v’ = 0-9) bands using the VUV-FTS at SOLEIL: Revised term values” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117, 9644 (8pp), 2013 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp312338z
  • L. Gavilan, G. Vidali, J.L. Lemaire, M. Chehrouri, F. Dulieu, J.-H. Fillion, E. Congiu, H. Chaabouni “Experimental Investigation of the Ortho/Para Ratio of Newly Formed Molecular Hydrogen on Amorphous Solid Water” The Astrophysical Journal, 760, 35 (8pp), 2012 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/35
  • L. Gavilan, J.L. Lemaire, and G. Vidali “Are molecule-covered dust grains efficient catalysts of H2 formation?” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, 2961 (9pp), 2012 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/424/4/2961/1059729