2013 - Present: NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Lab
2010 - 2013: Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
2006 - 2009: NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellow
Christopher C Stark
(Rsch AST, Stlr Galctic&Xtrgltc Astr)
| Email: | christopher.c.stark@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.8375 |
| Org Code: | 667 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 667 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Missions & Projects
Brief Bio
Research Interests
Debris Disks and Exoplanets
Astrophysics: Extrasolar planetsDetecting debris disks, constraining disk composition and structure to determine the nature of unseen planets and planetesimals, planning for future exoplanet imaging missions.
Current Projects
ALMA Cycle 2: "Confirming the Recent Collisional Destruction of an Extra-Solar Pluto"
PI: Christopher Stark
HST Cycle 22 GO: "Decoding Debris System Substructures: Imprints of Planets/Planetesimals and Signatures of Extrinsic Influences on Material in Ring-Like Disks"
PI: Glenn Schneider
Spitzer Cycle 10: "SpiKeS: Spitzer Kepler Survey"
PI: Michael Werner
HST Cycle 21 Theory: "SMACK: A New Tool for Modeling Debris Disks"
PI: Marc Kuchner
Spitzer Cycle 9: "Small SpiKeS: Small Spitzer Kepler Survey"
PI: Michael Werner
2011 NASA Explorer Program: "EXCEDE: EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer"
PI: Glenn Schneider
HST Cycle 19 GO: "Imaging Disk-Planet Interactions in the Beta Pictoris Disk"
PI: Daniel Apai
HST Cycle 18 GO: "Probing for Exoplanets Hiding in Dusty Debris Disks: Inner (<10 AU) Disk Imaging, Characterizing, and Exploration"
PI: Glenn Schneider
2010 Planetary Geology and Geophysics: "Dynamical Models of the Zodiacal Cloud with Grain-Grain Collisions"
PI: Marc Kuchner
Education
2010: Ph.D., Physics, University of Maryland
Thesis Title: "Decoding Images of Debris Disks"
Advisor: Marc Kuchner
2004: B.S., Physics, University of Northern Iowa
Thesis Title: "Decoding Images of Debris Disks"
Advisor: Marc Kuchner
2004: B.S., Physics, University of Northern Iowa
Awards
2013: NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship
2010: Carnegie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2009: NASA Astrophysics Science Division Peer Award
2009: AAS DPS Hartman Travel Grant
2006: NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship
2007: AAS DDA Student Stipend Award
2004 & 2006: U. of Northern Iowa Alumni Merchant Scholarship
2004: U. of Northern Iowa Purple & Old Gold Award for Meritorious Achievement in Physics
2003: U. of Nebraska Materials Research Science & Engineering Center Fellowship
2002: U. of Northern Iowa McKay Science, Math, and Technology Scholarship
2001: U. of Northern Iowa Science Symposium Physics Scholarship
1999: Eagle Scout Award
2010: Carnegie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2009: NASA Astrophysics Science Division Peer Award
2009: AAS DPS Hartman Travel Grant
2006: NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship
2007: AAS DDA Student Stipend Award
2004 & 2006: U. of Northern Iowa Alumni Merchant Scholarship
2004: U. of Northern Iowa Purple & Old Gold Award for Meritorious Achievement in Physics
2003: U. of Nebraska Materials Research Science & Engineering Center Fellowship
2002: U. of Northern Iowa McKay Science, Math, and Technology Scholarship
2001: U. of Northern Iowa Science Symposium Physics Scholarship
1999: Eagle Scout Award
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Invited
STScI Star & Planet Formation Seminar
September 2014
Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop Hands-On Session
August 2014
"On the Shoulders of Giants: Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler" AAS Meeting-in-a-Meeting
August 2014
JPL Astrophysics Colloquium
August 2014
AURA Beyond JWST Committee Meeting
February 2014
STScI Star & Planet Formation Seminar
December 2013
NASA GSFC ATLAST Team Meeting
December 2013
U. of Northern Iowa Physics Colloquium
May 2013
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group
July 2011
NASA GSFC Signposts of Planets Workshop
May 2011
NASA GSFC Computational Astrophysics Seminar
2010
Lorentz Center Advanced School and Workshop on Computational Gravitational Dynamics
June 2010
ISSI 2nd Exozodiacal Dust Disks and Darwin Meeting
May 2009
ISSI Exozodiacal Dust Disks and Darwin Meeting
September 2007
Other
National Capital Area Disks Meeting 5
August 2014
STScI Habitable Worlds Across Time & Space
May 2014
ATLAST Team Meeting
May 2014
NASA GSFC Exoplanet Club
March 2014
223rd AAS Meeting
February 2014
International Astronomical Union Symposium 299
July 2013
221st AAS Meeting
February 2013
National Capital Area Disks Meeting
August 2012
NASA GSFC Extrasolar Planets Seminar
October 2011
Gordon Research Conference
August 2011
Carnegie DTM Seminar
July 2011
218th AAS Meeting
June 2011
Carnegie DTM Astronomy Group Meeting
November 2010
215th AAS Meeting
February 2010
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Solar, Stellar, & Planetary Sciences Seminar
December 2009
U. of Maryland Planetary Astronomy Lunch Series
November 2009
41st AAS DPS Meeting
November 2009
Princeton University Wunch Talk
October 2009
National Capital Area Disks Meeting
February 2009
STScI Star & Planet Formation Seminar
February 2009
213th AAS Meeting
February 2009
NASA GSRP Fellowship Symposium
October 2008
Exoplanet Forum
June 2008
National Capital Area Disks Meeting
2007
The Spirit of Lyot Meeting
July 2007
38th AAS DDA Meeting
June 2007
U. of Maryland Unjournal Club
May 2007
NASA GSFC Exoplanet Club
April 2007
Nearby Resolved Debris Disks Workshop
November 2005
Selected Publications
Refereed
2014. "Probing for Exoplanets Hiding in Dusty Debris Disks: Disk Imaging, Characterization, and Exploration with HST/STIS Multi-Roll Coronagraphy." ArXiv e-prints arXiv:1406.7303 [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Revealing Asymmetries in the HD 181327 Debris Disk: A Recent Massive Collision or Interstellar Medium Warping." The Astrophysical Journal 789 58 [10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/58] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "A Survey for Very Short-period Planets in the Kepler Data." The Astrophysical Journal 779 165 [10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/165] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "A Search for Exozodiacal Clouds with Kepler." The Astrophysical Journal 764 195 [10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/195] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Direct imaging of exoEarths embedded in clumpy debris disks." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series 8442 [10.1117/12.926324] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Keck Interferometer Nuller science highlights." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series 8445 [10.1117/12.926548] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "The Link between Planetary Systems, Dusty White Dwarfs, and Metal-polluted White Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal 747 148 [10.1088/0004-637X/747/2/148] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The cold origin of the warm dust around ε Eridani." Astronomy and Astrophysics 527 A57 [10.1051/0004-6361/201015328] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Exozodiacal Dust Levels for Nearby Main-sequence Stars: A Survey with the Keck Interferometer Nuller." The Astrophysical Journal 734 67 [10.1088/0004-637X/734/1/67] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The Transit Light Curve of an Exozodiacal Dust Cloud." [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Nulling interferometry: impact of exozodiacal clouds on the performance of future life-finding space missions." Astronomy and Astrophysics 509 A9 [10.1051/0004-6361/200912973] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Influence of Exozodiacal Dust Clouds on Mid-IR Earth-like Planet Detection." Pathways Towards Habitable Planets 430 422 [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Collisional Grooming Models of the Kuiper Belt Dust Cloud." The Astronomical Journal 140 1007 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-6256/140/4/1007] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "51 Ophiuchus: A Possible Beta Pictoris Analog Measured with the Keck Interferometer Nuller." The Astrophysical Journal 703 1188 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/1188] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "A New Algorithm for Self-consistent Three-dimensional Modeling of Collisions in Dusty Debris Disks." The Astrophysical Journal 707 543 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/543] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "The Detectability of Exo-Earths and Super-Earths Via Resonant Signatures in Exozodiacal Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal 686 637 [Full Text] [10.1086/591442] [Journal Article/Letter]