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Aida Behmard, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Bio

Aida joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in September, 2024. She uses observational and computational/data-driven methods to precisely characterize stars and their planetary systems, with the aim of understanding how they form and evolve throughout the Galaxy. From 2023-2024, she was a Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History. She earned her Ph.D. in planetary science from the California Institute of Technology (2023), and her B.S. in physics from Yale University (2015).

Publications

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, arXiv:2602.18552, July 2026

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, James Aird, Andres Almeida, et al.

The chemical homogeneity of single-lined spectroscopic binaries in open clusters

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, arXiv:2507.07093, April 2026

Amaya Sinha, Gail Zasowski, Natalie R. Myers, Catherine Manea, et al.

Stellar Parameters of BOSS M Dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, arXiv:2511.20005, April 2026

Dan Qiu, Jennifer A. Johnson, Chao Liu, Diogo Souto, et al.

From Earths to Super-Earths: Five New Small Planets Transiting M Dwarf Stars

The Astronomical Journal, arXiv:2512.11971, February 2026

Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Heather A. Knutson, Morgan Saidel, Michael Greklek-McKeon, et al.

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