Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born 1979), is a Catalan astronomer.[1][2] In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign,[3] which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed by the publication of a peer-reviewed article in Nature.[4][5][6][7][8] In 2017, Anglada-Escudé was named amongst the 100 most influential people according to Time,[9] and one of Nature's top 10 scientists of the year 2016.[10] He is currently a research fellow at Institut de Ciències de l'Espai.[11]
Guillem Anglada-Escude | |
|---|---|
 Guillem Anglada | |
| Born | 1979 Ullastrell, Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona PhD |
| Known for | Search for extrasolar planets |
| Awards | Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, Planetary science, Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (2019-) Queen Mary University of London (2013–2019) University of Hertfordshire (2014-2015) University of Göttingen (2012-2013) Carnegie Institution of Washington (2008-2011) |
| Thesis | Experiments and relativistic models for optical astrometry from space. Application to the Gaia mission (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jordi Torra, Sergei A. Klioner |
| Website | www |
| External videos | |
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 “Lo que significa el descubrimiento de Próxima b”, TEDx Valladolid 2017 | |
| “Guillem Anglada-Escudé: Breakthrough Discuss 2017”, Stanford University 2017 | |
| “Journey to the Pale Red Dot”, 2017 |
Publications
edit- Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Amado, Pedro J.; Barnes, John; et al. (2016). "A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri". Nature. 536 (7617): 437–440. arXiv:1609.03449. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..437A. doi:10.1038/nature19106. PMID 27558064. S2CID 4451513.
- Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Arriagada, Pamela; Tuomi, Mikko; Zechmeister, Mathias; Jenkins, James S.; Ofir, Aviv; Dreizler, Stefan; Gerlach, Enrico; Marvin, Christopher J.; Reiners, Ansgar; Jeffers, Sandra V.; Butler, R. Paul; Vogt, Steven S.; Amado, Pedro J.; Rodríguez-López, Cristina; Berdiñas, Zaira M.; Morin, Julien; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Thompson, I. B.; Díaz, M.; Rivera, Eugenio; Sarmiento, Luis F.; Jones, Hugh R. A. (2014). "Two planets around Kapteyn's star: a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red dwarf" (PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 443 (1): L89–L93. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slu076.
- Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Butler, R. Paul (2012). "The HARPS-TERRA project I. Description of the algorithms, performance and new measurements on a few remarkable stars observed by HARPS". The Astrophysical Journal. 200 (2): 15. arXiv:1202.2570. Bibcode:2012ApJS..200...15A. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/200/2/15. S2CID 118528839.
- Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Plavchan, Peter; Mills, Sean; Gao, Peter; García-Berríos, Edgardo; Lewis, Nathan S.; Sung, Keeyoon; Ciardi, David; Beichman, Charles A.; Brinkworth, Carolyn; Johnson, John; Davison, Cassy; White, Russel; Prato, Lisa (2012). "Design and Construction of Absorption Cells for Precision Radial Velocities in the K Band Using Methane Isotopologues". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 124 (916): 586–597. arXiv:1205.1388. Bibcode:2012PASP..124..586A. doi:10.1086/666489. JSTOR 10.1086/666489. S2CID 24552613.
References
edit- ^ "NASA Astrobiology Institute".
- ^ "Finding Proxima b: the 'planet hunters' searching for signs of alien life around nearby stars". Wired UK. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Follow a Live Planet Hunt!". European Southern Observatory. 15 January 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star – Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri". European Southern Observatory. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ Witze, Alexandra (24 August 2016). "Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true" (PDF). Nature. 536 (7617): 381–382. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..381W. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20445. PMID 27558041. S2CID 4405961. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star". European Southern Observatory. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019.
- ^ Wall, Mike (24 August 2016). "Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever". Space.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019.
- ^ Knapton, Sarah (24 August 2016). "Proxima b: Alien life could exist on 'second Earth' found orbiting our nearest star in Alpha Centauri system". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "Natalie Batalha, Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Michaël Gillon".
- ^ "Nature's 10". Nature. 540 (7634): 507–515. 2016. Bibcode:2016Natur.540..507.. doi:10.1038/540507a. PMID 30905952. S2CID 49905540.
- ^ "Institute of Space Sciences". Archived from the original on 2021-05-08. Retrieved 2020-07-05.