http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/ 2008-12-03T21:07:04-08:00 http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/ http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-01-14T16:37:15-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1200357435&do=diff Array ---------- * Start * Research * Current * Past * CV * Personal * Pictures * Links ---------- UCSC Astronomy UCSC text/html 2008-01-14T16:31:33-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=blog:test_1&rev=1200357093&do=diff text/html 2007-11-25T16:40:09-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=cv&rev=1196037609&do=diff Education * M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006 * B.A. Astronomy, cum laude, Cornell University, 2003 * B.A. Economics, Cornell University, 2003 Research Experience * 2004-Present: Graduate Student Research Assistant, UC Santa Cruz * 2003-2004: Research Assistant, University of Florida * 2002: Research Assistant, STScI * 2001: Research Assistant, Cornell University text/html 2007-11-19T22:54:41-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=research:current&rev=1195541681&do=diff Galaxy Clusters My thesis focuses on two galaxy clusters at z=0.83, RX J0152.7-1357 and MS 1054.4-0321. Both of these clusters are very massive (~1015 MSun) X-ray luminous sources that are in the process of assembling at a time when the universe was half its present age. text/html 2007-10-31T23:39:14-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=start&rev=1193899154&do=diff [Big Sur]Hello friend! I am a 4th year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UCSC. I study galaxies in clusters and in their outskirts. Please visit one of the links on the left to learn more about me. ---------- Contact Info * Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB), Room 112. * (831)-459-3840 * patel [at] ucolick [dot] org text/html 2007-10-21T23:53:49-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=links&rev=1193036029&do=diff text/html 2007-10-21T23:53:05-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=pictures&rev=1193035985&do=diff Coming soon! text/html 2007-10-21T23:52:46-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=personal&rev=1193035966&do=diff Bio I was born in Houston, Texas in 1981. Before I knew what was happening, my family moved to Southern California where we lived in the Cerritos area for ~6 years. I attended Benito Juarez Elementary School for Kindergarten and Stowers Elementary for grades 1-5. During my tenure at Stowers, the school was sued by Warner Brothers as they did not find our mascot of the road runner kosher. They are now known as the snow leopards.’ text/html 2007-10-21T23:51:57-08:00 Shannon Patel http://www.ucolick.org/~patel/doku.php?id=research:past&rev=1193035917&do=diff Brown dwarfs around solar-type stars I recently wrapped up a project with Steve Vogt concerning brown dwarfs in the Keck & Lick radial velocity survey, which is better known as the California & Carnegie Planet Search. While many planets have been found in this survey of solar-type stars, there has been a lack of detected brown dwarfs within separations of ~3 AU, hence the phrase “brown dwarf desert”.’