Paul Robertson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy Email: [email protected] The University of California, Irvine Phone: (949) 824-6660 4129 Frederick Reines Hall Web: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/robertson/ Irvine, CA 92697

EDUCATION

Doctor in Astrophysics, 2013 The University of Texas, Austin, TX Dissertation: “Discovering New Solar Systems: Jupiter Analogs and the Quest to Find Another Earth”

Master of Arts in Astrophysics, 2010 The University of Texas, Austin, TX Thesis: “The Hobby-Eberly Telescope M dwarf Planet Search Program: New Observations and Results”

Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics, 2008 The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, UC Irvine 2018-present

NASA Sagan Fellow, Penn State University 2015-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University 2013-2015

AWARDS

University of New South Wales Science Visiting Fellowship, 2016

Carl Sagan Fellowship, NASA, 2015

Graduate Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas, 2012-2013

Frank N. Edmonds Jr. Memorial Fellowship in Astronomy, The University of Texas, 2011-2012

Graduate with Distinction, The University of North Carolina, 2008 FIRST-AUTHORED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Robertson, P., Anderson, T., Stefansson, G. et al. 2019, “Ultra-Stable Environment Control for the NEID Spectrometer: Design and Performance Demonstration.” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, accepted. arXiv:1902.07729.

Robertson, P. 2018. “Aliasing in the Radial Velocities of YZ Ceti: An Ultra-short Period for YZ Ceti c?” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 864, p. 28.

Robertson, P., Bender, C., Mahadevan, S., Roy, A., & Ramsey, L. W. 2016. “Proxima Centauri as a Benchmark for Stellar Activity Indicators in the Near Infrared.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 832, p. 112.

Robertson, P., Roy, A., & Mahadevan, S. 2015. “Stellar activity mimics a habitable-zone planet around Kapteyn’s star.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 805, p. 22.

Robertson, P., Endl, M., Henry, G. W., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., & Williamson, M. H. 2015. “Stellar Activity and its Implications for Exoplanet Detection on GJ 176.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 801, p. 79.

Robertson, P. & Mahadevan, S. 2014. “Disentangling Planets and Stellar Activity for Gliese 667C.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 793, p. 24.

Robertson, P., Mahadevan, S., Endl, M., & Roy, A. 2014. “Stellar Activity Masquerading as Planets in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf Gliese 581.” Science, Vol. 345, p. 440.

Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., & Boss, A. P. 2013. “Secretly Eccentric: The Giant Planet and Activity Cycle of GJ 328.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 774, p. 147.

Robertson, P., Shields, G. A., Blanc, G. A., Davé, R., & Wright, A. 2013. “Dependence of Nebular Heavy-Element Abundance on HI content for Spiral Galaxies.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 773, p. 4.

Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., & Dodson-Robinson, S. E. 2013. “Ha Activity of Old M Dwarfs: Stellar Cycles and Mean Activity Levels For 93 Low-Mass Stars in the Solar Neighborhood.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 764, p. 3.

Robertson, P., Horner, J., Wittenmyer, R. A. et al. 2012. “A Second Giant Planet in 3:2 Mean- Motion Resonance in the HD 204313 System.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 754, p. 50.

Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D. et al. 2012. “The McDonald Observatory Planet Search: New Long-Period Giant Planets, and Two Interacting Jupiters in the HD 155358 System.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 749, p. 39.

Robertson, P., Shields, G. A., & Blanc, G. A. 2012. “Enhanced Abundances in Spiral Galaxies of the Pegasus I Cluster.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 748, p. 48. CONTRIBUTING PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Metcalf, A. J., Anderson, T., Bender, C. F. et al. 2019. “Stellar Spectroscopy in the Near-infrared with a Laser Frequency Comb.” Optica, Vol. 6(2), p. 233.

Furlan, E., Ciardi, D. R., Cochran, W. D. et al. 2018. “The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program. II. Stellar Parameters from Medium- and High-resolution Spectroscopy.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 861, p. 149.

Jontof-Hutter, D., Truong, V., Ford, E. B., Robertson, P., & Terrien, R. C. 2018. “Dynamical Constraints on Nontransiting Planets Orbiting TRAPPIST-1.” The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 155, p. 239.

Stefánsson, G. K., Mahadevan, S., Hebb, L. et al. 2017. “Toward Space-like Photometric Precision from the Ground with Beam-shaping Diffusers.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 848, p. 9.

Stefánsson, G. K., Hearty, F., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “A Versatile Technique to Enable Sub- Milli-Kelvin Instrument Stability for Precise Radial Velocity Measurements: Tests with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 833, p. 175.

Fischer, D., Anglada-Escudé, G., Arriagada, P. et al. 2016. “State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 128, p. 066001.

Johnson, M. C., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., Meschiari, S., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “A 12-year activity cycle for the nearby planet host star HD 219134.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 821, p. 74.

Wittenmyer, R. A., Johnson, J. A., Butler, R. P., Horner, J., Wang, L., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. IV. Two super-Jupiters in a 3:5 resonance orbiting the giant star HD 33844.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 818, p. 35.

Endl, M., Brugamyer, E., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “Two New Long-Period Giant Planets from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search and Two Stars with Long-Period Radial Velocity Signals Related to Stellar Activity Cycles.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 818, p. 34.

Nelson, B. E., Robertson, P., Payne, M. et al. 2016. “An Empirically Derived Three-Dimensional Laplace Resonance in the Gliese 876 Planetary System.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 455, p. 2484.

Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Bender, C. F., Deshpande, R., & Robertson, P. 2015. “M Dwarf Luminosity, Radius, and α-enrichment from I-band Spectral Features.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 802, p. 10. Marchwinski, R. C., Mahadevan, S., Robertson, P., Ramsey, L. W., & Harder, J. 2015. “Towards Understanding Stellar Radial Velocity Jitter as a Function of Wavelength: The Sun as a Proxy.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 798, p. 63.

Endl, M., Caldwell, D. C., Barclay, T. et al. 2014. “Kepler-424b: A ‘Lonely’ Hot Jupiter That Found A Companion.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 795, p. 151.

Marcy, G. W., Isaacson, H., Howard, A. W. et al. 2014. “Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplements, Vol. 210, p. 20.

Antoci, V., Handler, G., Grundahl, F., Carrier, F., Brugamyer, E. J., Robertson, P. et al. 2013. “Searching for solar-like oscillations in the d Scuti star r Puppis.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 435, p. 1563.

Green, J. D., Robertson, P., Baek, G. et al. 2013. “Possible Detection of the Accretion Streams onto a Young Stellar Object: Optical/Near-IR Rapid Cadence Monitoring of HBC 722.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 764, p. 22.

Steffen, J. H., Fabrycky, D. C., Agol, E. et al. 2013. “Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: VII. Confirmation of 27 planets in 13 multiplanet systems via Transit Timing Variations and orbital stability.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 428, p. 1077.

Endl, M., Robertson, P., Cochran, W. D. et al. 2012. “Revisiting r1 Cancri e: A New Mass Determination of the Transiting super-Earth.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 759, p. 19.

Breger, M., Fossati, L., Balona, L., Kurtz, D. W., Robertson, P. et al. 2012. “Relationship between low and high frequencies in A/F hybrid stars: Photometric Kepler and spectroscopic analyses of the rapid rotator KIC 8054146.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 759, p.59.

Buchhave, L. A., Latham, D. W., Johansen, A. et al. 2012. “An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities.” Nature, Vol. 486, p. 375.

Borucki W. J., Koch, D. G., Batalha, N. et al. 2012. “Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star.” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 745, p. 120.

Welsh, W. F., Orosz, J. A., Carter, J. A. et al. 2012. “Transiting Circumbinary Planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b.” Nature, Vol. 481, p. 475.

Bayless, A. J., Robinson, E. L., Mason, P. A., & Robertson, P. 2011. “The Optical Orbital Light Curve of the Low-Mass X-ray Binary V1408 Aquilae (=4U 1957+115).” The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 730, p. 43.

Rose, J. A., Robertson, P., Miner, J., & Levy, L. 2010. “Star Formation in Partially Gas-Depleted Spiral Galaxies.” The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 139, p. 765. CONTRIBUTING PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Horner, J., Wittenmyer, R. A., Tinney, C. G., Robertson, P., Hinse, T. C., & Marshall, J. P. “Dynamical Constraints on Multi-Planet Exoplanetary Systems.” Proceedings of the 12th Annual Australian Space Science Conference, 2013. arXiv:1302.5247

FIRST-AUTHORED NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Robertson, P., Hearty, F., Anderson, T. et al. 2016. “A system to provide sub-milliKelvin temperature control at T~300K for extreme precision optical radial velocimetry.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 228.

Robertson, P., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., MacQueen, P. J., & Hatzes, A. P. 2015. “30 Years of the McDonald Observatory Planet Search.” Proceedings of the colloquium “Twenty years of giant exoplanets,” Ed. Boisse, I., Demangeon, O., Bouchy, F., & Arnold, L. http://ohp2015.scienceconf.org

CONTRIBUTING NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Ninan, J. P., Bender, C. F., Mahadevan, S. et al. 2018. “The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: improved flux image generation algorithms for H2RG up-the-ramp data.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 10702, id. 2U.

Kanodia, S., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W. et al. 2018. “Overview of the spectrometer optical fiber feed for the habitable-zone planet finder.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 10702, id. 6Q.

Stefánsson, G. K., Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W. et al. 2018. “Extreme precision photometry from the ground with beam-shaping diffusers for K2, TESS, and beyond.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 10702, id. 50.

Schwab, C., Liang, M., Gong, Q. et al. 2018. “The NEID precision radial velocity spectrometer: optical design of the port adapter and ADC.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 10702, id. 71.

Wright, J. T. & Robertson, P. 2017. “The Third Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities: The New Instruments.” Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 1, id. 51.

Li, Y., Stefánsson, G. K., Robertson, P. et al. 2017. “A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri.” Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 1, id. 49.

Bender, C., Robertson, P., Monson, A. et al. 2016. “The instrument control software package for the Habitable-zone Planet Finder spectrometer.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9913, id. 158. Halverson, S., Terrien, R. C., Mahadevan, S. et al. 2016. “A comprehensive radial velocity error budget for next generation Doppler spectrometers.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 254.

Hearty, F., Mahadevan, S., Levi, E., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “Demonstrated precision environmental control techniques: a blueprint for a broad range of precision RV instruments.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 260.

Mahadevan, S., Anderson, T., Bender, C. et al. 2016. “The habitable-zone planet finder: AI&V status and summary of research and development to achieve high precision NIR Doppler radial velocities.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 40.

Schwab, C., Rakich, A. P., Mahadevan, S. et al. 2016. “Optical design for NEID, a proposed spectrometer for NASA’s WIYN extreme precision Doppler spectrometer.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 282.

Stefánsson, G. K., Hearty, F., Robertson, P. et al. 2016. “Ultra-stable temperature and pressure control for the Habitable-zone Planet Finder spectrograph.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9908, id. 266.

Horner, J., Wittenmyer, R. A., Marshall, J. P., Hinse, T. C., & Robertson, P. 2014. “Testing proposed planetary systems—to destruction.” Astronomy & Geophysics, Vol. 55, Issue 4, p. 4.30.

Hearty, F., Levi, E., Nelson, M. et al. 2014. “Environmental control system for Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF).” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9147, id. 52.

Mahadevan, S., Ramsey, L. W., Terrien, R. et al. 2014. “The Habitable-zone Planet Finder: A status update on the development of a stabilized fiber-fed near-infrared spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly telescope.” Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9147, id. 1G.

INVITED COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS

2019: “A New Era of Precision in Doppler Exoplanet Science.” Louisiana State University Physics & Astronomy Colloquium. Baton Rouge, LA, January 17.

2018: “Infrared Light and the Red Dwarfs: HPF and the Quest to Understand our Nearest Neighbors.” University of Notre Dame Astronomy Seminar. South Bend, IN, September 11.

2017: “From Cataloging to Characterizing: New Tools and Techniques for a New Era of Exoplanet Science.” University of North Carolina Astrophysics Colloquium. Chapel Hill, NC, February 23.

2017: “Discovering Exoplanets for Astrobiological Characterization and the Role of Precision Spectroscopy.” University of California, Irvine Astrophysics Seminar. Irvine, CA, February 9.

2016: “The Future of Exoplanet Science at McDonald Observatory.” University of Texas Department of Astronomy colloquium. Austin, TX, October 25. 2015: “New challenges at the threshold of sub-m/s radial velocimetry.” University of Chicago astronomy department seminar, November 13.

2015: “New challenges at the threshold of sub-m/s radial velocimetry.” Penn State astronomy department colloquium. University Park, PA, September 2.

2014: “Finding Earths with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and the Stellar Activity Problem.” University of Delaware, February 11.

INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2019: “Exploring Our Coolest Stellar Neighbors with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF).” Poster Presentation. Thirtieth Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium. National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, February 28.

2019: “High-Cadence Monitoring of the Sun’s Coolest Neighbors.” Oral Presentation. Time- Domain Follow-up Observations with Las Cumbres Observatory. Seattle, WA, January 7.

2019: “The NEID precision radial velocity spectrometer: project overview and status update.” Oral Presentation. ExoPAG 2019. Seattle, WA, January 5.

2018: “The NEID precision radial velocity spectrometer: project overview and status update.” Oral Presentation. Defining the Landscape for Precision Radial Velocity (PRV) Science in the 2018-2028 Time Frame. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, August 8.

2017: “The NEID Spectrograph.” Oral Presentation. 3rd Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities. Penn State University, State College, PA, August 14-17.

2016: “Beware the double agent: avoiding false-positive exoplanets.” Oral Presentation. Opportunity M. Harvard Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, August 29-31.

2016: “Separating Stellar Activity from Doppler Shifts.” SAMSI ASTRO: Opening Workshop. SAMSI Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, August 22-26.

2015: “Stellar Activity and RV in M Dwarf Stars.” Extreme Precision Radial Velocities (2nd Workshop). Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 5-9.

2015: “Spotting Blue Planets Around Spotted Red Stars: Removing Stellar Activity from Radial Velocities of M Dwarf Stars.” Oral Presentation. Sagan/Michelson Fellows Symposium. Pasadena, CA, May 7-8.

CONTRIBUTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2016: “A system to provide sub-milliKelvin temperature control at T~300K for extreme precision optical radial velocimetry.” Poster Presentation. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Edinburgh, UK, June 26-30.

2014: “Goldilocks Can’t Stay Here: Habitable Zone Planets Around Gliese 581 are Stellar Activity Signals.” Oral presentation. Towards Other Earths II: The Star-Planet Connection. Porto, Portugal, September 15-19.

2014: “Planets, Cycles, and Starspots: Disentangling Stellar Activity from Radial Velocity for Cool Stars.” Oral dissertation presentation. 223rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Washington, D.C., January 5-9.

2013: “Magnetic activity of old M stars and its influence on radial velocity.” Poster presentation. From Stars to Life. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 3-6.

2013: “Hα Activity of Old M Dwarfs: Stellar Cycles and Mean Activity Levels For 93 Low-Mass Stars in the Solar Neighborhood.” Oral presentation. 221st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Long Beach, CA, January 6-10.

2012: “The McDonald Observatory Planet Search: New Long-Periodic Giant Planets, and Two Interacting Jupiters in the HD 155358 System.” Poster presentation. 219th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Austin, TX, January 8-12.

2011: “Abundances in Spiral Galaxies of the Pegasus I Cluster.” Poster presentation. 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Seattle, WA, January 9-13.

MEDIA COVERAGE (abbreviated)

Hadhazy, A. 2015. “Meet the Exoplanet Class of 2014.” Discover, January/February, p. 92.

Billings, L. 2014. “War of the Worlds.” Wired, December 1, p. 158. http://www.wired.com/2014/11/exoplanets/

Shostak, S. 2014. “A Stellar Job.” Big Picture Science (radio), July 21. http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/A_Stellar_Job

Lemonick, M. D. 2014. “One of the Most Earthlike Planets Ever Found May Not Exist.” National Geographic, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140703-space-planet-gliese- starspot-astronomy-science/ (July 3).

Quenqua, D. 2014. “Earthlike Planets May Be Merely an Illusion.” The New York Times, July 8, p. D2 (New York edition). http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/earthlike-planets-may- be-merely-an-illusion.html?_r=0 (July 7).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH (LAST 3 YEARS)

• Faculty advisor, “The Science Fair,” UCI Drama, 2019. • Member, UCO Time Allocation Committees, 2018-present. • Public speaker, UCI Lunar Eclipse Event, January 20, 2019 • Faculty advisor, Science Olympiad, UC Irvine, 2018. • Member, NOAO WIYN Time Allocation Committee, 2017-2020. • Chair, Local Organizing Committee, 3rd Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities, 2017. • Webmaster, The Habitable Zone Planet Finder Blog, http://hpf.psu.edu • Webmaster, The NEID Blog, http://neid.psu.edu • Faculty mentor for Penn State Summer Research Opportunities Program, Summer 2016. • Article referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2014-present.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, The University of California, Irvine 2018-Present

Faculty Mentor, Summer Research Opportunities Program Summer 2016

Substitute Lecturer, Astrobiology, The Pennsylvania State University November 2014

Guest Lecturer, Austin Community College 2012

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas 2008-2012