C.V.
Education
PhD, California Institute of Technology, 2017-
Advisors: Heather Knutson and Dave Stevenson
M. Sci, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 2016-17
Advisors: Cathie Clarke, Amaury Triaud, Richard Booth
B. A., Natural Sciences (Physics), University of Cambridge, 2013-16
Recipient of: Institute of Astronomy Prize, Dirac Prize,
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship,
SIA Youth Scholarship
Selected Publications
1.
Chachan, Y. & Stevenson, D. J. 2018, On the role of dissolved gases in the atmosphere retention of Low-Mass Low-Density planets, ApJ, 854, 21,
arXiv:1802.04296
2. Zhang, M.,
Chachan, Y., Kempton, E. M.-R., & Knutson, H. A. 2019, Forward modelling and retrievals with PLATON, a fast open source tool, PASP, 131, 034501,
arXiv:1811.11761
3.
Chachan, Y. & Stevenson, D. J. 2019, A linear approximation for the effect of cylindrical differential rotation on gravitational moments: Application to the non-unique interpretation of Saturn's gravity, Icarus, 323, 87,
arXiv:1902.10728
4.
Chachan, Y., Booth, R. A., Triaud, A. H. M. J., & Clarke, C. 2018, Dust accretion in binary systems: Implications for planets and transition discs, MNRAS, 489, 3896,
arXiv:1908.11377,
astrobites
5.
Chachan, Y., Knutson, H., Gao, P., Kataria, T., et al. 2019, A
Hubble PanCET Study of HAT-P-11b: A cloudy Neptune with a low atmospheric metallicity, AJ, 158, 244,
arXiv:1910.07523
6. Zhang, M.,
Chachan, Y., Kempton, E. M.-R., Knutson, H. A., & Chang, W. 2020, PLATON II: New capabilities and a comprehensive retrieval on HD 189733b transit and eclipse data, ApJ, 899, 27,
arXiv:2004.09513
7.
Chachan, Y., Jontof-Hutter, D. J., Knutson, H., et al. 2020, A featureless infrared transmission spectrum for the super-puff planet Kepler-79d, AJ, 160, 201,
arXiv:2008.05480
ADS
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