Steven Scott Vogt (born December 20, 1949) is an American

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

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whose main interest is the search for

extrasolar planet An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...

s. He is credited, along with

R. Paul Butler Robert Paul Butler (born 1960) is an astronomer and staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., who searches for extrasolar planets. he and his team have discovered over half of the planets found orbiting nea ...

, for discovering

Gliese 581 g Gliese 581g , unofficially known as Zarmina (or Zarmina's World), was a candidate exoplanet postulated to orbit within the Gliese 581 system, twenty light-years from Earth. It was discovered by the Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey, and was the si ...

, the first potentially habitable planet outside of the

Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar S ...

. He is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

, and is known worldwide for designing and building

HIRES Hires may refer to: * High Resolution Fly's Eye, ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observatory * High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer or High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph, W. M. Keck Observatory's spectrometer * Hires Big H, restaurant chain headquar ...

, a high-resolution optical spectrometer mounted permanently on the

W. M. Keck Observatory The W. M. Keck Observatory is an astronomical observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes have aperture primary mirrors, and when comp ...

10-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. HIRES is an instrument critical to observations and discoveries about the planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe. Vogt also built the Hamilton spectrometer at

Lick Observatory The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, United States. The observatory is managed by th ...

(with which most of the first extrasolar planets were discovered). In 1987, earlier in his career, Vogt invented the technique of "

Doppler imaging Inhomogeneous structures on stellar surfaces, i.e. temperature differences, chemical composition or magnetic fields, create characteristic distortions in the spectral lines due to the Doppler effect. These distortions will move across spectral li ...

" for mapping the surface features of stars. Vogt is currently a member of the California-Carnegie Planet Search Team. This team is building a new telescope in the Lick Observatory, the

Automated Planet Finder The Automated Planet Finder (APF) Telescope a.k.a. Rocky Planet Finder, is a fully robotic 2.4-meter optical telescope at Lick Observatory, situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California, USA.Steven S. Vogt et al., APF - ...

, expected to be the most powerful in the world for detecting extrasolar planets. It will be able to track planets moving at velocities as little as 1 meter per second (the speed of a walking man). Vogt and his team are credited with detecting a majority of the 100 planets now known. Vogt received his bachelor's degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, in 1972, his Master of Science degree in Astronomy from

UT Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

in 1976, and Ph.D in Astronomy from UT Austin in 1978. He's been a member of the

University of California Observatories The University of California Observatories (UCO) is a multi-campus astronomical research unit of the University of California, with headquarters on the UC Santa Cruz campus. UCO operates the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, and the technical l ...

(UCO) at Lick Observatory since 1978.

Planets discovered

* 55 Cancri f, with coauthors

Debra Fischer Debra Ann Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system. Education Fischer received her degree from ...

, Paul Butler,

Geoffrey Marcy Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer. He was an early influence in the field of exoplanet detection, discovery, and characterization. Marcy was a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berk ...

(Vogt's first

graduate student Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree. The organization and stru ...

), ''et al.'', published by

Science Daily ''Science Daily'' is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!. The site was founded by mar ...

, 6 November 2007. * the controverted

planet, with co-investigator Paul Butler, 29 September 2010.

Prizes

*1983 ** Bergmann Memorial Award, for Vogt's ''High Speed Observations of Be Stars Associated with X-Ray Sources.'' *1995 ** Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award - The award for ''recent observations using innovative advances in astronomical instrumentation, software, or observational infrastructure.'' *2002 **

Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize is awarded every other year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character. The prize is na ...

, for Vogt, Geoffrey Marcy, and Paul Butler on their ''Pioneering work in characterizing planetary systems orbiting distant stars.'' **

Carl Sagan Memorial Award The Carl Sagan Memorial Award is an award presented jointly by the American Astronautical Society and The Planetary Society to an individual or group "who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the Cosmos." The ...

- The award for ''an individual who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the Cosmos.''

Books

*Steven Scott Vogt
''A magnetic study of the spotted UV Ceti flare stars and related late-type dwarfs''
s.n., 1978. *Steven Scott Vogt
''HIRES, a high resolution echelle spectrometer for the Keck ten-meter telescope: phase C, HIRES core''
- Issue 57 of Lick Observatory technical reports. University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, 1991 *Steven Scott Vogt
''HIRES user's manual''
- Issue 67 of Lick Observatory technical reports. Lick Observatory, 1994. *Steven Scott Vogt
''A thorium-argon line atlas for the Keck HIRES spectrometer''
- Issue 88 of Lick Observatory technical reports. Lick Observatory, 1999.

References

External links

Home page
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(UCO)/

* at Vogt's home page {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogt, Steven S. Living people 1949 births American astronomers Discoverers of exoplanets UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Lick Observatory Winners of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize

Planets discovered

Prizes

Books

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