ARKS
The ALMA Survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) is a Cycle 9 ALMA Large Program aiming to observe and characterize debris disks --- dusty analogues of the Solar System's Kuiper Belt. Results coming Fall 2025!
About Me
Hello! My name is Brianna Zawadzki, and I am an astronomer working on planet formation and circumstellar disks. Since earning my PhD from Penn State University in 2023, I have been working as a Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University.
Research
Lately, I have been working on ALMA observations of protoplanetary (younger) and debris (older) disks, as well as developing techniques to better image such observations. See below for a few highlights!
exoALMA
exoALMA is a Cycle 8 ALMA Large Program searching for young, still-forming planets embedded in their disks. I led exoALMA IX, which focuses on developing and applying alternative imaging techniques to enable the detection and characterization of the small-scale disk features at high confidence.
RML Imaging
During my PhD, I contributed to Million Points of Light (MPoL), a Python package designed for interferomeric imaging. I used MPoL to develop a robust RML imaging and validation workflow for ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks. Read the paper here.
Contact Me
Please feel free to email me at bzawadzki (at) wesleyan (dot) edu