I check the quality and completeness of each day's science data downloaded from the spacecraft and help to prepare the data for scientific analysis. I also help to monitor some aspects of the health and performance of the spacecraft. I am interested in how stars evolve both on the main sequence and in the pre-main sequence phase of evolution. The time evolution of rotation rates and activity levels gives us clues about how the underlying magnetic dynamos operate in these kind of stars. I am also interested in very low mass stars amd brown dwarfs.
Brown dwarfs are objects of sub-stellar mass made of highly compressed hydrogen and helium.
These objects are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion reactions in their cores.