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DANIEL HEY

Variable stars postdoctoral research fellow

C-120

Institute for Astronomy

University of Hawaiʻi

Hey, I’m Dan Hey, an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I mostly
work on asteroseismology, which is the study of stellar pulsations. Similar to
how seismology studies vibrations in Earth, asteroseismology studies the
vibrations of a star. By analyzing these stellar pulsations we can gain insight
into a star’s internal structure, composition, and evolutionary state.

I am particularly interested in the pulsation characteristics of A-type stars (δ
Scuti and roAp variables), as well as evolved red giant variables. Recently, I
have been working on mapping the kinematics and structure of the Milky Way using
long-period variables.

Besides asteroseismology, I do a good amount of programming and a bad amount of
statistics. I have a keen interest in Gaussian Processes, and how they can be
applied to time-domain astronomical data. Outside of work, I like
silversmithing, hiking, and baking bread.

My previous website was a choose your own adventure game which I worked far too
hard on. I have archived it here. Enjoy!