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NESSF Research Fellow
I am the lead graduate student for the DEUCE payload, a sounding rocket-borne spectrograph designed to obtain the first ever flux-calibrated spectrum of a hot star (Epsilon Canis Majoris) across the lyman limit (700-1150脜).