Astrophysics Research & Education

Hello! I am a postdoc researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). My primary work supports the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES). The Roman Space Telescope is the next NASA flagship mission to launch no later than Spring 2027. I have also worked on several instrumentation projects at the Keck Observatory and have been a collaborator in the UCLA Galactic Center Group.

I have a passion for teaching and also love participating in scientific Outreach opportunities. I believe every scientist has a duty to broaden and strengthen science literacy worldwide.

Other things that interest me: live sports, playing golf, eating food, and traveling.

Recent Work

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NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System

Terry et al. 2025
This story from NASA features an interview I gave on our new study reporting a candidate for the highest velocity exoplanet system. The paper has been published in The Astronomical Journal, it can be found here.
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Unveiling MOA-2007-BLG-192: An M Dwarf Hosting a Likely Super-Earth

Terry et al. 2024
We use the point spread function reconstruction (PSF-R) software package, AIROPA, on several datasets to test the effectiveness of the PSF-R technique on Keck/NIRC2 adaptive optics (AO) images. The open access journal article can be found here.
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The Galactic Center with Roman

Terry et al. 2023
This white paper describes the opportunities, scientific returns, and trade-offs for a proposed Roman survey of the Galactic Center (GC) during the nominal Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS). This white paper was written in response to the solicitation by the Core Community Survey (CCS) definition committees. The paper can be found on arXiv here.