# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathy-vivas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:10.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathy-vivas"
name: "Kathy Vivas"
slug: "kathy-vivas"
description: "Anna Katherina Vivas is a Venezuelan astrophysicist recognized for her investigations of and finding up to 100 new and very distant RR Lyrae stars. They are between 13,000 and 220,000 light years from the Sun, and are considered some of the oldest in the Milky Way. Her research has enabled some of the first studies of the structure and properties of the whole halo of the Milky Way and not only its innermost parts. The observation was made possible by combining a telescope with a large format camera, allowing astronomers to cover large portions of the sky in a short amount of time."
tagline: "Venezuelan astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kathy_Vivas_at_her_desk_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.908602150537632
  historical:           7.871490666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "akvivas"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/akvivas/"
    handle:    "akvivas"
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    title: "Kathy Vivas"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katherina_Vivas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump