# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tabetha-s-boyajian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:32:21.162Z

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name: "Tabetha S. Boyajian"
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description: "Tabetha \"Tabby\" Suzanne Boyajian is an American astronomer and associate professor at Louisiana State University. She works in the fields of stellar interferometry, stellar spectroscopy, exoplanet research, and high angular resolution astronomy, all particularly at optical and infrared wavelengths. Boyajian was the lead author of the September 2015 paper \"Where's the Flux?\", which investigated the highly unusual light curve of KIC 8462852; the star is colloquially known as Tabby's Star in her honor."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump