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Kepler de Souza Oliveira Filho (born 16 February 1956), also known as S. O. Kepler, is a Brazilian astronomer primarily known for his work on white dwarfs, variable stars, and magnetars. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, he is currently a professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).[1]

Biography

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Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Kepler obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. In January 2006, Oliveira and researchers at the University of Texas identified a pulsating white dwarf star, G117-B15A, as the most stable known optical clock, more stable than an atomic clock. The team's findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal.[2]

He was president of the Sociedade Brasileira de Astronomia from 2002 to 2004, and is its current vice-president (2014-2016).[3] He served on the SOAR and Gemini Board for the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which is responsible for managing the Gemini Observatory.[4] Together with Antonio Nemmer Kanaan Neto and other researchers, he is the co-discoverer of BPM37093, the "Diamond Star", a crystallized carbon-oxygen core pulsating white dwarf. With Detlev Koester and Gustavo Ourique, he discovered SDSSJ1240+6710, an oxygen white dwarf, "Dox".[5]

Together with Maria de Fátima Oliveira Saraiva, he is the author of the book and site Astronomia e Astrofísica.[6]

References

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  • ^ "Press release: Astronomers find most stable optical clock in the heavens | McDonald Observatory". Mcdonald Observatory. 1 December 2005.
  • ^ Diretoria: Biênio 2014/2016 Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese). Sociedade Brasileira de Astronomia. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  • ^ "AURA Directory". Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  • ^ Kepler, S. O.; Koester, D.; Ourique, G. (31 March 2016). "A white dwarf with an oxygen atmosphere". Science. 352 (6281): 67–69. Bibcode:2016Sci...352...67K. doi:10.1126/science.aad6705. PMID 27034367.
  • ^ "Astronomia e Astrofísica". Retrieved 7 June 2016.
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