Fischer showing off her pgplot prowess with a keplerian fit for υ And. Upsilon Andromedae (υ Andromedae / υ And is a Binary star located approximately 44 Light-years away in the Constellation Andromeda.

Debra Fischer is a professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public University The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Fischer has co-authored over 80 papers on dwarf and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighbourhood, including many on extrasolar planets. Academic publishing describes the subfield of Publishing which distributes academic Research and Scholarship. The term dwarf star refers to a variety of distinct classes of Stars Dwarf star alone generally refers to any Main sequence star a star She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets. Geoffrey W Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is famous for discovering more Extrasolar planets than anyone else 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a Planet beyond the Solar System, orbiting around other Stars As of September 2008 312

Debra Fischer has three children.

See also

• List of stars with confirmed planets