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Professional astronomer
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Elisabetta Caffau is an astronomer who discovered a 13-billion-year-old, low mass, dwarf star named SDSS J102915+172927, or Caffau's Star in 2011. She earned a PhD in observational astronomy from the Paris Observatory in 2009 and completed a one-year post-doctoral program there as well. She received the Gliese fellowship Grant in 2010 and was awarded the Merac Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher by the European Astronomical Society in 2013.

References

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  3. Bonifacio, P.; Caffau, E.; Spite, M.; Spite, F.; François, P.; Zaggia, S.; Arenou, F.; Haigron, R.; Leclerc, N. (2018-04-27). "Gaia confirms that SDSS J102915+172927 is a dwarf star". Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 2 (2): 19. arXiv:1804.10419. Bibcode:2018RNAAS...2...19B. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/aac0f4. S2CID 85449621.
  4. Lemonick, Michael D. (2011-09-06). "Cosmic Anomaly: The Star That Shouldn't Exist". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  5. Caffau, Elisabetta; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; François, Patrick; Sbordone, Luca; Monaco, Lorenzo; Spite, Monique; Spite, François; Ludwig, Hans-G.; Cayrel, Roger (September 2011). "An extremely primitive star in the Galactic halo". Nature. 477 (7362): 67–69. arXiv:1203.2612. Bibcode:2011Natur.477...67C. doi:10.1038/nature10377. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 21886158. S2CID 4314241.
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