Astronomy graduate student @ San Diego State University
Space operations developer @ Southwest Research InstituteHi, I'm Caden! I develop software for space science and spacecraft operations. I work on a number of NASA science missions and have previously conducted research in high-energy astrophysics, using multiwavelength data from space and ground-based telescopes around the world. I am passionate about developing innovative software, technology, and instrumentation to enable scientific discoveries across a range of disciplines.
Education
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San Diego State UniversityM.S., Astronomy2025 - present -
George Washington UniversityB.S., Astronomy & Astrophysics
Minors in Mathematics and Mind/Brain Studies2018 - 2022 -
Raisbeck Aviation High School2014 - 2018
Experience
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Southwest Research InstituteSoftware Consultant
Research Analyst
AnalystAugust 2025 - present
April 2025 - August 2025
July 2022 - April 2025 -
George Washington Univ. Dept. of PhysicsResearch FellowMay 2021 - May 2022
Selected Publications (view all )
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Craig DeForest, et al., Caden Gobat
Submitted to Solar Physics 2025
Overview of the NASA PUNCH mission (launched March 2025), a 4-satellite constellation in Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit that collects polarized imagery of the solar corona and heliosphere.
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Craig DeForest, et al., Caden Gobat
Submitted to Solar Physics 2025
Overview of the NASA PUNCH mission (launched March 2025), a 4-satellite constellation in Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit that collects polarized imagery of the solar corona and heliosphere.
A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
Harold F. Levison, et al., Caden Gobat
Nature 2024 Spotlight
Overview of the Lucy spacecraft's flyby of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh, and announcement of its discovery that Dinkinesh is a binary system in which the smaller body is itself a contact binary.
A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
Harold F. Levison, et al., Caden Gobat
Nature 2024 Spotlight
Overview of the Lucy spacecraft's flyby of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh, and announcement of its discovery that Dinkinesh is a binary system in which the smaller body is itself a contact binary.
The Lucy Mission Science Operations Center
Joel Wm. Parker, Emma Birath, M. Katherine Crombie, Anthony Egan, Caden Gobat, Ann Harch, David Kaufmann, Brian Keeney, Jon Pineau, Debi Rose, Julien Salmon, Zach Talpas, Mike Wallace, Gerald E. Weigle, Zach Wiens, Harold F. Levison
55th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences 2023
Description of the Science Operations Center for NASA's Lucy mission.
The Lucy Mission Science Operations Center
Joel Wm. Parker, Emma Birath, M. Katherine Crombie, Anthony Egan, Caden Gobat, Ann Harch, David Kaufmann, Brian Keeney, Jon Pineau, Debi Rose, Julien Salmon, Zach Talpas, Mike Wallace, Gerald E. Weigle, Zach Wiens, Harold F. Levison
55th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences 2023
Description of the Science Operations Center for NASA's Lucy mission.
Design and Implementation of the Lucy Mission PDS4 Archive
Caden Gobat, M. Katherine Crombie, Joel Wm. Parker, David Kaufmann
6th Planetary Data Workshop 2023
Description of the Lucy mission's PDS4 archive design, delivery schedule, and software suite.
Design and Implementation of the Lucy Mission PDS4 Archive
Caden Gobat, M. Katherine Crombie, Joel Wm. Parker, David Kaufmann
6th Planetary Data Workshop 2023
Description of the Lucy mission's PDS4 archive design, delivery schedule, and software suite.
Optical darkness in short-duration γ-ray bursts
Caden Gobat, Alexander J. van der Horst, David Fitzpatrick
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 Spotlight
Comprehensive investigation into optical darkness (dimmer-than-expected flux in the optical band) in short GRBs, which are associated with binary neutron star merger events.
Optical darkness in short-duration γ-ray bursts
Caden Gobat, Alexander J. van der Horst, David Fitzpatrick
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 Spotlight
Comprehensive investigation into optical darkness (dimmer-than-expected flux in the optical band) in short GRBs, which are associated with binary neutron star merger events.
Catalog of X-ray Detected Be Stars (XDBS)
Caden Gobat, Hui Yang, Oleg Kargaltsev, Jeremy Hare, Igor Volkov
Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 2022
We present a catalog of X-ray Detected Be Stars (XDBS) with 161 Be stars from the Be Star Spectra (BeSS) database having X-ray counterparts in the Chandra Source Catalog v2.0, XMM-Newton 4XMM-DR11 Catalog, or Swift 2SXPS Catalog.
Catalog of X-ray Detected Be Stars (XDBS)
Caden Gobat, Hui Yang, Oleg Kargaltsev, Jeremy Hare, Igor Volkov
Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 2022
We present a catalog of X-ray Detected Be Stars (XDBS) with 161 Be stars from the Be Star Spectra (BeSS) database having X-ray counterparts in the Chandra Source Catalog v2.0, XMM-Newton 4XMM-DR11 Catalog, or Swift 2SXPS Catalog.