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our team captured the first image of an exoplanet with JWST!
I helped work on the publication that showcased the first direct images of an exoplanet taken with JWST, and I made some art from our data!
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first time out of the country
in which I travel to “across the pond” for astronomy conferences and enjoy the summer sun
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my first article as a freelancer is out!
my first article as a freelance science journalist has been published at the Planetary Society!
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my first first-author paper: how not to form a binary sunset
I’m officially a published astronomer! My paper, titled “Improved Orbital Constraints and H-alpha Photometric Monitoring of the Directly Imaged Protoplanet Analog HD 142527 B” has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. In this post, I talk through some of the paper’s findings.
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citizen sleeper is my salve
I’ve anticipated the release of Citizen Sleeper, the second game by developer Jump Over the Age and published by Fellow Traveler, since its first teaser was released. I anticipated it because Jump Over the Age’s first game, In Other Waters quite literally changed my life. Citizen Sleeper might do it again.
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desert power, mountain time
in which I travel to an observatory and have a good time
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40 days and 40 nights
in which i learn no lesson, discover no hidden truth, except for my decided fondness of being dry.
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above 500
In which I learn valuable lessons about writing observing proposals, deadlines, and telescope time allocation, reflect on my self doubt, and bat above 500 in my first proposal season. I suppose it can only go down from here, right? Nearly all the astronomers I know submit tens, hundreds of proposals and have acceptance rates on…
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the once and future PI: my first observations as principle investigator using the ARC 3.5m telescope
In which I reflect on being responsible. I sit in the late hours of the night, towards the end of the year, in front of my bright computer screens. Tonight is my last scheduled observation for my Quarter 4 program, my fifth night of observing. My vision is filled with the multitude of windows which…
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de-trend setter (or, transit photometry from the MSGC-observatory)
In which I observe an exoplanet transit, and explain how I fit a model to my observations. For a brief intro to, and some artsy pictures of, the Maryland Space Grant Observatory I’ve been starting to use, visit this previous post. What if I told you I observed a planet, orbiting a star hundreds of…
