Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD
@exobeatriz.bsky.social
Exoplanet scientist 🪐 Postdoc at the APEx Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy✨️
Intersectional feminist 🌹she/her
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Intersectional feminist 🌹she/her
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To my new followers:
Hello! I'm Beatriz, an exoplanet scientist 🪐 I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the APEx department in the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ✨️
I am a modeller and spend most of my days modelling all kinds of exoplanets (and brown dwarfs)
I love music and coffee ☀️
Hello! I'm Beatriz, an exoplanet scientist 🪐 I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the APEx department in the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ✨️
I am a modeller and spend most of my days modelling all kinds of exoplanets (and brown dwarfs)
I love music and coffee ☀️
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Happy to share the first paper from the SPACE Program, led by my student Angelique Kahle! she observed a hot little sub-Neptune, HD 86226c (Rp = 2.3 Re; equilibrium temp = 1300 K). arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13439
The spectrum is *really* flat ! here's the amplitude compared to other gaseous planets.
The spectrum is *really* flat ! here's the amplitude compared to other gaseous planets.
July 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Happy to share the first paper from the SPACE Program, led by my student Angelique Kahle! she observed a hot little sub-Neptune, HD 86226c (Rp = 2.3 Re; equilibrium temp = 1300 K). arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13439
The spectrum is *really* flat ! here's the amplitude compared to other gaseous planets.
The spectrum is *really* flat ! here's the amplitude compared to other gaseous planets.
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A companion star …. Inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere…. You think you know some stuff about the Universe but there’s always more surprises! 🙃🔭✨
From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: Astronomers using
Gemini North found a hidden companion star orbiting inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere, the first close-in companion ever seen around a supergiant star.
🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/...
📷GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA #astronomy
Gemini North found a hidden companion star orbiting inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere, the first close-in companion ever seen around a supergiant star.
🔗 noirlab.edu/public/news/...
📷GeminiObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA #astronomy
Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse - Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i reveals never-before-seen companion to Betelgeuse, solving millennia-old mystery
Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National Science Foundation-funded ‘Alopeke instrument on Gemini North, one half of ...
noirlab.edu
July 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A companion star …. Inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere…. You think you know some stuff about the Universe but there’s always more surprises! 🙃🔭✨
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My paper with Tom Evans-Soma and Nathan Mayne on magnetic drag models is now accepted and up on the arXiv. For a quick summary, look at the PDF of my Exoclimes poster that I shared last week.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.08511
www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.08511
Geometric Considerations in Hot Jupiter Magnetic Drag Models
Magnetic fields are expected to impact the atmospheric dynamics of hot and ultra-hot Jupiters due to their increased ionization fractions, compared to that of cooler exoplanets, but our ability to mod...
www.arxiv.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My paper with Tom Evans-Soma and Nathan Mayne on magnetic drag models is now accepted and up on the arXiv. For a quick summary, look at the PDF of my Exoclimes poster that I shared last week.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.08511
www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.08511
Excited to be at Exoclimes (@exoclimes.bsky.social) this week! Come find me at poster 139 🪐
I'm building a retrieval framework to help make sense of variability in brown dwarfs and directly imaged planets.
Come say hi, and we can nerd out about variable atmospheres 😊
I'm building a retrieval framework to help make sense of variability in brown dwarfs and directly imaged planets.
Come say hi, and we can nerd out about variable atmospheres 😊
July 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Excited to be at Exoclimes (@exoclimes.bsky.social) this week! Come find me at poster 139 🪐
I'm building a retrieval framework to help make sense of variability in brown dwarfs and directly imaged planets.
Come say hi, and we can nerd out about variable atmospheres 😊
I'm building a retrieval framework to help make sense of variability in brown dwarfs and directly imaged planets.
Come say hi, and we can nerd out about variable atmospheres 😊
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Since many people can't make it to Exoclimes, here is my poster looking at the geometry of magnetic drag models in hot Jupiter atmospheres. There are many caveats about the applicability of these models, but they're a first step in including dayside coupling.
www.duncanchristie.net/s/exoclimes_...
www.duncanchristie.net/s/exoclimes_...
July 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Since many people can't make it to Exoclimes, here is my poster looking at the geometry of magnetic drag models in hot Jupiter atmospheres. There are many caveats about the applicability of these models, but they're a first step in including dayside coupling.
www.duncanchristie.net/s/exoclimes_...
www.duncanchristie.net/s/exoclimes_...
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As I sit at Exoclimes listening to a Zoom talk from the UK, I thought I'd share this again. When choosing where to host international meetings, we need to consider the ability of attendees to get visas in a timely manner.
Visitor visa processing times for Canada, by country where you are applying from:
Germany/Austria: 315d
UK: 343d
Citizens of these countries are visa-exempt, but many researchers who aren't visa-exempt live there. As a Canadian about to head to Canada for a conference, I'm embarrassed.
Germany/Austria: 315d
UK: 343d
Citizens of these countries are visa-exempt, but many researchers who aren't visa-exempt live there. As a Canadian about to head to Canada for a conference, I'm embarrassed.
July 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
As I sit at Exoclimes listening to a Zoom talk from the UK, I thought I'd share this again. When choosing where to host international meetings, we need to consider the ability of attendees to get visas in a timely manner.
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Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
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It's the biggest question there is: are we alone in the Universe? Having the tech to probe the chemical composition of distant planets is 🥳, but as this is just a 3σ result (as likely to be noise as it is likely that today is your birthday) take it with a pinch of salt.👇More on the heated debate👇 🔭🧪
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It's the biggest question there is: are we alone in the Universe? Having the tech to probe the chemical composition of distant planets is 🥳, but as this is just a 3σ result (as likely to be noise as it is likely that today is your birthday) take it with a pinch of salt.👇More on the heated debate👇 🔭🧪
Reposted by Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
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At some point we need to have a discussion about the ethics of participation in press releases as scientists. From today’s K2-18b saga, Nikku Madhusudhan in the press release says ‘The signal came through loud and clear’ (1/n)
April 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
At some point we need to have a discussion about the ethics of participation in press releases as scientists. From today’s K2-18b saga, Nikku Madhusudhan in the press release says ‘The signal came through loud and clear’ (1/n)
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My new paper with Feng Ding and Jun Yang has been accepted at ApJ: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05233.
In this study, we find that lower-tropospheric radiative heating is necessary but not independently sufficient to form the NAIV. Instead, the dynamic heating induced by large-scale subsidence is essential.
In this study, we find that lower-tropospheric radiative heating is necessary but not independently sufficient to form the NAIV. Instead, the dynamic heating induced by large-scale subsidence is essential.
Formation of Near-surface Atmospheric Inversion and Surface Inversion in Hothouse Climates
A hothouse climate may develop throughout Earth's history and its warming future and on potentially habitable exoplanets near the inner edge of the habitable zone. Previous studies suggested that near...
arxiv.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
My new paper with Feng Ding and Jun Yang has been accepted at ApJ: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05233.
In this study, we find that lower-tropospheric radiative heating is necessary but not independently sufficient to form the NAIV. Instead, the dynamic heating induced by large-scale subsidence is essential.
In this study, we find that lower-tropospheric radiative heating is necessary but not independently sufficient to form the NAIV. Instead, the dynamic heating induced by large-scale subsidence is essential.
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The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
If you or someone you know are interested in the postdoc or PhD positions at the IWF (OEAW) in Graz, in the exoplanets weather and climate group, remember I am available to talk about my experience 🚩
February 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you or someone you know are interested in the postdoc or PhD positions at the IWF (OEAW) in Graz, in the exoplanets weather and climate group, remember I am available to talk about my experience 🚩
What do people use to archive their twitter accounts? I want to finally do this and delete my account for good.
February 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What do people use to archive their twitter accounts? I want to finally do this and delete my account for good.
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New JWST science by Nick Tusay of Penn State!
Thanks @astrolisa.bsky.social for the very good writeup!
www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
Thanks @astrolisa.bsky.social for the very good writeup!
www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
A crumbling exoplanet spills its guts
Astronomers have determined the internal composition of a distant, disintegrating planet for the first time.
www.sciencenews.org
January 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New JWST science by Nick Tusay of Penn State!
Thanks @astrolisa.bsky.social for the very good writeup!
www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
Thanks @astrolisa.bsky.social for the very good writeup!
www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
Exoplanet memes for all the family 🔭🪐🧪👩🔬
Welcome to our BlueSky account! You can also follow us on Twitter (@exoMEMEevent) and Instagram (@exomemeevent) and if you want to submit memes for our next exhibition, you can do so via our website: massiveexoplanetmemeexhibition.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Exoplanet memes for all the family 🔭🪐🧪👩🔬
After years of sweat and tears, my PhD baby is out of the oven. I currently do not have the energy to write a thread about it. In summary: atmospheric modelling with self-consistent microphysical cloud formation is hard. Don't ignore clouds, model them properly. 🪐🔭👩🔬🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05521
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05521
The $\texttt{MSG}$ model for cloudy substellar atmospheres: A grid of self-consistent substellar atmosphere models with microphysical cloud formation
State-of-the-art JWST observations are unveiling unprecedented views into the atmospheres of substellar objects in the infrared, further highlighting the importance of clouds. Current forward models s...
arxiv.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
After years of sweat and tears, my PhD baby is out of the oven. I currently do not have the energy to write a thread about it. In summary: atmospheric modelling with self-consistent microphysical cloud formation is hard. Don't ignore clouds, model them properly. 🪐🔭👩🔬🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05521
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05521
After years of waiting for another discovery of these bad boys (because I spent way too much time modelling them), finally another one has been found with TESS!!!!
Hon, Rappaport et al. on “A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails Around a Bright Star” with an orbital period of 1.27 days, this is a fascinating fourth example of this type of object. The eclipses vary from one orbit to another. 🔭🪐 #astrodon
January 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
After years of waiting for another discovery of these bad boys (because I spent way too much time modelling them), finally another one has been found with TESS!!!!
REMINDER: The deadline for applying for the summer internships at the MPIA is next Wednesday, the 15th of Jan! Opportunities open for bachelor and masters students from all over the world! 🔭🧪👩🔬🪐⭐
The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Summer Internships are open for applications! This is an opportunity for bachelor and masters students 🤩 If you are interested in doing some exoplanets research, contact me!
More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
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More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
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Summer internships
www.mpia.de
January 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
REMINDER: The deadline for applying for the summer internships at the MPIA is next Wednesday, the 15th of Jan! Opportunities open for bachelor and masters students from all over the world! 🔭🧪👩🔬🪐⭐
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🚨🔔 Job alert 🔔 🚨
ERC positions in our E-BEANS team @tcddublin.bsky.social ☘️ on exoplanetary systems (disks/long period planets/volatile delivery), starting Sep ‘25! ☄️🪐💿 🔭
3-yr Fellow: tinyurl.com/5n77ucnk
4-yr PhD: tinyurl.com/bdb3xyp3
Deadline Jan 6th ⏰
Please spread the word!
ERC positions in our E-BEANS team @tcddublin.bsky.social ☘️ on exoplanetary systems (disks/long period planets/volatile delivery), starting Sep ‘25! ☄️🪐💿 🔭
3-yr Fellow: tinyurl.com/5n77ucnk
4-yr PhD: tinyurl.com/bdb3xyp3
Deadline Jan 6th ⏰
Please spread the word!
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad…
December 3, 2024 at 10:58 AM
🚨🔔 Job alert 🔔 🚨
ERC positions in our E-BEANS team @tcddublin.bsky.social ☘️ on exoplanetary systems (disks/long period planets/volatile delivery), starting Sep ‘25! ☄️🪐💿 🔭
3-yr Fellow: tinyurl.com/5n77ucnk
4-yr PhD: tinyurl.com/bdb3xyp3
Deadline Jan 6th ⏰
Please spread the word!
ERC positions in our E-BEANS team @tcddublin.bsky.social ☘️ on exoplanetary systems (disks/long period planets/volatile delivery), starting Sep ‘25! ☄️🪐💿 🔭
3-yr Fellow: tinyurl.com/5n77ucnk
4-yr PhD: tinyurl.com/bdb3xyp3
Deadline Jan 6th ⏰
Please spread the word!
The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Summer Internships are open for applications! This is an opportunity for bachelor and masters students 🤩 If you are interested in doing some exoplanets research, contact me!
More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
🔭🪐⭐🧪👩🔬
More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
🔭🪐⭐🧪👩🔬
Summer internships
www.mpia.de
December 5, 2024 at 11:10 AM
The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Summer Internships are open for applications! This is an opportunity for bachelor and masters students 🤩 If you are interested in doing some exoplanets research, contact me!
More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
🔭🪐⭐🧪👩🔬
More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
🔭🪐⭐🧪👩🔬
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🚨🚨 I'm hiring!!! 🚨🚨
Postdoc and PhD positions available to join my ERC project Exo-PEA at @tcddublin.bsky.social. The project aims to understand weather in giant extrasolar worlds ☁️⚡🪐
📆 Deadline: Jan 6th
Postdoc ad: tinyurl.com/2ufcwvxf
PhD ad: tinyurl.com/5amcea6p
Please share widely! 🔭🪐
Postdoc and PhD positions available to join my ERC project Exo-PEA at @tcddublin.bsky.social. The project aims to understand weather in giant extrasolar worlds ☁️⚡🪐
📆 Deadline: Jan 6th
Postdoc ad: tinyurl.com/2ufcwvxf
PhD ad: tinyurl.com/5amcea6p
Please share widely! 🔭🪐
tinyurl.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:08 AM
🚨🚨 I'm hiring!!! 🚨🚨
Postdoc and PhD positions available to join my ERC project Exo-PEA at @tcddublin.bsky.social. The project aims to understand weather in giant extrasolar worlds ☁️⚡🪐
📆 Deadline: Jan 6th
Postdoc ad: tinyurl.com/2ufcwvxf
PhD ad: tinyurl.com/5amcea6p
Please share widely! 🔭🪐
Postdoc and PhD positions available to join my ERC project Exo-PEA at @tcddublin.bsky.social. The project aims to understand weather in giant extrasolar worlds ☁️⚡🪐
📆 Deadline: Jan 6th
Postdoc ad: tinyurl.com/2ufcwvxf
PhD ad: tinyurl.com/5amcea6p
Please share widely! 🔭🪐
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Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
People who use wavenumber instead of wavelength: who hurt you?
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November 28, 2024 at 6:59 PM
People who use wavenumber instead of wavelength: who hurt you?
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