Patrick Tamburo
@tamburo.bsky.social
Tierras postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics.
https://patricktamburo.github.io/
https://sites.harvard.edu/tierras-observatory/
https://patricktamburo.github.io/
https://sites.harvard.edu/tierras-observatory/
#NASAWebb has found the first direct evidence of potential moon formation around a giant exoplanet. The discovery is shedding light on how such systems evolve and why moons could be potentially habitable worlds: https://bit.ly/46xGodN 🔭 🧪
September 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🪐🔭 JWST is letting us learn about disks around PLANETARY-MASS OBJECTS!!!
Today is a special paper day for me: for the first time we can do chemistry in a circumplanetary disk around a planetary-mass companion! Gabriele Cugno and I used JWST to tease out the signal of CT Cha b, finding a rich carbon chemistry (7 molecules + 1 isotopolog detected)! arxiv.org/abs/2509.15209
September 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🪐🔭 JWST is letting us learn about disks around PLANETARY-MASS OBJECTS!!!
Now published in AJ! Get in here this system is crazy iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Now published in AJ! Get in here this system is crazy iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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Another MINDS JWST paper! We explore the stark transition from H2O-dominated spectra in Sun-like systems to the carbon-rich chemistry seen for low-mass objects. We don't know exactly what is driving this trend, but we explore the possibilities that may be acting in concert.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04692
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04692
August 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Another MINDS JWST paper! We explore the stark transition from H2O-dominated spectra in Sun-like systems to the carbon-rich chemistry seen for low-mass objects. We don't know exactly what is driving this trend, but we explore the possibilities that may be acting in concert.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04692
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04692
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Congratulations to Dr. Allison McCarthy, who successfully defended her PhD “The Physical Basis for L and T Dwarf Variability” on Friday! Allie is now off to Trinity College Dublin for a postdoc with the ExoAimsir group led by Prof. Johanna Vos! 🪐🔭 @alliemccarthy.bsky.social @johannavos.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Allison McCarthy, who successfully defended her PhD “The Physical Basis for L and T Dwarf Variability” on Friday! Allie is now off to Trinity College Dublin for a postdoc with the ExoAimsir group led by Prof. Johanna Vos! 🪐🔭 @alliemccarthy.bsky.social @johannavos.bsky.social
New paper on arxiv! My colleague Juliana García-Mejía analyzed data from several facilities searching for a transit of the long-period (542 d) super puff HIP 41378 f. The full transit is 19 hours long, but we detected it using a few "snapshots" from multiple observatories.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20907
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20907
June 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New paper on arxiv! My colleague Juliana García-Mejía analyzed data from several facilities searching for a transit of the long-period (542 d) super puff HIP 41378 f. The full transit is 19 hours long, but we detected it using a few "snapshots" from multiple observatories.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20907
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20907
Just found out starry (starry.readthedocs.io/en/v1.1.0/) lets you project any image you want onto a sphere, so here's the 40-degree spherical harmonic expansion of Jupiter. 🪐🔭
June 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Just found out starry (starry.readthedocs.io/en/v1.1.0/) lets you project any image you want onto a sphere, so here's the 40-degree spherical harmonic expansion of Jupiter. 🪐🔭
TOI-3884 b is a planet around an M dwarf whose transits show persistent spot crossings. We show that the star's rotational and spot-crossing variations can be modeled with a misaligned planet transiting a large polar spot (confirming last week's results from Mori et al.)
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998
June 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
TOI-3884 b is a planet around an M dwarf whose transits show persistent spot crossings. We show that the star's rotational and spot-crossing variations can be modeled with a misaligned planet transiting a large polar spot (confirming last week's results from Mori et al.)
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998
Now published in AJ! We used Tierras to measure the 23-day rotation period of a K dwarf and found that the orbit of its transiting planet is aligned with the star's spin axis. Stay tuned as we measure true obliquities for a larger sample!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
June 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Now published in AJ! We used Tierras to measure the 23-day rotation period of a K dwarf and found that the orbit of its transiting planet is aligned with the star's spin axis. Stay tuned as we measure true obliquities for a larger sample!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
The Tierras Observatory i̶s̶ ̶ was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. AST-2308043.
May 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Tierras Observatory i̶s̶ ̶ was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. AST-2308043.
May 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposted by Patrick Tamburo
Hi everyone, I'm looking to hire a postdoc this upcoming year, so if you're interested in coming to San Diego to work on low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, please apply!
aas.org/jobregister/...
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Scholar in Low-mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Exoplanets | American Astronomical Society
The Astronomy & Astrophysics Department at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar to investigate the properties of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and ex...
aas.org
December 23, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Hi everyone, I'm looking to hire a postdoc this upcoming year, so if you're interested in coming to San Diego to work on low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, please apply!
aas.org/jobregister/...
aas.org/jobregister/...
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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! 🔭🪐
Reposted by Patrick Tamburo
Check out BU PhD-student @alliemccarthy.bsky.social's paper just accepted to ApJL! JWST spectral light curves of SIMP 0136 show clear pressure-dependence, indicating three variability mechanisms: clouds, hot spots and C chemistry. @johannavos.bsky.social is the JWST PI! arxiv.org/abs/2411.16577
The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-Dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms
Isolated planetary-mass objects share their mass range with planets but do not orbit a star. They lack the necessary mass to support fusion in their cores and thermally radiate their heat from formati...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Check out BU PhD-student @alliemccarthy.bsky.social's paper just accepted to ApJL! JWST spectral light curves of SIMP 0136 show clear pressure-dependence, indicating three variability mechanisms: clouds, hot spots and C chemistry. @johannavos.bsky.social is the JWST PI! arxiv.org/abs/2411.16577
Meteor caught on Whipple Observatory sky cameras last night 🪐🔭
November 25, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Meteor caught on Whipple Observatory sky cameras last night 🪐🔭
Recently implemented Sicko Mode™ on Tierras 🔭🪐
November 21, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Recently implemented Sicko Mode™ on Tierras 🔭🪐
Comet C/2023A3 as seen by the Tierras Observatory! 🪐🔭
October 17, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Comet C/2023A3 as seen by the Tierras Observatory! 🪐🔭
opened up the telescope and almost had a heart attack
September 24, 2024 at 1:10 AM
opened up the telescope and almost had a heart attack
What's really going on vs. what you get from TESS
August 8, 2024 at 8:41 PM
What's really going on vs. what you get from TESS
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Our latest JWST (+ ALMA, VLTI-GRAVITY, IRTF-iSHELL) paper has been accepted in A&A! arxiv.org/abs/2406.10217
We investigated the short-separation DF Tau binary system. We find an unexpected disk around B with ALMA, with movement seen in ~2 months. The disks are < 3 au in radius.
We investigated the short-separation DF Tau binary system. We find an unexpected disk around B with ALMA, with movement seen in ~2 months. The disks are < 3 au in radius.
July 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Our latest JWST (+ ALMA, VLTI-GRAVITY, IRTF-iSHELL) paper has been accepted in A&A! arxiv.org/abs/2406.10217
We investigated the short-separation DF Tau binary system. We find an unexpected disk around B with ALMA, with movement seen in ~2 months. The disks are < 3 au in radius.
We investigated the short-separation DF Tau binary system. We find an unexpected disk around B with ALMA, with movement seen in ~2 months. The disks are < 3 au in radius.
My new favorite abstract
July 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM
My new favorite abstract
Very proud of @sierragrant.bsky.social, who gave an excellent invited talk at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute last week on what we're learning about planet formation with JWST!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWU...
Next in Science: James Webb Space Telescope | Part 1
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most ambitious project in the history of astronomical investigations. Within the short period of time since it b...
www.youtube.com
April 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Very proud of @sierragrant.bsky.social, who gave an excellent invited talk at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute last week on what we're learning about planet formation with JWST!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAWU...
Reposted by Patrick Tamburo
I finally celebrated job news: I’m moving stateside (well, okay, federal-district-side)! In the fall I will start a three-year position as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Science’s Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) in Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸
April 12, 2024 at 12:11 PM
I finally celebrated job news: I’m moving stateside (well, okay, federal-district-side)! In the fall I will start a three-year position as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Science’s Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) in Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸
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Wonderful article in Scientific American about water's cosmic journey, including some thoughts of my own!! 💧✨🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...
JWST Is Tracking Down the Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets
www.scientificamerican.com
February 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Wonderful article in Scientific American about water's cosmic journey, including some thoughts of my own!! 💧✨🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...
My data literally hitting me with the 🫤
November 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM
My data literally hitting me with the 🫤