Suzanne Aigrain
@airbornegrain.bsky.social
Discovering and understanding planets and their host stars. Watch my TEDx talk: https://t.ly/sk2wB
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We are hiring a new Assistant Professor in Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin!! ☘
Job ad here: aas.org/jobregister/...
Deadline: Jan 02 2026
Please share widely! 🪐🔭
Job ad here: aas.org/jobregister/...
Deadline: Jan 02 2026
Please share widely! 🪐🔭
Assistant Professor in Astrophysics | American Astronomical Society
The School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin invites applications for a position at the level of Assistant Professor in the field of observational or theoretical astrophysics. We seek motivated ind...
aas.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We are hiring a new Assistant Professor in Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin!! ☘
Job ad here: aas.org/jobregister/...
Deadline: Jan 02 2026
Please share widely! 🪐🔭
Job ad here: aas.org/jobregister/...
Deadline: Jan 02 2026
Please share widely! 🪐🔭
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Cambridge! We’re bringing a Universe of Music to you next Thursday.
This show features shells, black holes, music, planets and more - do come if you can!
www.junction.co.uk/events/linto...
This show features shells, black holes, music, planets and more - do come if you can!
www.junction.co.uk/events/linto...
Lintott & Pretty's Universe Of Music | Cambridge Junction
Book tickets for Lintott & Pretty's Universe Of Music at J3 at Cambridge Junction. What’s the connection between astronomy and jazz? From William Herschel (discoverer of Uranus and professional musici...
www.junction.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Cambridge! We’re bringing a Universe of Music to you next Thursday.
This show features shells, black holes, music, planets and more - do come if you can!
www.junction.co.uk/events/linto...
This show features shells, black holes, music, planets and more - do come if you can!
www.junction.co.uk/events/linto...
Reposted by Suzanne Aigrain
Reposted by Suzanne Aigrain
Hey London folks: come join me for this next week! It’s going to be a great night! wegottickets.com/event/676292
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Hey London folks: come join me for this next week! It’s going to be a great night! wegottickets.com/event/676292
Our group's latest paper, led by @astroklein.bsky.social, applies Doppler Imaging (DI) to the Sun. Anyone who knows about DI will scream: "you can't do that! DI is for rapidly rotating stars!"...
Very excited to share that my new paper has been accepted for publication in MNRAS!
We are applying Doppler Imaging to model the activity signals from the HARPS-N Sun-as-a-star spectra! We show that injected planets can be retrieved with great accuracy!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA... 🔭🪐🧪
We are applying Doppler Imaging to model the activity signals from the HARPS-N Sun-as-a-star spectra! We show that injected planets can be retrieved with great accuracy!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA... 🔭🪐🧪
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Our group's latest paper, led by @astroklein.bsky.social, applies Doppler Imaging (DI) to the Sun. Anyone who knows about DI will scream: "you can't do that! DI is for rapidly rotating stars!"...
Reposted by Suzanne Aigrain
Very excited to share that my new paper has been accepted for publication in MNRAS!
We are applying Doppler Imaging to model the activity signals from the HARPS-N Sun-as-a-star spectra! We show that injected planets can be retrieved with great accuracy!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA... 🔭🪐🧪
We are applying Doppler Imaging to model the activity signals from the HARPS-N Sun-as-a-star spectra! We show that injected planets can be retrieved with great accuracy!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA... 🔭🪐🧪
August 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Very excited to share that my new paper has been accepted for publication in MNRAS!
We are applying Doppler Imaging to model the activity signals from the HARPS-N Sun-as-a-star spectra! We show that injected planets can be retrieved with great accuracy!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA... 🔭🪐🧪
We are applying Doppler Imaging to model the activity signals from the HARPS-N Sun-as-a-star spectra! We show that injected planets can be retrieved with great accuracy!
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA... 🔭🪐🧪
Stunning image!
A very hungry planet! 🪐
What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
August 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Stunning image!
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It’s paper day 🎉!! If you are interested in seeing how supergranulation changes over a solar cycle in RVs give it a read! arxiv.org/abs/2506.23693
Measuring the Suns radial velocity variability due to supergranulation over a magnetic cycle
In recent years supergranulation has emerged as one of the biggest challenges for the detection of Earth-twins in radial velocity planet searches. We used eight years of Sun-as-a-star radial velocity ...
arxiv.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It’s paper day 🎉!! If you are interested in seeing how supergranulation changes over a solar cycle in RVs give it a read! arxiv.org/abs/2506.23693
Reposted by Suzanne Aigrain
Many Oxoplanets members are at #EPRV6! Chat to them about the awesome work they have been doing!
Excited to be at #eprv6 this week! If you are here and want to talk about supergranulation come find me!
July 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Many Oxoplanets members are at #EPRV6! Chat to them about the awesome work they have been doing!
Reposted by Suzanne Aigrain
Had a great time learning all about PLATO and the PLATO-ESP conference in Marseille this week!
June 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Had a great time learning all about PLATO and the PLATO-ESP conference in Marseille this week!
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The countdown is on to our National Astronomy Meeting this summer!
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The countdown is on to our National Astronomy Meeting this summer!
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
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I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪
Are there Spectral Features in the MIRI/LRS Transmission Spectrum of K2-18b?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15916
Jake Taylor.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15916
Jake Taylor.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15916
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
April 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪
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Sign the petition: chng.it/wyb9ppnsKQ 🧪🔭
March 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sign the petition: chng.it/wyb9ppnsKQ 🧪🔭
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Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes
I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
March 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Oh wow, this is *such* a cool concept - a 'game' procedurally generated from Wikipedia, in which you can literally traverse all of human knowledge and walk down rabbit holes
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What the fuck? @ox.ac.uk @oxfordphysics.bsky.social is heavily involved with Rubin-LSST, this is not okay, we are extremely supportive and proud of our LGBT+ colleagues here in Oxford.
I'm not a member, but I have just heard that the powers that be have closed all the EDI and LGBTQ channels on the Rubin/LSST Slack workspace.
February 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
What the fuck? @ox.ac.uk @oxfordphysics.bsky.social is heavily involved with Rubin-LSST, this is not okay, we are extremely supportive and proud of our LGBT+ colleagues here in Oxford.
Lovely to see this planet, first discovered in HARPS data a few years ago by my current colleague and team member Michael Cretignier, now confirmed by an international team led by @asmasca.bsky.social using VLT/ESPRESSO!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01...
Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University
www.ox.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Lovely to see this planet, first discovered in HARPS data a few years ago by my current colleague and team member Michael Cretignier, now confirmed by an international team led by @asmasca.bsky.social using VLT/ESPRESSO!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01...
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The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting input on what to do with 2200 hours on the highest contrast coronagraph ever flown! There is no open-time program, so fill out this survey on the technology demonstration and science that you think would be most interesting! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Roman Coronagraph Community Interest Survey
Context: The Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (scheduled to launch no later than May 2027) will enable an in-space technology demonstration of a high-contrast coron...
docs.google.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Roman Coronagraph team is soliciting input on what to do with 2200 hours on the highest contrast coronagraph ever flown! There is no open-time program, so fill out this survey on the technology demonstration and science that you think would be most interesting! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025.
FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
#WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
#WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
Apply now to the innovative fund instigated by leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Institute of Physics to encourage greater diversity in physics.
www.iop.org
December 13, 2024 at 12:11 AM
The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025.
FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
#WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
#WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
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Applications are open for MPIA summer internships! this is a fully funded opportunity, open to bachelor's and master's students anywhere in the world: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
Summer internships
www.mpia.de
December 9, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Applications are open for MPIA summer internships! this is a fully funded opportunity, open to bachelor's and master's students anywhere in the world: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...
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Congratulations to Harrison! His paper concerning the atmospheres on lava planets has been accepted and published online today!
Excited to share that our paper on atmospheres on lava planets has been accepted in JGR: Planets!
You can find it on arXiv here:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.19137
You can find it on arXiv here:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.19137
December 2, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Congratulations to Harrison! His paper concerning the atmospheres on lava planets has been accepted and published online today!
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Congratulations to DPhil student Haochuan Yu (supervised by @airbornegrain.bsky.social) for the publication of his paper "A possible misaligned orbit for the young planet AU Mic c"! You can read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16958
A possible misaligned orbit for the young planet AU Mic c
The AU Microscopii planetary system is only 24 Myr old, and its geometry may provide clues about the early dynamical history of planetary systems. Here, we present the first measurement of the Rossite...
arxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Congratulations to DPhil student Haochuan Yu (supervised by @airbornegrain.bsky.social) for the publication of his paper "A possible misaligned orbit for the young planet AU Mic c"! You can read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16958
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. random bits of lego
2. todo list on tissue paper, written at 3am to banish insomnia (didn't work), makes no sense at all.
3. bike lights
4. a novel
5. snack pilfered from work for my kids
1. random bits of lego
2. todo list on tissue paper, written at 3am to banish insomnia (didn't work), makes no sense at all.
3. bike lights
4. a novel
5. snack pilfered from work for my kids
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1: encrypted flash drive with My Docs backed up
2: 2 days worth of meds
3: tissues
4: reading glasses (I'm allergic to retinox)
5: 2 spare K95 masks
1: encrypted flash drive with My Docs backed up
2: 2 days worth of meds
3: tissues
4: reading glasses (I'm allergic to retinox)
5: 2 spare K95 masks
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. Prescription stimulant
2. Bullet journal that hasn’t been updated for weeks to months
3. Precision calipers
4. Snacks
5. Oh THERE’S that receipt that I put in a “safe” place weeks to months ago!
1. Prescription stimulant
2. Bullet journal that hasn’t been updated for weeks to months
3. Precision calipers
4. Snacks
5. Oh THERE’S that receipt that I put in a “safe” place weeks to months ago!
November 14, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. random bits of lego
2. todo list on tissue paper, written at 3am to banish insomnia (didn't work), makes no sense at all.
3. bike lights
4. a novel
5. snack pilfered from work for my kids
1. random bits of lego
2. todo list on tissue paper, written at 3am to banish insomnia (didn't work), makes no sense at all.
3. bike lights
4. a novel
5. snack pilfered from work for my kids
It's paper day! Haochuan Yu, an outstanding PhD student working with me, has developed a new Gaussian process model for activity induced variations in time-series of stellar line profiles, that accounts for both the time- and velocity-domain correlations: arxiv.org/abs/2410.12698
A Gaussian process model for stellar activity in 2-D line profile time-series
Stellar active regions like spots and faculae can distort the shapes of spectral lines, inducing variations in the radial velocities that are often orders of magnitude larger than the signals from Ear...
arxiv.org
October 17, 2024 at 9:42 AM
It's paper day! Haochuan Yu, an outstanding PhD student working with me, has developed a new Gaussian process model for activity induced variations in time-series of stellar line profiles, that accounts for both the time- and velocity-domain correlations: arxiv.org/abs/2410.12698
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Saddened beyond belief by the sudden passing of our boss Ian Shipsey. Ian was remarkable, in his science & as a passionate unselfish force for good, who made a huge contribution to Oxford Physics, the upcoming Vera Rubin & much else 🧪 🛰️ 🔭
www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/...
www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/...
Professor Ian Shipsey FRS
We are deeply saddened to convey the news of the death of Ian Shipsey – distinguished particle physicist, esteemed head of department, passionate champion of his field, and our colleague who will be g...
www.mpls.ox.ac.uk
October 8, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Saddened beyond belief by the sudden passing of our boss Ian Shipsey. Ian was remarkable, in his science & as a passionate unselfish force for good, who made a huge contribution to Oxford Physics, the upcoming Vera Rubin & much else 🧪 🛰️ 🔭
www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/...
www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/...
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Big (but not heavy) results from the Young Worlds Lab. JWST transmission spectrum of the 17-myr planet HIP67522b reveals it's only 10-15 Earth masses despite being similar in radius to Jupiter. This gives it a density lower than any other known planet.
more below
arxiv.org/abs/2409.16355
🧪🔭🪐⚛️
more below
arxiv.org/abs/2409.16355
🧪🔭🪐⚛️
The Featherweight Giant: Unraveling the Atmosphere of a 17 Myr...
The characterization of young planets (< 300 Myr) is pivotal for understanding planet formation and evolution. We present the 3-5$μ$m transmission spectrum of the 17 Myr, Jupiter-size ($R$...
arxiv.org
September 26, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Big (but not heavy) results from the Young Worlds Lab. JWST transmission spectrum of the 17-myr planet HIP67522b reveals it's only 10-15 Earth masses despite being similar in radius to Jupiter. This gives it a density lower than any other known planet.
more below
arxiv.org/abs/2409.16355
🧪🔭🪐⚛️
more below
arxiv.org/abs/2409.16355
🧪🔭🪐⚛️