Suzanne Aigrain
@airbornegrain.bsky.social
Discovering and understanding planets and their host stars. Watch my TEDx talk: https://t.ly/sk2wB
...But what we care about here is correcting the radial velocity signatures of active regions to improve sensitivity to exoplanets, and for that it works surprisingly well. Check out @astroklein.bsky.social's thread for more details
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
...But what we care about here is correcting the radial velocity signatures of active regions to improve sensitivity to exoplanets, and for that it works surprisingly well. Check out @astroklein.bsky.social's thread for more details
...Indeed, we only recover a very low-resolution representation of the stellar surface, though it's interesting that this is even possible for such a slowly spinning star...
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
...Indeed, we only recover a very low-resolution representation of the stellar surface, though it's interesting that this is even possible for such a slowly spinning star...
signed and shared!
March 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
signed and shared!
I'll be giving a short interview to @lbc.co.uk at 9.45pm UK time tonight to talk about this system and why it's interesting!
January 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'll be giving a short interview to @lbc.co.uk at 9.45pm UK time tonight to talk about this system and why it's interesting!
It's a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a bright, nearby star. That makes a really exciting step on the way to finding Earth analogs, and prime candidate for further, detailed characterisation. But it's almost certainly too massive to host life.
January 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a bright, nearby star. That makes a really exciting step on the way to finding Earth analogs, and prime candidate for further, detailed characterisation. But it's almost certainly too massive to host life.
I kind of agree, though even candidate A wouldn't get a postdoc-type job without doing a PhD first... So a part of the problem may be the "rite of passage" role of the PhD in research careers, and the tension between that and the desire to broaden access to such careers.
January 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I kind of agree, though even candidate A wouldn't get a postdoc-type job without doing a PhD first... So a part of the problem may be the "rite of passage" role of the PhD in research careers, and the tension between that and the desire to broaden access to such careers.