#RivertheAstronomer has been working hard. She’s only a year and a half, and while she’s had some challenges, she’s a (starship) trooper. She’s doing her part. Are you?

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#AAS245 is at the Gaylord National Convention center this year, and the big atrium makes me think about what a futuristic Mars colony could look like, sans the blue sky. Lots of space, plants, and an open-air feeling.

River and I were thrilled to share our circumbinary planet poster with all of you at #AAS245. Come and say hi if you see us!

Presenting my poster on our two new circumbinary exoplanet candidates at #aas245. Come say hi!

Service dog #RivertheAstronomer is very intent on watching the planery talks at #AAS245. Come say hi if you see us!

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It's a scary world right now, so here is a fun plot I made. This is the star field around one of my research targets from #TESS. Here, you can see stars from the Gaia survey over-plotted on the TESS field. This is a great way to see the range of precision in modern #telescopes. (1/2)

What do circumbinary planet transits look like?

As the planet crosses each star, it creates a dip in the light curve (brightness of the system plotted versus time). These dips (transits) have different depths and lengths which are dependent on many different factors.

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Here we can see the joy of modern science. The posters of yesteryear have been replaced with iPosters. Now grad students and researchers everywhere can deal with a poor UI and not nearly enough formatting options. All modern creations come with their own issues, but at least we can use videos now.

The Pleiades cluster in Taurus is known as a bright, young star cluster, but did you know that up to 25% of the cluster’s population are brown dwarfs? These are objects with insufficient mass to be a star but are far more massive than planets.

#Astronomy Fact of the Day