Robin Wordsworth
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Robin Wordsworth
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Physicist/planetary scientist/astrobiologist based at Harvard. Soccer dad in training. Social media native since 2024.
If you could hear in the infrared, what would CO2 sound like? We calculated this recently for a Gen Ed course, and the result is a little eerie.

Results were generated by mapping IR frequency in inverse cm to sound frequency in Hz.
July 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sub-Neptunes shrink and oxidize as they cross the radius valley and become rocky planets, in a new paper led by Collin Cherubim

arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05055
#astronomy #science
April 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Our new paper led by Jake Seeley on clouds and convection in H2-dominated atmospheres is out! Technical conclusion: Things get weird when nitrogen is no longer the background gas 🧪🔭

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06648
January 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM