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/
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...
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
And here's the 40-degree spherical harmonic expansion of my cat 😭😭😭
June 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
And here's the 40-degree spherical harmonic expansion of my cat 😭😭😭
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. 🪐🔭
We simultaneously modeled several transit observations, finding that the rotational light curve AND the changes in the transit shapes can be described by a planet transiting a large polar spot.
June 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We simultaneously modeled several transit observations, finding that the rotational light curve AND the changes in the transit shapes can be described by a planet transiting a large polar spot.
We used 124 nights from the Tierras Observatory (sites.harvard.edu/tierras-obse...) to measure the star's rotation period, which is 11 days.
June 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We used 124 nights from the Tierras Observatory (sites.harvard.edu/tierras-obse...) to measure the star's rotation period, which is 11 days.
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...
May 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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
My new favorite abstract
July 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM
My new favorite abstract
My data literally hitting me with the 🫤
November 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM
My data literally hitting me with the 🫤
Here's a version of the same plot with a linear y-axis, emphasizing how Kepler/K2 discoveries still dominate the number of confirmed exoplanets.
September 7, 2023 at 5:40 PM
Here's a version of the same plot with a linear y-axis, emphasizing how Kepler/K2 discoveries still dominate the number of confirmed exoplanets.
It's been a couple of years since I've updated this plot, which ranks all facilities that are credited with an exoplanet discovery on the NASA Exoplanet Archive! Since, then, TESS has moved into 3rd all-time (or 2nd, depending on how you want to count Kepler/K2). 🔭
September 7, 2023 at 5:38 PM
It's been a couple of years since I've updated this plot, which ranks all facilities that are credited with an exoplanet discovery on the NASA Exoplanet Archive! Since, then, TESS has moved into 3rd all-time (or 2nd, depending on how you want to count Kepler/K2). 🔭
Happy to announce that I will no longer be competing for telescope time
August 12, 2023 at 11:32 AM
Happy to announce that I will no longer be competing for telescope time
Accidentally woke up in the sequel to Dublin
August 3, 2023 at 9:27 AM
Accidentally woke up in the sequel to Dublin
