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Suzanne Aigrain
@airbornegrain.bsky.social
Discovering and understanding planets and their host stars. Watch my TEDx talk: t.ly/sk2wB
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Cool stuff!
My first PhD paper is on arxiv today! Rotating planets are slightly wider at their equator compared to the poles. Saturn in our Solar System (below, minus the rings), is about 10% oblate! Can we detect this shape difference in transits from JWST? (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2410.03449
A General, Differentiable Transit Model for Ellipsoidal Occulters: Derivation, Application, and Forecast of Planetary Oblateness and Obliquity Constraints with JWST
Increasingly precise space-based photometry uncovers higher-order effects in transits, eclipses and phase curves which can be used to characterize exoplanets in novel ways. The subtle signature induce...
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Suzanne Aigrain
@airbornegrain.bsky.social
Discovering and understanding planets and their host stars. Watch my TEDx talk: t.ly/sk2wB
186 followers101 following16 posts