Great news and big changes for our team in Spring 2019! Elena Manjavacas has accepted an offer and moved to Hawaii to start her new position as Support Astronomer at the Keck Observatory! Aidan Gibbs was admitted to several top astronomy grad programs. Ben Rackham was awarded with the 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship, which…
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Extrasolar Storms: Belts, Spots, and Waves in Brown Dwarfs
Our new paper came out today in Science, presenting evidence for bands, zones, spots, and waves in brown dwarfs and a model that explains well several until-now mysterious changes in the brightnesses of brown dwarfs. Podcast: Learn more about our project from the Science Magazine’s podcast! I am excited about our results because they open a new…
The Mystery of Sedona’s Red Rocks
Just got back from majestic Sedona, Arizona, where my family and I spent Thanksgiving. Sedona is a charming and crazy amalgam of spectacular geology, amazing autumn foliage, exciting restaurants, and an eclectic mix of new age shops and centers. Believers of aura photos, energy vortices, and natural healing flock from all over the country to…
On to A New Year and New Exoplanets!
The 2014 year has brought much excitement in the field of extrasolar planets and 2015 is set to be at least as exciting as the past year: new powerful adaptive optics systems are searching the northern and southern skies for new exoplanets and Kepler2 should start bringing a large number of new planet candidates! Just…
Exoplanets in the UA Daily Wildcat
The University of Arizona’s Daily Wildcat has published a nice article by Zane Johnson on our work on rotational mapping of brown dwarfs and exoplanets. It was fun talking to Zane. Good luck with the new science desk at the Wildcat!