Tom Bickle (@astrobicks)

Ah yes, my favourite day to check arxiv has arrived again

01.04.2025 15:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hmm... 2nd quintile in my first ever JWST proposal as PI. Not sure whether to be annoyed or pleased lol.

11.03.2025 15:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Discovery of the Remarkably Red L/T Transition Object VHS J183135.58-551355.9 We present the discovery of VHS J183135.58‑551355.9 (hereafter VHS J1831‑5513), an L/T transition dwarf identified as a result of its unusually red near-infrared colors (J ‑ K <SUB>S</SUB> = 3.633 ± 0...

Recently my very first 1st-author paper was published! (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AJ.....)

It's about the discovery of a suuuuuuper red free-floating L/T transition dwarf and likely member of the ~20-25 Myr old Beta Pictoris young moving group. It's ~1100 K and ~7 MJup.

08.11.2024 00:56 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I guess my transition to this site is a good time to let everyone some things about me. I'm a citizen scientist who loved working on space-related projects so much that I decided to pursue a degree in Astronomy! I'm currently in my final year of undergrad.

08.11.2024 00:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm here now!

08.11.2024 00:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks like accidental Batman to me

17.10.2023 18:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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