Exoplanetas debajo de mi piel

Posted on Sat 05 February 2022 in astroaventuras • Tagged with exoplanets, astroaventuras

Hace algunos años mentras todavía hacia mi doctorado en Turín, no recuerdo el día ni la hora, pero seguro estaba bebiendo Barbera. Tuve la idea de inmortalizar exoplanetas en un tatuaje, teniendo como lienzo a mi morena piel.

Después de pensarlo por años y tener varias ideas de diseños, lugares …


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The young HD 73583 (TOI-560) planetary system

Posted on Fri 22 October 2021 in exoplanets • Tagged with exoplanets, projects

Two 10-M⊕ mini-Neptunes transiting a young, bright, and active K dwarf

Today in ArXiv, new mass measurements for two transiting young mini-Neptunes orbiting HD 73583 (TOI-560)! If you want to know more about this exciting system with weird properties characteristics of such a young system, give a look at the …


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Unveiling the Nature of Faraway Worlds

Posted on Wed 02 October 2019 in astroaventuras • Tagged with exoplanets, astroaventuras

Since the dawn of time, humankind has been amazed by the mystery of the night. A countless number of stars illuminated the clear nights of all the civilisations that populated our World.

This immutable beauty was complemented by five dancing stars in the sky. Ancient Greeks called those moving stars …


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K2-100b: a young, highly irradiated, and low density transiting hot Neptune

Posted on Fri 13 September 2019 in exoplanets • Tagged with exoplanets, projects

or, a young transiting hot Neptune with a likely evaporating atmosphere

This is the story of the Radial Velocity (RV) confirmation of K2-100b, the first mass measurement of a transiting planet in a young open cluster. This is also my first first-author paper working at Oxford Astrophysics, just accepted for …


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