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Julien Girard

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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Exoplanet Imaging alert. AF Lep b! Remarkable detection of a 3 Jupiter-mass exoplanet with JWST/NIRCam at 1.8 lambda/D (0.32") for a Lyot coronagraph that was designed to operate at 6 lambda/D (inner-working angle). The data processed by William Balmer, amazing job!
arxiv.org/abs/2406.09528

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If you are attending hashtag#SPIEAstro in Yokohama, I'll be presenting my poster on "Optimizing JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy: performance and science operations"
Wednesday June 19 (all day in Room G5, North - 1F)
Paper 13095-101
spie.org/astronomical...

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Too many cool talks, including lightening/flash talks at #CHEXO11 Today, I am posting the streaming links and a few photos on the website www.chexo.org/chexo11

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Too many cool talks, including lightening/flash talks at #CHEXO11 Today, I am posting the streaming links and a few photos on the website www.chexo.org/chexo11

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#CHEXO11 just started
at STScI

CHesapeake bay area EXOplanet Meeting
#Exoplanets

Live streming: www.youtube.com/@stsciresear...

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#CHEXO11 just started at STScI

CHesapeake bay area EXOplanet Meeting
#Exoplanets

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We are restarting #CHEXO #Exoplanet meetings in the DMV+ area! We'll be having #CHEXO11 at STScI
in Baltimore on Friday May 17th 2024 (abstracts due Today). All day, no fees. Be sure to register and also subscribe to our mailing list on the new website: sites.google.com/view/chexo-m...

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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I am so glad this team revisited (reprocessed) all the VLT/NACO polarimetric differential imaging data sets! This is impressive, rewarding.

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I am sorry, I don't come to bsky very often! I am particularly excited about Aarynn Carter's program 5835 but also Beth Biller's 6005 (though this one is a filler, might not get executed) www.stsci.edu/jwst/science...

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JWST Cycle 3 outcome: I am excited to be part of several very very cool projects, sad for other projects but these will eventually pass. I am especially excited because some of the accepted proposals I am involved with aim at finding new planets in direct imaging!!!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR
www.instagram.com/p/C2VAA8ZrL0...

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janice's avatar janice @janiceleeastro.bsky.social
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Attending #AAS243 ? 🔭

✨Join us at the Habitable Worlds Observatory splinter session Wed Jan 10 R08/09 12:45-3:30 👉 info on how to get involved with HWO exoplanet and astrophysics working groups will be shared!

✨check out more HWO AAS activities here: www.stsci.edu/contents/eve... 👀 you there!

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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Now the launch is a thing of the past and we can celebrate its 2 years already! Wow, it's been so worth it to change job, learn space astronomy and missions, move country yet again 6.5 years ago. #JWST delivers and delivers and it's a pleasure to help making that happen. 2/2

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The NASA/ESA/CSA #JWST launch used to be an abstract thing of the future, something that we were working towards but we weren't exactly sure about because of the many subsystems and hardware we, as astronomers and scientists had absolutely no control over. 1/2

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen's avatar Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social
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See this headline is why people who have been busting their asses on SETI for LITERALLY DECADES are annoyed (and others are annoyed for them).

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I’m doing it because I’m French and it actually feels liberating 27 octobre #NoTwitterDay

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8 years working there, I saw many media visits. Yet, this might be the best video I have seen about ESO's Paranal Observatory, the VLT, VLTI and the ELT in construction.

Well done
@tomscott.com, no wonder it has over a million views in... 3 days!

youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?...

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Matthew Kenworthy's avatar Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social
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🔭🧪🌔 Preprint by Pearson and McCaughrean on the discovery of 540 planetary mass objects with JWST of which 42 are Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs) in the Trapezium! Utterly boggling to see the binary fraction pivot like this... cue arXiv posts in 3,2,1... esait-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mjm...

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.bsky.social
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I’m sorry … WOT?!

EXPLOSION FINGERS?!?!?!?

JWST’s new images from Orion Nebula are spectacular! Look at this structure 🥹🤩😱

Read more: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

📸 JWST / ESA / NASA / STScI / CSA / M. McCaughrean / S. Pearson

🔭🧪

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Benjamin Pope's avatar Benjamin Pope @fringetracker.bsky.social
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Marshall Perrin (STScI) gave a sold-out public talk on the JWST optics for the PerDomachuk prize lecture at Sydney last night and it was genuinely awesome; opening salvo for the Australian Exoplanet Workshop starting today!

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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Mental health 101 on my door at #STScI Thank you to #TheAVAM for having such an awesome store with good little goodies like this. So far, mostly managers came to press the button 🤔 #ForFun #ForReal #TedLasso

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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Cool to see the OSIRIS REx asteroid sample land in the Utah desert and then being safely transferred to a clean room at a Dugway Proving Ground facility. In 1999-2000 I used to go there to install a fiber-optic calibration system for the HiRes Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory, my intro to research!

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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I think Julieta Fierro (a great Mexican divulgador of astronomy) could point you to someone. She’s on 🦤only though. I’ll tag you and her. It’s true that the references of the Wikipedia pages are a bit old now so I don’t know who’s actively working on it.

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#bsky is not so great on the youtube preview...

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Matthew Kenworthy's avatar Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Dr. Iva Laginja for winning the 2023 Olivier Chesneau Prize on her PhD work "Contrast based tolerancing of space telescopes for exoEarth imaging"- thoroughly well deserved!

www.eso.org/sci/publicat... 🔭

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Julien Girard's avatar Julien Girard @juliengirard.bsky.social
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I observed SN 1987A many times with different instruments at the VLT. It’s incredible to see JWST’s take

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