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Tom Bickle
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Astro student interested in the atmospheres of young brown dwarfs & planetary mass objects | Can usually be found shouting obscenities at python. he/him
Ah yes, my favourite day to check arxiv has arrived again
April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hmm... 2nd quintile in my first ever JWST proposal as PI. Not sure whether to be annoyed or pleased lol.
March 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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.
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...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
November 8, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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.
November 8, 2024 at 12:51 AM
I'm here now!
November 8, 2024 at 12:47 AM