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Dr. Clarissa R. Do Ó
@astroclary.bsky.social
b. thomas soifer (exp) postdoctoral fellow @ caltech astro | ucsb and ucsd alum | coffee, ⛸ , Star Wars

clarissardoo.github.io
my last phd thesis paper is now accepted to ApJ and is on the arXiv today! arxiv.org/abs/2510.11021
We simulate the PDS 70 exoplanet system's future using hydrodynamic + n-body simulations involving the disk and the two planets to see how its orbital architecture evolves! 🪐🪐
On The Orbital Evolution of Multiple Wide Super-Jupiters: How Disk Migration and Dispersal Shape the Stability of The PDS 70 System
Direct imaging has revealed exoplanet systems hosting multiple wide-orbit Super-Jupiters, where planet-planet interactions can shape their long-term dynamical evolution. These strong perturbations may...
arxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m thrilled to share that I will be an EXP Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics at Caltech 🥹🥹🦫🦫

I will continue working on the direct imaging of exoplanets. So excited I get to continue doing what I love while staying in my beloved Southern California 🫶🪐🔭
June 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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#exoplanets #jobs 📣

I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.

*Launches NEXT YEAR!

Please RT & share with your networks!

aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey PIT | American Astronomical Society
IPAC, part of the Physics, Math, and Astronomy Division at Caltech, provides science operations, user support, data and archive services, and scientific vision to maximize discovery with observatories...
aas.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Look at those two spiral galaxies. Two Milky Ways. Two hundreds of billions of stars and planets. Two homes.

*slams fists onto table* DAMMIT the universe is SO COOL.
June 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
im a doctor ahhh 🥹🥹 got hooded for my PhD in astrophysics today it’s so unreal!!
June 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
defended my thesis and officially have a PhD in Astrophysics 🥹🥹

5 years of hard work, dedication and lots of support from my advisor and the department 🫶

so grateful for what’s been and what’s to come
June 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
thesis sent to committee :O

unreal
May 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Very excited about this paper led by Ilyse Clark resolving an extragalactic, low metallicity photodissociation region for the first time! 5x more CO-dark H2 column than the comparable Milky Way PDR! arxiv.org/abs/2504.06247
The Resolved Structure of a Low Metallicity Photodissociation Region
Photodissociation Regions (PDRs) are key to understanding the feedback processes that shape interstellar matter in galaxies. One important type of PDR is the interface between HII regions and molecula...
arxiv.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
kind of relieving that the solar system is also going through it
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
my last thesis paper in a nutshell
April 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
alright, they're locked in
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
n-body simulating so hard i can see all the mean motion resonances in my head D:
March 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"wow why is my parallel code still taking so long to run??"

my parallel code:
March 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
after doing direct imaging for so long, I think I’ve become the condescending one
Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063
March 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
how my last thesis project feels right now
March 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
how the phd acknowledgements section is going... she's so timely with her album drops it's actually insane
March 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
ah, yes, the daily question arrives: should I write my thesis intro or should I write my last dissertation paper (chapter)?
March 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
feeling accomplished because I found the two major questions my phd thesis is trying to answer in a way that everything seems related. It only took four years and six months, but I guess it's good it happened before my defense?
March 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
trying to stay sane while thinking about torques in a protoplanetary disk to understand my planet migration plots D:
March 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
protoplanetary disks making me lose my mind for (no joke) probably the twentieth time within the last two years
March 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
channeling my inner @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social for thesis writing
February 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
the ucsd defense document is driving me MAD with this table formatting business ughhhh
February 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
actually so sad that Michelle Trachtenberg passed away :( when I was 10 I watched ice princess and that’s what got me into physics and ice skating which are both things I pursued even as an adult…. She unironically inspired me to be where I am now. RIP Michelle
February 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Meanwhile: we're doing the first full cooldown of the upgraded spectrograph for the Gemini Planet Imager.
February 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
pov you just scheduled your thesis defense and booked the room so now the clock is officially ticking
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February 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM