Madyson Barber

Thank you to everyone who helped out on both of these papers. I am excited to continue to see where these projects take us and what else we can learn about how planets form and evolve 🔭

In SOYSAUCE 1, we analyze the RM of TIDYE-1b (aka IRAS 04125+2902 b) and introduce our new survey targeting young stellar obliquities and planet atmospheres, with hopes of better understanding when and how planets become misaligned from their host stars 💫

In TIDYE 4, we report the discovery of a baby #exoplanet, this time in Vela. TOI-6448 is a 34Myr sun analog hosting a 9ish Re planet. Another giant baby! 🧸

⭐️ TWO papers hit the arXiv right before Thanksgiving! Check out TIDYE IV and SOYSAUCE I ⭐️

arxiv.org/abs/2511.10734

arxiv.org/abs/2511.14838

TESS Investigation -- Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) III: an inner super-Earth in TOI-2076 Young (<500 Myr) multi-planet transiting systems are valuable environments for understanding planet evolution by offering an opportunity to make direct comparisons between planets from the same format...

Check out the latest new planet from the Young Worlds Lab from @madysonbarber.bsky.social! TOI-2076e, a 200 Myr planet just a bit bigger than Earth (1.3Re). 🔭🧪🪐⭐ #exoplanet #exoplanets #tess #unc #uncresearch

arxiv.org/abs/2505.06358

TESS Investigation -- Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) III: an inner super-Earth in TOI-2076 Young (<500 Myr) multi-planet transiting systems are valuable environments for understanding planet evolution by offering an opportunity to make direct comparisons between planets from the same format...

🚨new planet alert🚨
Breaking news from the TI-DYE survey! A super-Earth on a tight orbit spotted around TOI-2076 with a refreshed age analysis
🔭⭐️ #exoplanets

Check it out on arXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06358

April edition of Sky and Telescope covered two papers from graduate students in the Young Worlds Lab (Madyson Barber and Pa Chia Thao). 🔭🧪🪐⚛️⭐🧑‍🎓

Check out the papers:
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024Natu...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AJ.....

The legacy of Sco-Cen keeps growing with another super-Neptune (5 Rearth) orbiting the 16 Myr star TIC 88785435 located in UCL! Check out the paper now on arxiv! 🪐🔭✨

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00576

#KnowThyStar2 shoutout to TIDYE-1 discovery by @madysonbarber.bsky.social @amann.bsky.social in Adam Kraus’ talk!

Everyone stop by and tell them about IRAS 04125+2902 🪐

#carrboro and #chapelhill friends! Check out Physics from the Ground Up. Tomorrow (Dec 3) at 6pm at Lanza's Cafe. ☕🔭🧪🪐⚛️

Hear from Madyson Barber (@madysonbarber.bsky.social) on her the youngest transiting planet and Stephen Yates on lesser known physicists of the Middle Ages.

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A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk Astronomers have found more than a dozen planets transiting 10-40 million year old stars, but even younger transiting planets have remained elusive. A possible reason for the lack of such discoveries ...

I’m happy to share that the first draft version is now on arXiv. There are slight differences in the stellar and planetary parameters, but the result is the same: a giant baby planet and a misaligned disk!

arxiv.org/abs/2411.18683

A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk - Nature Observations of a 3-million-year-old pre-main-sequence star with&nbsp;a misaligned disk&nbsp;reveal a giant orbiting planet; the system is ideal for studying the early formation and migration of plane...

hi Bluesky! I’m Madyson, a 3rd-year phd student at unc chapel hill discovering and studying young transiting planets. Maybe you saw our recent Nature paper on the discovery of my new favorite, IRAS 04125+2902 b (aka TIDYE-1b 😉)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...