L. C. Mayorga

The power has gone out at work many times this summer. We're a place that invested in generators. And I realized today that as annoying as it is to have the emergency light come on and the AC go out, the wifi *is* on the generator. Based

Barstow: reaching wishlist includes long baseline stability (500 hrs), broad wavelength coverage (0.15-2.5um), and polarimeter. And we get eclipses and transits for free. #HWO25

Barstow: reflected light phase curves are also really good probes of aerosol properties. Polarimetry would also be a very useful diagnostic of aerosol composition #HWO25

Barstow: HWO phase curves will make many more planets accessible and will uniquely give us reflected light phase curves instead of only thermal and makes a bunch of species accessible like Sulfur species in 200-400nm wavelengths #HWO25

Barstow: Phase curves with JWST have showed us that e.g. on WASP-43b winds are so fast that it cannot cool quickly enough to form things like methane #HWO25

Barstow: there is a dichotomy between the types of giant planets observed with jwst (tidally locked) and giant planets like Jupiter that are fast potatoes. But what is happening in the in between P~30days and what might their atmospheres be like chemically and dynamically #HWO25

Barstow is presenting work on behalf of all of us on the dynamics and chemistry of transiting exoplanets scdd #HWO25

Solar system panel time - panelists Laura Mayorga, Geronimo Villanueva, Shingo Kameda, Cristina Thomas and Kurt Retherford, chaired by Heidi Hammel. First question: why do we need to use space telescopes to look at the solar system? Monitoring of objects is key, e.g. following up flybys. #HWO25

Slide with QR code, pictures and names of people, info about joining a group

Happy to share that I've been selected to join the leadership team of the new Habitable Worlds Observatory Science Interest Group, representing the Cosmic Origins community in particular. I look forward to working with my awesome co-chairs on furthering this inspiring mission! #HWO25

Folks should be following @drjovian.bsky.social for a play by play of the #HWO25 conference this week!

While we are still working out our terms of reference we hope to facilitate and shepherd current and future SIGs/SAGs and other community related HWO activities to the eyes of the TMPO and the CSIT so that they may inform and improve the scientific achievements of HWO #HWO25

It was also announced that I am one of the co-chairs for the new HWO crossPAG SIG!
#HWO25

I'm at the #HWO25 meeting this week and this morning's talks have been quite inspiring that we can actually get this thing done.

I found it in a random binder of poem clippings in jr high and it was one of those little moments that was unremarkable at the time but left magical threads in my life

Then her white knife,
Her closing eyelid.

Her darkness.

David Wagoner, The Death of the Moon, 1977

Our feet washed pale as shell, we faltered
After her, naming all she could answer,
But she turned her cold, lopsided face
Further away than we could follow.

She shrank to half a skull,
Sinking as if to sleep
At the salt edge of her grave.

Through the long death of the moon, we drank her light
As slowly as snow-melt bearing her funeral
Against the turn of the earth by nights like flares
As she fell westward, trailing a torn shroud
Across the mountains, over the ashen water...

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Wow I was gonna ask you about coming to visit, but now maybe I won't

HST is a historic Maryland vehicle

Some of them have wilted and died.

NASA finally gives us ROSES

Like many NASA projects and missions, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute was asked to submit a closeout budget this week. Hopefully just a drill! But very difficult just the same. 💔

Regardless of what happens, I’m *so proud* of the service we have performed for the community over the years. ✨🪐💾🔭👩🏻‍🔬

I'm an asteroid!
minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/sh...

It was such an unexpected and happy surprise to have an asteroid named after me!

My sincerest thanks to those who made it possible

Encouraging my Solar System colleagues to get involved in this conference, so it is not just astrophysicists and exoplaneteers talking to one another abut the field that we actually study! noirlab.edu/science/even...

Wild to watch NASA leadership admitting that they have not pushed back against the 50% cut to SMD