Mma Ikwut-Ukwa

Very excited to share my first first-author paper! (And to join the world of astro twitter) arxiv.org/abs/2007.00678

Think kids are too young to do original research? Come hear our group of #SRMP high-schoolers talk about their work on astrophysics and climate science. I'll be co-hosting the symposium with @MITMuseum teens on May 21 @ 4 pm ET. Register here: mailchi.mp/harvard/srmp-s…

Congratulations to Dr. Theron Carmichael @Therbaer for successfully defending his PhD thesis!!! #BlackInAstro

@isadesis @Princeton @PUPolitics Congrats Isabelle!! 😍

It's official!! In the fall I'll be starting a PhD program in political science at @Princeton! Can't wait for many more years of studying, learning, and conducting research on issues I care about. 🐯🐅🎉 @PUPolitics

@AstroJeaA @Harvard YESSS 🤩🤩

I’m so so excited to share that I’ll be starting my Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics at @Harvard this fall! This was an incredibly difficult decision to make, but one that I was so grateful to have, and I couldn’t have done it without the help of my amazing mentors!! ✨❤️

@myastropuffs @NSFGRFP Congrats Courtney!! 😍

So, I’ve been having a rough time with some medical issues and woke up today dreading my Optics final... Then I found out this morning that I got the @NSFGRFP! This has taken a village and thank you to everyone who supported me through this process. ⭐️ I am over the moon.

@Astro_Zozo @NSFGRFP @amvanderburg CONGRATS ZOE!! 🥳

omg omg .... just heard that I got the @NSFGRFP !!! thank you to @amvanderburg for all his help and mentorship throughout the past two years!!! Could not have done it without you!!! 🥳🥺🎉

@kortizceballos @NSFGRFP YAYYY congrats Kevin!!!!

Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars

@ExoCytherean @TESSatMIT Thank you Stephen!!

@planetaryMma @TESSatMIT Congratulations Mma!! Another great job!

New paper on the arXiv today! We confirm and characterize two new massive, short-period Jupiters, TOI-558 and TOI-559, found in the @TESSatMIT Full Frame Images. This work is the final form of my senior thesis! 🙌 arxiv.org/abs/2102.02222

@astrojoeg thank you!! me too! :)

@planetaryMma this is a super cool plot!! eager to see it fill out over the years. congratulations on completing this outstanding work!!

@exoplamets @TESSatMIT thanks Samantha!!!

@astroshrey @TESSatMIT thank you Shreyas!!

@planetaryMma @TESSatMIT congrats Mma, really cool result!!

@MeteoretteFinds thank you Jasmeet!! :)

This is awesome, congrats, Mma! #exoplanets! :-)

@bsgaudi Thank you Scott!

I'm super excited to advertise the following paper by Harvard undergraduate alumnus and future Caltech grad student Mma Ikwut-Ukwa (@planetaryMma) on "Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full Frame Images". arxiv.org/abs/2102.02222

Also, kudos to Mma's advisor on this paper, Joey Rodriguez (@Astro_JRod).

Huge thank you to the best advisor @Astro_JRod + coauthors @samuelnquinn @amvanderburg @exofastupdates @bsgaudi @Therbaer @abieryla @lkreidberg @Jonmjenkins @ProfSaraSeager @twitspek @astrojennb @johannateske @JoshuaSchlieder and all the others who I have yet to find on twitter!

We also examine the current sample of known transiting hot Jupiters--could there be multiple distinct mass-period distributions within this population? We’ll know more as TESS eventually delivers a nearly complete sample of hot Jupiters transiting nearby, bright stars