Welcome!
This is the website for Prof. Jacob Bean's group in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. The main theme of the group's research is the observational study of planets outside the Solar System ("exoplanets"). We use ground- and space-based telescopes to detect and characterize these worlds. We are also engaged in building new instruments as part of our push towards eventually identifying other Earth-like planets.
News
04/01/2013: Graduate students Laura Kreidberg and Megan Bedell have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
03/05/2013: We submitted a paper with ground-based transmission and emission spectroscopy of WASP-19b to ApJ.
02/18/2013: Exoplanets research at Chicago was featured in a recent University news story.
