Matthew Kenworthy

Just had this interaction with one of the Dutch students in my group.

This may well be the pinnacle of my professional career.

My all-time favourite method of debugging is going to bed and looking at it again the next morning.

Marcussen+ solve a complex multiple stellar system in a very elegant paper: “The µ Herculis system solved after nearly three centuries”. It’s rare that the figures in a paper make me stop and say “Wow!” and I tip my hat to the authors for genuinely beautiful diagrams. Go take a look! #astrodon 🔭☄ https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12492

Li+ on “A Search for Wide-orbit Planets Around M-dwarfs using Deep MIRI 15 micron Images” shows how the background sensitivity of JWST enables searches down to a few Jupiter masses for targets that are typically several gigayears old. #exoplanets #astrodon https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07703

Gruyère stuffed cheesy bread for Easter Sunday brunch #OmNomNom

RE: @JoeSondow@dice.camp

I just switched off AI training, and shut off Copilot. I'll make my own mistakes, thanks.

Together with Sebastiaan Haffert our review on “High-Contrast Coronagraphy” is out - writing an ARA&A review has been on my academic bucket list, and I’m very proud of the result. It uses the showyourwork! framework, making it a completely reproducible paper. #FAIR #astrodon #exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02907

#Introduction

I'm Matt, and I'm an associate professor of astronomy ✨ at #Leiden observatory. I study #exoplanets by Direct Imaging 📸 - my group has discovered three exoplanets 🪐🪐🪐 to date, and two of these have been imaged by the #JWST!

I also look for giant ring systems around other planets 🪐 by seeing the shadows they cast towards the Earth.

I post about recent #astronomy research and enjoy doing #outreach.

#Astrodon