Clémence Fontanive

🔭🕵️‍♀️ Space detective investigating brown dwarfs & exoplanets 🪐🛰 | Love binary stars, tennis & cheese 🌟🎾🧀 | Trottier Fellow @iExoplanets | @AoT_Montreal

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Hello, I have a PhD in astrophysics, and following a powerful brain freeze I had to refer to a telescope as a "space zoom device" today.

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Very glad my memes are useful to inspire fellow scientists 😅

[Maria Vincent (@themariavincent.bsky.social) @themariavincent]

@astroclem's overview of designing direct imaging surveys has instilled my confidence in finding my way one day with any bizarre ideas in the quest for expanding our repo of images of exoplanets, and hopefully some in their nascent disks
(PS: I loved the memes!)
#sagan2024

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

@astro_catherine 😬😬😬

[Astronomy on Tap | Astronomie en Fût - Montréal @AoT_Montreal]

Prêt·e à plonger dans les mystères de l’espace et du temps ? Rejoignez-nous pour notre prochaine soirée, où nous dévoilerons le paradoxe des jumeaux et explorerons les simulations de missions sur Mars réalisées ici sur Terre ! Notez la date du 21 mai dans vos calendriers !⏳🧑‍🚀

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

*April, not March 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Total Solar Eclipse in Montréal on March 8th, 2024 ☀️🌑
What an amazing phenomenon to witness! Absolutely incredible experience

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Very happy to see my lonely brown dwarfs (and the Hubble Space Telescope) getting so much love 😁

[Hubble @NASAHubble]

All by myself... 🎶

Hubble observations show that brown dwarfs – cosmic objects that are too small to be a star, but bigger than Jupiter – don't have long relationships with an orbiting companion.

Pairs drift apart due to the pull of bypassing stars: https://t.co/lQ4iv8YY0g

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

@NASAHubble WOOO THAT'S MY RESEARCH!!

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Getting NASA to publish a press release about a brown dwarf null detection is certainly among my proudest achievements 😏
https://t.co/mrYEolrcxL

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

@AstroEricL The dogs were amazing, it was so hard to leave them 💔

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Celebrated Christmas with a new family this year 🐺☃️
Highly recommend the dogsledding adventure (which doubled up as a wonderful, much-needed animal therapy) 🤩

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

It was so nice to be back in Edinburgh for the first time since finishing my PhD! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐮🥃
I even got a rare full-week of good weather in Scotland 😎

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

It's a white halloween in Quebec! 👻❄️

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Not bad, Canada 🍂🍁

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

@astro_catherine Meeeee 😁

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

I never thought I would see this but turns out this does actually happen! 😯

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

"Accepted without revisions"

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

It finally came out!!!
https://t.co/SfmHfabNwF

Hope you all like null detections 🥴

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

The new referee is also taking their sweet time and it's now over 4 months after submission and still no report 🥲

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Un petit podcast sur nos évènements grand public Astro en Fût à Montréal!

[Astronomy on Tap | Astronomie en Fût - Montréal @AoT_Montreal]

On parle de nous dans un balado Voyage dans l'espace 🤓🎙️

Deux de nos organisatrices expliquent ce que sont les évènements Astro en Fût, retracent leur histoire à Montréal et à travers le monde, et dévoilent le programme à venir !

https://t.co/qzjUMcZs0G

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

The new referee is also taking their sweet time and it's now over 4 months after submission and still no report 🥲

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Almost 3 months after submitting my paper, the editor had no news from the reviewer and decided to search for another referee, so it is now back to square one...
Such delays are pretty big on the timescale of a postdoc and it feels like it's seriously impacting my job apps now 😥

[Astronomy on Tap | Astronomie en Fût - Montréal @AoT_Montreal]

After a long summer break, we are finally back: we will be back on September 19th at the Siboire St-Laurent with our first French/English bilingual event!

FB event: https://t.co/knPJk59ywU

#AstroOnTap #AoTMTL
@iExoplanets @TSIMcGill

[Clémence Fontanive @astroclem]

Get excited about the @AoT_Montreal schedule for the coming semester!!

[Astronomy on Tap | Astronomie en Fût - Montréal @AoT_Montreal]

Did you miss us? We certainly did!
We know that the summer was rough without talking about astronomy but don't worry, Astro on Tap is coming back soon, with three events in the Fall 😄
See you all in September!

#AstroOnTap #AoTMTL