Jacob L. Bean

Professor

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Background

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2007

Research Fields

• Exoplanets
• Instrumentation

Research Groups

• Bean Exoplanet Group

Scientific Projects

• Magellan Telescopes
• MAROON-X: M dwarf Advanced Radial velocity Observer Of Neighboring eXoplanets

Students

• Adina Feinstein (graduate/Astronomy and Astrophysics)
• Megan Mansfield (graduate/Geophysical Sciences)

Research

Jacob Bean's current research focuses on the study of extrasolar planetary systems. He uses a variety of ground- and space-based facilities to detect and characterize planets around nearby stars. His particular interests are in studying planets around low-mass stars and in probing the atmospheres of the smallest known exoplanets.

News & Highlights

• NASA’s Webb telescope peers into the boundary between day and night on a distant world, August 20, 2024
• Rafael Luque won a 2023-2024 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, December 18, 2023
• “Researchers get first up-close look at mysterious planet’s atmosphere”, UChicago News, May 11, 2023
• “Meet astronomy and astrophysics student, Madison Brady”,  PSD News, November 28, 2022
• “James Webb Space telescope reveals a faraway planet’s band of clouds “, UChicago News, November 18, 2022
• “The Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet,” by Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED.com, September 12, 2022
• “Scientists announce first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope”, UChicago News, by Louise Lerner, August 25, 2022
• Adina Feinstein will receive William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, June 7, 2022
• Congratulations to Megan Mansfield, May 18, 2022
• Congratulations to Professor Jacob Bean, October 20, 2021
• “Scientists confirm third-nearest star with a planet—and it’s rocky like Earth”,  by Louise Lerner, UChicago News, March 4, 2021
• Astronomers Propose a Novel Method of Finding Atmospheres on Rocky Worlds, December 2, 2019

• UChicago News

Publications

• ADS
• arXiv
• INSPIRE