Professor
- Address:
- ERC 541
- Phone:
- (773) 702-9568
- Email:
- jacobbean@uchicago.edu
- Website:
- http://astro.uchicago.edu/~jbean/index.html
Background
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Research Fields
- Exoplanets
- Instrumentation
Research Groups
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
- Possible sign of life in deep space faces new doubts, May 22, 2025
- Meet the ‘Planet Hunter’ searching for alien life, with Jacob Bean, May 15, 2025
- Study by UChicago scientists finds four tiny planets around one of our nearest stars, March 11, 2025
- 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