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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Our poster highlighting the discovery pathways for brown dwarfs and exoplanets with the SKA for the SKA science meeting in Görlitz next week!

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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

One interesting application of the framework is that it can be used to monitor magnetic cycles. Re-applying the framework to earlier data, we find evidence that the magnetic obliquity increases by 30 degrees over the course of ~6 months! This provides insight into the interior dynamo and structure.

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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

ECM emission is characterised by its beam pattern, resembling a cone centered on the magnetic field line. By watching these cones come in and out of view, we can extract the underlying magnetic geometry.

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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our recent work has just been published in A&A! We developed a retrieval framework for the large-scale magnetic fields of objects emitting radio bursts driven by the electron cyclotron maser (ECM) instability. We applied it to the brown dwarf J0623, and found that it has a large magnetic obliquity!

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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Delighted to announce that our Cool Stars splinter on (sub)-stellar magnetospheres is now open for abstract submission! The deadline is March 12th at 23:59 UTC. Details below! cs22substellar.github.io

cs22substellar.github.io

Unraveling the magnetic fields of (sub)-stellar systems

Cool Stars 22 splinter session

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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

I had a nice chat recently with @astrojonny.bsky.social about hints of star-planet interactions on YZ Ceti, and what we can learn from them about exoplanetary magnetic fields. Check out the article below featuring some amazing illustrations that I will be stealing for future talks!

quantamagazine.org

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism | Quanta Magazine

New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets.

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Reposted by Rob Kavanagh

Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Good day at the blackboard with @astrojoe.bsky.social & @robkavanagh.bsky.social, in person collaboration rocks

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