Dr. Caprice Phillips
@capricephillips
NHFP Sagan Fellow@UCSC 🍌🐌|RCSA Fellow| Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow| brown dwarfs & exoplanets| Black In Astro VP|plan(e)t mom 🪴/🪐|she/her/hers Website:
We also compare our work to some literature values from the Brewer Catalog and find generally good agreement in our abundance measurements. With notable differences in OI and N abundances will are notoriously hard to measure.
We also used the framework by Emily Calamari to predict the types of clouds expected to form in the brown dwarf companions based on the host star Mg/Si ratio! We can also look at comparing the Mg/Si ratio of the host with the inferred Mg/Si ratio from BD companion via retrieval analysis.
We also see a spread beyond solar in metallicity for the host stars as well!
It turns out that the in our sample, the host stars of some companion brown dwarfs exhibit similar diversity in their C/O ratios as some hosts of directly-imaged exoplanets. The dashed line is solar C/O values for reference. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
We sought out to "Know Thy Star, Know Thy Brown Dwarf", as a lot of retrieval analysis and forward modeling of brown dwarfs in companions systems have made assumptions about host stars being solar-like. But is this true? We use the code BACCHUS to find out! Look at that beautiful spectra from PEPSI!
Paper accepted! Coming to the arXiv - once I fix these red warning errors lol. First paper in my postdoc, 2 years in the making!
First RCSA conference as a 2026 RCSA Fellow! Had a great time! 🏜️ @rescorp.org
My grandparents house or whats left of it. I am so devastated.
Congrats to Phoenix for successfully defending her undergraduate thesis! She’s headed to UW Madison Physics PhD program as a NSF-GRFP Fellow! #BlackinAstro
Headed to my first #bdexocon conference! Very excited because I’ve always wanted to go! Also presenting!!
Day 1 of the Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship Program & Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship Spring Academic Retreat! Great day! Im presenting tomorrow!
Amy made a beautiful bowl I commissioned for a friend! And it came out sooo good! My friend loves it!
Had a great time as the colloquium speaker for UC San Diego Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics! I even got to talk about @blackinastro.bsky.social in a “Antiracism in the Physical Sciences” class! #BlackInAstro
So...planning a workshop/conference is actually super hard 🥲, I see why people be conference princesses. So many things...so little time. The things I am learning from the other side of the conference scene, helpful but stressful lol.
#AAS247 I'm giving a talk in Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs session from 10:00 - 11:30 in 229A. I'm going at 10:30 if you wanna learn about abundances of stars that host benchmark brown dwarfs! Can we assume solar? What kinds of clouds can we predict? Come learn!
My nephew made this hangman so cute. His spelling is off lol but it says “Auntie Caprice is awesome she like space”. My heart 💜!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Holiday sadness is hitting me hard. I wish my mom was here.
Went to Kia here in Cali and they really quoted me $336 for a basic oil change. I wanna go home lol. 🤡. I did not pay these prices lol. Gonna be shopping around more.
Great NSBP-NSHP conference in San Jose. My first as a postdoc and invited speaker. Great to see mentees and folks shine. And see my peeps!
This is the face of astronomy! Like this is one of my new favorite photos! We ate!!!! 💅🏾
Congrats @ohdearz.bsky.social on receiving the Nancy Grace Roman Award from ASP for promoting gender equity snd inclusion in astronomy and related fields! It was awesome to be there and see all the amazing things! Truly well deserved! astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a...