Planetary Physics

Research groups in this theme

Exoplanets

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

We study the fundamental principles underlying the dynamics of planetary atmospheres using numerical models and laboratory experiments.

Planetary Science

Studying geophysical processes throughout our solar system and beyond

People

Suzanne Aigrain

Professor of Astrophysics
Neil Bowles

Associate Professor
Simon Calcutt

University Research Lecturer
Patrick Irwin

Professor of Planetary Physics
Raymond Pierrehumbert

Halley Professorship of Physics
Peter Read

Professor of Physics
Caroline Terquem

Professor of Physics
Colin Wilson

Researcher
Oscar Barragan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Graham Lee

Postdoctoral Researcher - Bernoulli Fellow
Xianyu Tan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Tristram Warren

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Tim Lichtenberg

Postdoctoral Fellow
Maxence Lefevre

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Matthias Tecza

Harmoni Instrument Scientist
Juan Alday Parejo

Graduate Student
Helena Bates

Graduate student
Ryan Boukrouche

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Eloïse Brown

Graudate Student
Andrew Bunting

Grad Student
Rowan Curtis

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Robert Graham

DPhil student in AOPP
Mark Hammond

Graduate student
Andrea Hidalgo Valadez

DPhil in Astrophysics (Astronomical instrumentation)
Hamish Innes

1st Year DPhil Student
Neil Lewis

Graduate Student
Alvaro Menduina

DPhil Student
Jake Taylor

Graduate Student
Norbert Zicher

Graduate Student
Jon Temple

Technical Specialist - Flight Systems
Ashwin Braude

Graduate student
Vinesh Rajpaul

Visiting researcher
Kerri Donaldson Hanna

UKSA Aurora Research Fellow
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

Mapping the zonal structure of Titan's northern polar vortex
Icarus 337 (2020)
J Sharkey, NA Teanby, M Sylvestre et al.
Exoplanetary Monte Carlo radiative transfer with correlated-k - I. Benchmarking transit and emission obse...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 487 (2019) 2082-2096
GKH Lee, J Taylor, SL Grimm et al.
Seasonal Evolution of Titan's Stratosphere During the Cassini Mission
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46 (2019) 3079-3089
NA Teanby, M Sylvestre, J Sharkey et al.
Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 490 (2019) 698-708
O Barragan, S Aigrain, D Kubyshkina et al.
Oxygen isotopic ratios in Martian water vapour observed by ACS MIR on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 630 (2019) ARTN A91
J Alday, CF Wilson, PGJ Irwin et al.
There is no Plan B for dealing with the climate crisis
BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS 75 (2019) 215-221
R Pierrehumbert
Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H2O and D/H observed by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Nature Springer Nature (2019)
AC Vandaele, O Korablev, F Daerden et al.
No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations
Nature Springer Nature (2019)
O Korablev, AC Vandaele, F Montmessin et al.
Wave Activity in Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt From Near-Infrared Reflectivity Observations
Geophysical Research Letters 46 (2019) 1232-1241
RS Giles, GS Orton, AW Stephens et al.
Potential Vorticity of Saturn's Polar Regions: Seasonality and Instabilities
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2019)
A Antuñano, T del Río-Gaztelurrutia, A Sánchez-Lavega et al.
Detection of Propadiene on Titan
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 881 (2019) ARTN L33
NA Lombardo, CA Nixon, TK Greathouse et al.
First-order mean motion resonances in two-planet systems: general analysis and observed systems
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 482 (2019) 530-549
C Terquem, JCB Papaloizou
Abundance measurements of Titan's stratospheric HCN, HC3N, C3H4, and CH3CN from ALMA observations
Icarus 319 (2019) 417-432
AE Thelen, CA Nixon, NJ Chanover et al.
Ethane in Titan's Stratosphere from Cassini CIRS Far- and Mid-infrared Spectra
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 157 (2019) ARTN 160
NA Lombardo, CA Nixon, M Sylvestre et al.
COMPARING THERMAL INFRARED SPECTRAL UNMIXING ALGORITHMS: APPLICATIONS TO BENNU AND OTHER AIRLESS BODIES.
METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE 54 (2019)
EC Brown, KLD Hanna, NE Bowles et al.
Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 621 (2019) ARTN A125
I Bonati, T Lichtenberg, DJ Bower et al.
Constraining the properties of HD 206893 B A combination of radial velocity, direct imaging, and astromet...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 627 (2019) ARTN L9
A Grandjean, A-M Lagrange, H Beust et al.
Stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-17 from long-term space-borne photometry
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 626 (2019) ARTN A38
AF Lanza, Y Netto, AS Bonomo et al.
Optical integral field spectroscopy of intermediate redshift infrared bright galaxies
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 486 (2019) 5621-5645
M Pereira-Santaella, D Rigopoulou, GE Magdis et al.
Constraints on Uranus's haze structure, formation and transport
Icarus Elsevier BV 333 (2019) 1-11
D Toledo, PGJ Irwin, P Rannou et al.
ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY DRIVEN BY RADIATIVE CLOUD FEEDBACK IN BROWN DWARFS AND DIRECTLY IMAGED EXTRASOLAR...
The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society (2019)
XIANYU TAN, A Showman
Measurement of CH3D on Titan at Submillimeter Wavelengths
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 157 (2019) ARTN 219
AE Thelen, CA Nixon, MA Cordiner et al.
A brightening of Jupiter's auroral 7.8-mu m CH4 emission during a solar-wind compression
NATURE ASTRONOMY 3 (2019) 607-613
JA Sinclair, GS Orton, J Fernandes et al.
Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis
NATURE ASTRONOMY 3 (2019) 341-351
DN DellaGiustina, JP Emery, DR Golish et al.
Small bodies science with the Twinkle space telescope
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS 5 (2019) ARTN 034004
B Edwards, S Lindsay, G Savini et al.
Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface
NATURE GEOSCIENCE 12 (2019) 242-+
KJ Walsh, ER Jawin, R-L Ballouz et al.
Seasonal evolution of temperatures in Titan's lower stratosphere
Icarus (2019)
M Sylvestre, NA Teanby, J Vatant d'Ollone et al.
Corrigendum to “Neptune's carbon monoxide proﬁle and phosphine upper limits from Herschel/SPIRE” (Icarus,...
Icarus 322 (2019) 261-261
NA Teanby, PGJ Irwin, JI Moses
Jupiter's auroral-related stratospheric heating and chemistry III
Icarus 328 (2019) 176-193
JA Sinclair, JI Moses, V Hue et al.
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part I: Jet spin-up in a dry atmosphere
ICARUS 326 (2019) 225-252
RMB Young, PL Read, Y Wang
Hazes and clouds in a singular triple vortex in Saturn's atmosphere from HST/WFC3 multispectral imaging
ICARUS 333 (2019) 22-36
JF Sanz-Requena, S Perez-Hoyos, A Sanchez-Lavega et al.
Evidence for ultra-cold traps and surface water ice in the lunar south polar crater Amundsen
ICARUS 332 (2019) 1-13
E Sefton-Nash, J-P Williams, BT Greenhagen et al.
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part II: Passive ammonia and water cycles
ICARUS 326 (2019) 253-268
RMB Young, PL Read, Y Wang
Linking mineralogy and spectroscopy of highly aqueously altered CM and CI carbonaceous chondrites in prep...
METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE (2019)
HC Bates, AJ King, KL Donaldson Hanna et al.
The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observ...
Nature communications 10 (2019) 1291-
CW Hergenrother, CK Maleszewski, MC Nolan et al.
Magma ascent in planetesimals: Control by grain size
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 507 (2019) 154-165
T Lichtenberg, T Keller, RE Katz et al.
Modeling the Angular Dependence of Emissivity of Randomly Rough Surfaces
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 124 (2019) 585-601
TJ Warren, NE Bowles, KD Hanna et al.
SEIS: Insight's Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 215 (2019) UNSP 12
P Lognonne, WB Banerdt, D Giardini et al.
An 11 Earth-mass, Long-period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 158 (2019) ARTN 165
AW Mayo, VM Rajpaul, LA Buchhave et al.
The K2 Bright Star Survey. I. Methodology and Data Release
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 245 (2019) ARTN 8
BJS Pope, TR White, WM Farr et al.
Spectral characterization of analog samples in anticipation of OSIRIS-REx's arrival at Bennu
ICARUS 319 (2019) 701-723
KLD Hanna, DL Schrader, EA Cloutis et al.
The unexpected surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu.
Nature 568 (2019) 55-60
DS Lauretta, DN DellaGiustina, CA Bennett et al.
The dynamic geophysical environment of (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx measurements
NATURE ASTRONOMY 3 (2019) 352-361
DJ Scheeres, JW McMahon, AS French et al.
A water budget dichotomy of rocky protoplanets from Al-26-heating
NATURE ASTRONOMY 3 (2019) 307-313
T Lichtenberg, GJ Golabek, R Burn et al.
Probable detection of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in Neptune's atmosphere
ICARUS 321 (2019) 550-563
PGJ Irwin, D Toledo, R Garland et al.
Analysis of gaseous ammonia (NH3) absorption in the visible spectrum of Jupiter - Update
ICARUS 321 (2019) 572-582
PGJ Irwin, N Bowles, AS Braude et al.
Neptune's carbon monoxide profile and phosphine upper limits from Herschel/SPIRE
ICARUS 319 (2019) 86-98
NA Teanby, PGJ Irwin, JI Moses
Latitudinal variation in the abundance of methane (CH4) above the clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT...
ICARUS 331 (2019) 69-82
PGJ Irwin, D Toledo, AS Braude et al.
Investigating the semiannual oscillation on Mars using data assimilation
ICARUS 333 (2019) 404-414
T Ruan, NT Lewis, SR Lewis et al.
Towards the analysis of JWST exoplanet spectra
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 490 (2019) 2086-2090
J-L Baudino, J Taylor, PGJ Irwin et al.
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