Planetary Physics

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Exoplanets

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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

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Planetary Science

Studying geophysical processes throughout our solar system and beyond

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People

Suzanne Aigrain

Professor of Astrophysics
Raymond Pierrehumbert

Halley Professorship of Physics
Peter Read

Professor of Physics
Caroline Terquem

Professor of Physics
Neil Bowles

University Lecturer
Simon Calcutt

University Research Lecturer
Patrick Irwin

Professor of Planetary Physics
Jean-Loup Baudino

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Graham Lee

Post-Doctoral Researcher - Bernoulli Fellow
Daniel Toledo Carrasco

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Alexandru Valeanu

Graduate Student
Tristram Warren

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Kerri Donaldson Hanna

UKSA Aurora Research Fellow
Matthias Tecza

Harmoni Instrument Scientist
Colin Wilson

Researcher
Juan Alday Parejo

Graduate Student
Helena Bates

Graduate student
Ashwin Braude

Graduate student
Eloïse Brown

Graudate Student
Andrew Bunting

Grad Student
Rupert Dodkins

Graduate Student
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Ryan Garland

Graduate student
Mark Hammond

Graduate student
Andrea Alejandra Hidalgo Valadez

Graduate student
Chin-Min Liu

Graduate student
Cherry Qian

Graduate student
Jake Taylor

Graduate Student
Susie Wright

Graduate student
Norbert Zicher

Graduate Student
Jon Temple

Technical Specialist - Flight Systems
Jane Hurley

Post-doctoral Research Associate
Vinesh Rajpaul

Visiting researcher
Tim Lichtenberg

SNSF & Bernoulli Post-doctoral Fellow
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

The K2 M67 Study: A Curiously Young Star in an Eclipsing Binary in an Old Open Cluster
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 155 (2018) ARTN 152
EL Sandquist, RD Mathieu, SN Quinn et al.
A broad-band silicon microseismometer with 0.25 NG/rtHz performance
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 2018-January (2018) 113-116
WT Pike, IM Standley, SB Calcutt et al.
Wave number selection in the presence of noise: Experimental results
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 28 (2018) 053110-053110
D Zhilenko, O Krivonosova, M Gritsevich et al.
Assessing the long-term variability of acetylene and ethane in the stratosphere of Jupiter
ICARUS 305 (2018) 301-313
H Melin, LN Fletcher, PT Donnelly et al.
Haze and cloud structure of Saturn's North Pole and Hexagon Wave from Cassini/ISS imaging
Icarus (2018)
JF Sanz-Requena, S Pérez-Hoyos, A Sánchez-Lavega et al.
The Origin of Titan's External Oxygen: Further Constraints from ALMA Upper Limits on CS and CH2NH
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 155 (2018) ARTN 251
NA Teanby, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon et al.
LRG-BEASTS III: ground-based transmission spectrum of the gas giant orbiting the cool dwarf WASP-80
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 474 (2018) 876-885
J Kirk, PJ Wheatley, T Louden et al.
MKID digital readout tuning with deep learning
ASTRONOMY AND COMPUTING 23 (2018) 60-71
R Dodkins, S Mahashabde, K O'Brien et al.
Spatial variations in Titan's atmospheric temperature: ALMA and Cassini comparisons from 2012 to 2015
Icarus (2018)
AE Thelen, CA Nixon, NJ Chanover et al.
A Universal Spin-Mass Relation for Brown Dwarfs and Planets
Astrophysical Journal 859 (2018)
A Scholz, K Moore, R Jayawardhana et al.
Venus Upper Clouds and the UV Absorber From MESSENGER/MASCS Observations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 123 (2018) 145-162
S Perez-Hoyos, A Sanchez-Lavega, A Garcia-Munoz et al.
The TRAPPIST-1 system: orbital evolution, tidal dissipation, formation and habitability
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 476 (2018) 5032-5056
JCB Papaloizou, E Szuszkiewicz, C Terquem
Retrieval of H<inf>2</inf>O abundance in Titan's stratosphere
Icarus 311 (2018) 288-305
S Bauduin, PGJ Irwin, E Lellouch et al.
Descent Rate Models of the Synchronization of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by the Annual Cycle in Tropi...
JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 75 (2018) 2281-2297
K Rajendran, IM Moroz, SM Osprey et al.
Dynamical models to explain observations with SPHERE in planetary systems with double debris belts
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 611 (2018) ARTN A43
C Lazzoni, S Desidera, F Marzari et al.
The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey VIII. Flat transmission spectrum for the warm gas giant WAS...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 609 (2018) ARTN A33
H Parviainen, E Palle, G Chen et al.
The Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) of Three Spectrometers for the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 214 (2018) UNSP 7
O Korablev, F Montmessin, A Trokhimovskiy et al.
Exploring the Atmosphere of Neoproterozoic Earth: The Effect of O-2 on Haze Formation and Composition
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 858 (2018) ARTN 119
SM Horst, C He, MS Ugelow et al.
Superrotation on Venus, on Titan, and Elsewhere
ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, VOL 46 46 (2018) 175-202
PL Read, S Lebonnois
Jupiter's auroral-related stratospheric heating and chemistry II
ICARUS 300 (2018) 305-326
JA Sinclair, GS Orton, TK Greathouse et al.
Analysis of gaseous ammonia (NH3) absorption in the visible spectrum of Jupiter
ICARUS 302 (2018) 426-436
PGJ Irwin, N Bowles, AS Braude et al.
Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus's atmosphere
NATURE ASTRONOMY 2 (2018) 420-427
PGJ Irwin, D Toledo, R Garland et al.
New spectro-photometric characterization of the substellar object HR2562B using SPHERE
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 612 (2018) ARTN A92
D Mesa, J-L Baudino, B Charnay et al.
Simulating the detection and classification of high-redshift supernovae with HARMONI on the ELT
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 478 (2018) 3189-3198
S Bounissou, N Thatte, S Zieleniewski et al.
The DREAMS experiment flown on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the d...
MEASUREMENT 122 (2018) 484-493
C Bettanini, F Esposito, S Debei et al.
Investigations of the Mars Upper Atmosphere with ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 214 (2018) UNSP 29
MA Lopez-Valverde, J-C Gerard, F Gonzalez-Galindo et al.
The K2 M67 Study: Establishing the Limits of Stellar Rotation Period Measurements in M67 with K2 Campaign...
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 859 (2018) ARTN 167
R Esselstein, S Aigrain, A Vanderburg et al.
Seasonal evolution of C2N2, C3H4, and C4H2 abundances in Titan's lower stratosphere
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 609 (2018) ARTN A64
M Sylvestre, NA Teanby, S Vinatier et al.
Uranus's Northern Polar Cap in 2014
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 45 (2018) 5329-5335
D Toledo, PGJ Irwin, NA Teanby et al.
On the energy dissipation rate at the inner edge of circumbinary discs
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 464 (2017) 2429-2440
C Terquem, JCB Papaloizou
Dynamic mineral clouds on HD 189733b
Astronomy and Astrophysics 601 (2017)
GKH Lee, K Wood, I Dobbs-Dixon et al.
Robust, open-source removal of systematics in Kepler data
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 471 (2017) 759-769
S Aigrain, H Parviainen, S Roberts et al.
New Low-mass Eclipsing Binary Systems in Praesepe Discovered by K2
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 849 (2017)
E Gillen, LA Hillenbrand, TJ David et al.
Pinning down the mass of Kepler-10c: the importance of sampling and model comparison
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 471 (2017) L125-L130
V Rajpaul, LA Buchhave, S Aigrain
Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt expansion and thermal wave activity ahead of Juno's arrival
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 7140-7148
LN Fletcher, GS Orton, JA Sinclair et al.
A rotating annulus driven by localized convective forcing: a new atmosphere-like experiment
EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS 58 (2017) ARTN 75
H Scolan, PL Read
CASTAway: An asteroid main belt tour and survey
Advances in Space Research (2017)
NE Bowles, C Snodgrass, A Gibbings et al.
D/H Ratios on Saturn and Jupiter from Cassini CIRS
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 154 (2017) ARTN 178
JDR Pierel, CA Nixon, E Lellouch et al.
Seismic Coupling of Short-Period Wind Noise Through Mars' Regolith for NASA's InSight Lander
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 211 (2017) 485-500
NA Teanby, J Stevanovic, J Wookey et al.
Regimes of Axisymmetric Flow and Scaling Laws in a Rotating Annulus with Local Convective Forcing
Fluids 2 (2017) 41-41
S Wright, S Su, H Scolan et al.
The thermal structure of the Venus atmosphere
ICARUS 294 (2017) 124-155
SS Limaye, S Lebonnois, A Mahieux et al.
Forward and inverse kinetic energy cascades in Jupiter's turbulent weather layer
NATURE PHYSICS 13 (2017) 1135-+
RMB Young, PL Read
Climatological variations in Titan's atmospheric chemistry mapped using ALMA
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 254 (2017)
M Cordiner, C Nixon, S Charnley et al.
Composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) on Cassini
Applied Optics 56 (2017) 5274-5294
DE Jennings, FM Flasar, VG Kunde et al.
Sulfur dioxide in the Venus atmosphere: I. Vertical distribution and variability
ICARUS 295 (2017) 16-33
AC Vandaele, O Korablev, D Belyaev et al.
Sulfur dioxide in the Venus Atmosphere: II. Spatial and temporal variability
ICARUS 295 (2017) 1-15
AC Vandaele, O Korablev, D Belyaev et al.
The PanCam Instrument for the ExoMars Rover
ASTROBIOLOGY 17 (2017) 511-541
AJ Coates, R Jaumann, AD Griffiths et al.
The martian planetary boundary layer
in The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars, (2017) 172-202
PL Read, B Galperin, SE Larsen et al.
ALMA detection and astrobiological potential of vinyl cyanide on Titan.
Science advances 3 (2017) e1700022-
MY Palmer, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon et al.
Rayleigh scattering in the transmission spectrum of HAT-P-18b
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 468 (2017) 3907-3916
J Kirk, PJ Wheatley, T Louden et al.
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