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

Senior Research Fellow
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
Kevin Olsen

UKSA Aurora Fellow
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
Mael Es-Sayeh

Intern student
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
Joost Wardenier

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Norbert Zicher

Graduate Student
Jon Temple

Technical Specialist - Flight Systems
Vinesh Rajpaul

Visiting researcher
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

Evidence for H2 dissociation and recombination heat transport in the atmosphere of KELT-9b
Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 888 (2020) L15
M Mansfield, JL Bean, KB Stevenson et al.
Jupiter in the Ultraviolet: Acetylene and Ethane Abundances in the Stratosphere of Jupiter from Cassini O...
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 159 (2020) ARTN 291
H Melin, LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin et al.
Advanced Net Flux Radiometer for the Ice Giants
Space Science Reviews Springer Verlag 216 (2020)
S Aslam, RK Achterberg, SB Calcutt et al.
Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impac...
Environmental Research Letters IOP Publishing (2020)
JM Lynch, M Cain, RT Pierrehumbert et al.
Ice, fire, or fizzle: The climate footprint of Earth's supercontinental cycles
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems American Geophysical Union 21 (2020) e2019GC008464
M Jellinek, A Lenardic, R Pierrehumbert
Venus III The View After Venus Express
Springer, 2020
B Bézard, C Russell, T Satoh et al.
Erratum: “An 11 Earth-mass, Long-period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star” (2019, AJ, 158, 165)
The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 159 (2020) 34-34
AW Mayo, VM Rajpaul, LA Buchhave et al.
The Oxford 3D thermophysical model with application to PROSPECT/Luna 27 study landing sites
Planetary and Space Science Elsevier 182 (2019) 104790
O King, T Warren, N Bowles et al.
Constraints on the shallow elastic and anelastic structure of Mars from InSight seismic data
NATURE GEOSCIENCE 13 (2020) 213-220
P Lognonne, W Banerdt, W Pike et al.
First detection of ozone in the mid-infrared at Mars: implications for methane detection
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences (2020)
K Olsen, F Lefèvre, F Montmessin et al.
Understanding and mitigating biases when studying inhomogeneous emission spectra with JWST
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Royal Astronomical Society (2020)
J Taylor, V Parmentier, P Irwin et al.
First observation of the magnetic dipole CO2 main isotopologue absorption band at 3.3 µm in the atmospher...
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences (2020)
A Trokhimovskiy, V Perevalov, O Korablev et al.
Planet Hunters TESS I: TOI 813, a subgiant hosting a transiting Saturn-sized planet on an 84-day orbit
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (2020) staa138
N Zicher, TS Boyajian, C Briceño et al.
Linking mineralogy and spectroscopy of highly aqueously altered CM and CI carbonaceous chondrites in prep...
Meteoritics and Planetary Science Wiley (2019)
H Bates, AJ King, KL Donaldson Hanna et al.
Spatial structure in Neptune’s 7.90-m stratospheric CH emission, as measured by VLT-VISIR
Icarus Elsevier 345 (2020) 113748
J Sinclair, G Orton, L Fletcher et al.
Mapping the zonal structure of Titan’s northern polar vortex
Icarus Elsevier 337 (2019) 113441
J Sharkey, N Teanby, M Sylvestre et al.
Mon-735: a new low-mass pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary in NGC 2264
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 495 (2020) 1531-1548
E Gillen, LA Hillenbrand, J Stauffer et al.
Pleiades or Not? Resolving the Status of the Lithium-rich M Dwarfs HHJ 339 and HHJ 430
The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 160 (2020) 30-30
J Stauffer, D Barrado, T David et al.
Baroclinic and barotropic instabilities in planetary atmospheres
NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 27 (2020) 147-173
P Read, D Kennedy, N Lewis et al.
A robust, template-free approach to precise radial velocity extraction
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Oxford University Press (OUP) 492 (2020) 3960-3983
V Rajpaul, S Aigrain, L Buchhave
Initial results from the InSight mission on Mars
Nature Geoscience Springer Nature (2020)
SE Smrekar, D Giardini, M Golombek et al.
Exoplanetary Monte Carlo radiative transfer with correlated-k I. Benchmarking transit and emission observ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 487 (2019) 2082-2096
G Lee, J Taylor, SL Grimm et al.
The atmospheric circulation of ultra-hot Jupiters
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 886 (2019) 1-20
X Tan, T Komacek
The Snowball Stratosphere
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres American Geophysical Union 124 (2019) 11819-11836
RJ Graham, TA Shaw, DS Abbot
Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Oxford University Press (OUP) 490 (2019) 698-708
D Kubyshkina, D Gandolfi, J Livingston et al.
Oxygen isotopic ratios in Martian water vapour observed by ACS MIR on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter...
Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 630 (2019) 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 Informa UK Limited 75 (2019) 215-221
R Pierrehumbert
An 11 Earth-mass, long-period Sub-Neptune orbiting a Sun-like star
Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 158 (2019) 165-165
AW Mayo, VM Rajpaul, LA Buchhave et al.
A ghost in the toast: TESS background light produces a false “transit” across τ Ceti
Research Notes of the AAS American Astronomical Society 3 (2019) 145-145
N Eisner, B Pope, S Aigrain et al.
Detection of Propadiene on Titan
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 881 (2019) ARTN L33
NA Lombardo, CA Nixon, TK Greathouse et al.
Publisher Correction: Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic s...
Nature Geoscience 12 (2019) 399-
KJ Walsh, ER Jawin, RL Ballouz et al.
Comparing thermal infrared spectral unmixing algorithms: applications to Bennu and other airless bodies
Meteoritics and Planetary Science Wiley 54 (2019)
EC Brown, K Donaldson Hanna, NE Bowles et al.
Constraining the properties of HD 206893 B. A combination of radial velocity, direct imaging, and astrome...
Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 627 (2019) 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 and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 626 (2019) 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 Societ Oxford University Press 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.
Measurement of CH3D on Titan at Submillimeter Wavelengths
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 157 (2019) ARTN 219
AE Thelen, CA Nixon, MA Cordiner et al.
Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and Jupiter- and Saturn-like planets
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 883 (2019)
AP Showman, X Tan, X Zhang
Constraining the properties of HD 206893 B A combination of radial velocity, direct imaging, and astromet...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 629 (2019) ARTN C1
A Grandjean, A-M Lagrange, H Beust et al.
Small bodies science with the Twinkle space telescope
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS 5 (2019) 34004
B Edwards, S Lindsay, N Bowles et al.
Hazes and clouds in a singular triple vortex in Saturn's atmosphere from HST/WFC3 multispectral imaging
Icarus Elsevier 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 Elsevier 332 (2019) 1-13
E Sefton-Nash, J-P Williams, BT Greenhagen et al.
Validation of the HITRAN 2016 and GEISA 2015 line lists using ACE-FTS solar occultation observations
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 236 (2019)
KS Olsen, CD Boone, GC Toon 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 American Astronomical Society 245 (2019) ARTN 8
BJS Pope, TR White, WM Farr et al.
The Yamato-type (CY) carbonaceous chondrite group: Analogues for the surface of asteroid Ryugu?
Geochemistry Elsevier 79 (2019) 125531
AJ King, H Bates, D Krietsch et al.
Latitudinal variation in the abundance of methane (CH4) above the clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT...
Icarus Elsevier 331 (2019) 69-82
P Irwin, D Toledo Carrasco, A Braude et al.
Investigating the semiannual oscillation on Mars using data assimilation
Icarus Elsevier 333 (2019) 404-414 )
T Ruan, N Lewis, S 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.
The K2 Bright Star Survey. I. Methodology and data release
Astrophysical Journal Supplement American Astronomical Society 245 (2019) 8
BJS Pope, TR White, WM Farr et al.
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