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.

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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
Charlotte Marriner

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
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ice-shelf damming in the glacial Arctic Ocean
CRYOSPHERE 11 (2017) 1745-1765
J Nilsson, M Jakobsson, C Borstad et al.
Effects of varying environmental conditions on emissivity spectra of bulk lunar soils
ICARUS 283 (2017) 326-342
KLD Hanna, BT Greenhagen, PWR III 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.
A deeper view of the CoRoT-9 planetary system A small non-zero eccentricity for CoRoT-9b likely generated...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 603 (2017) ARTN A43
AS Bonomo, G Hebrard, SN Raymond et al.
The formation and evolution of Titan's winter polar vortex.
Nature communications 8 (2017) 1586-
NA Teanby, B Bézard, S Vinatier 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
An experimental investigation of blocking by partial barriers in a rotating baroclinic annulus
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (2017) 1-33
SD Marshall, PL Read
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
Young lunar volcanic features: Thermophysical properties and formation
ICARUS 290 (2017) 224-237
CM Elder, PO Hayne, JL Bandfield et al.
A precise optical transmission spectrum of the inflated exoplanet WASP-52b
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 470 (2017) 742-754
T Louden, PJ Wheatley, PGJ Irwin et al.
CASTAway: An asteroid main belt tour and survey
Advances in Space Research (2017)
NE Bowles, C Snodgrass, A Gibbings et al.
Ammonia in Jupiter's Troposphere From High-Resolution 5 mu m Spectroscopy
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 10838-10844
RS Giles, LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin 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.
Space weathering effects in Diviner Lunar Radiometer multispectral infrared measurements of the lunar Chr...
ICARUS 283 (2017) 343-351
PG Lucey, BT Greenhagen, E Song 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.
Toward the Analysis of JWST Exoplanet Spectra: Identifying Troublesome Model Parameters
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 850 (2017) ARTN 150
J-L Baudino, P Molliere, O Venot et al.
Beyond the Kepler/K2 bright limit: variability in the seven brightest members of the Pleiades
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 471 (2017) 2882-2901
TR White, BJS Pope, V Antoci 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.
Mapping Vinyl Cyanide and Other Nitriles in Titan's Atmosphere Using ALMA
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 154 (2017) ARTN 206
JC-Y Lai, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon et al.
The DREAMS experiment flown on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the d...
2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON METROLOGY FOR AEROSPACE (METROAEROSPACE) (2017) 249-255
C Bettanini, F Esposito, S Debei et al.
Forward and inverse kinetic energy cascades in Jupiter's turbulent weather layer
NATURE PHYSICS 13 (2017) 1135-+
RMB Young, PL Read
Composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) on Cassini
Applied Optics 56 (2017) 5274-5294
DE Jennings, FM Flasar, VG Kunde et al.
Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP 65426
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 605 (2017) ARTN L9
G Chauvin, S Desidera, A-M Lagrange et al.
Orbiting a binary SPHERE characterisation of the HD 284149 system
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 608 (2017) ARTN A106
M Bonavita, V D'Orazi, D Mesa et al.
A Low-mass Exoplanet Candidate Detected by K2 Transiting the Praesepe M Dwarf JS 183
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 153 (2017) ARTN 177
J Pepper, E Gillen, H Parviainen 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, Cambridge University Press (2017) 7
PL Read, B Galperin, SE Larsen et al.
The Global Circulation
in The Atmosphere and Climate of Mars, Cambridge University Press (2017) 9
JR Barnes, RM Haberle, RJ Wilson et al.
Observational evidence against strongly stabilizing tropical cloud feedbacks
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 1503-1510
IN Williams, RT Pierrehumbert
Linking the Climate and Thermal Phase Curve of 55 Cancri e
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 849 (2017) ARTN 152
M Hammond, RT Pierrehumbert
Independent evolution of stratospheric temperatures in Jupiter's northern and southern auroral regions fr...
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 5345-5354
JA Sinclair, GS Orton, TK Greathouse 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.
Reconstructing Climate from Glaciers
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45 (2017) 649-680
AN Mackintosh, BM Anderson, RT Pierrehumbert
A CONSISTENT RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS OF 10 HOT JUPITERS OBSERVED IN TRANSMISSION
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 834 (2017) ARTN 50
JK Barstow, S Aigrain, PGJ Irwin 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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