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
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
Joost Wardenier

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
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

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.
Mapping the zonal structure of Titan’s northern polar vortex
Icarus Elsevier 337 (2019) 113441
J Sharkey, N Teanby, M Sylvestre 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, SL Grimm, J Taylor et al.
The atmospheric circulation of ultra-hot Jupiters
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 886 (2019) 1-20
X Tan, T Komacek
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 and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 630 (2019) A91
J Alday, A Patrakeev, A Grigoriev 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.
The Pipeline for the ExoMars DREAMS Scientific Data Archiving
ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS XXVI 521 (2019) 108-111
P Schipani, L Marty, M Mannetta 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.
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 and Planetary Science Wiley 54 (2019)
EC Brown, KLD Hanna, N Bowles et al.
Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations
Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 621 (2019) A125
I Bonati, T Lichtenberg, DJ Bower 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, H Parviainen 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-
S García-Burillo, L Hogan, M Rodrigues 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...
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 874 (2019)
X Tan, AP Showman
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
A brightening of Jupiter’s auroral 7.80-μm CH4 emission during a solar-wind compression
Nature Astronomy Nature Research 3 (2019) 607-613
J Sinclair, G Orton, J Fernandes et al.
Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu
Nature Astronomy Springer Nature 3 (2019) 332-340
VE Hamilton, PR Christensen, MA Barucci et al.
Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis
Nature Astronomy Springer Nature 3 (2019) 341-351
DN Dellagiustina, MA Barucci, EB Bierhaus 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 Springer Nature 12 (2019) 242-246
S Clemett, K Thomas-Keprta, S Van Wal 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.
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, A Sanchez-Lavega, S Perez-Hoyos 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.
Spatial and seasonal variations in C_3/H_x hydrocarbon abundance in Titan's stratosphere from Cassini CIR...
Icarus 317 (2019) 454-469
NA Lombardo, CA Nixon, RK Achterberg 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.
The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observ...
Nature Communications Springer Nature 10 (2019) 1291
CK Maleszewski, MC Nolan, J-Y Li et al.
Modeling the angular dependence of emissivity of randomly rough surfaces
Journal of Geophysical Research American Geophysical Union 124 (2019) 585-601
T Warren, N Bowles, K Donaldson 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.
The unexpected surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu
Nature Springer Nature 568 (2019) 55-60
DS Lauretta, CA Bennett, SS Balram-Knutson et al.
The dynamic geophysical environment of (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx measurements
Nature Astronomy Springer Nature 3 (2019) 352-361
J Joseph, S Squyres, D Richardson 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.
Remote-sensing characterization of major Solar System bodies with the Twinkle space telescope
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems SPIE 5 (2019) 014006
B Edwards, S Lindsay, G Savini 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.
Climate impacts of cultured meat and beef cattle
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Frontiers Media 3 (2019) 5
J Lynch, R Pierrehumbert
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