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
Neil Bowles

University Lecturer
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
Jean-Loup Baudino

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Graham Lee

Postdoctoral 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
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
Ashwin Braude

Graduate student
Eloïse Brown

Graudate Student
Andrew Bunting

Grad Student
Rowan Curtis

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Rupert Dodkins

Graduate Student
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Robert Graham

DPhil student in AOPP
Mark Hammond

Graduate student
Andrea Alejandra Hidalgo Valadez

Graduate student
Neil Lewis

Graduate Student
Chin-Min Liu

Graduate student
Alvaro Menduina

Student
Cherry Qian

Graduate student
Jake Taylor

Graduate Student
Susie Wright

Graduate student
Norbert Zicher

Graduate Student
Jon Temple

Technical Specialist - Flight Systems
Vinesh Rajpaul

Visiting researcher
Tim Lichtenberg

Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

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.
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.
Spectral characterization of analog samples in anticipation of OSIRIS-REx's arrival at Bennu
Icarus 319 (2019) 701-723
DM Applin, JP Mann, NE Bowles et al.
Probable detection of hydrogen sulphide (H<inf>2</inf>S) in Neptune's atmosphere
Icarus 321 (2019) 550-563
PGJ Irwin, D Toledo, R Garland et al.
Analysis of gaseous ammonia (NH<inf>3</inf>) 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
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.
Future of Venus Research and Exploration
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 214 (2018) UNSP 89
LS Glaze, CF Wilson, LV Zasova 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
IM Standley, SB Calcutt, AG Mukherjee
The DREAMS Experiment Onboard the Schiaparelli Module of the ExoMars 2016 Mission
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 214 (2018) UNSP 103
F Esposito, S Debei, C Bettanini et al.
Wave number selection in the presence of noise: Experimental results
Chaos 28 (2018)
D Zhilenko, O Krivonosova, M Gritsevich et al.
The ARIEL space mission
SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2018: OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND MILLIMETER WAVE 10698 (2018)
E Pascale, N Bezawada, J Barstow et al.
Meat consumption, health, and the environment.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 361 (2018)
HCJ Godfray, P Aveyard, T Garnett et al.
Isolation of Seismic Signal from InSight/SEIS-SP Microseismometer Measurements
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 214 (2018) UNSP 95
J Hurley, N Murdoch, NA Teanby 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.
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.
Exonephology: transmission spectra from a 3D simulated cloudy atmosphere of HD 209458b
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 481 (2018) 194-205
S Lines, J Manners, NJ Mayne 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.
Clouds and Hazes of Venus
Space Science Reviews Springer Nature America, Inc 214 (2018) 126
DV Titov, NI Ignatiev, K McGouldrick et al.
CASTAway: An asteroid main belt tour and survey
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH 62 (2018) 1998-2025
NE Bowles, C Snodgrass, A Gibbings et al.
A Universal Spin-Mass Relation for Brown Dwarfs and Planets
Astrophysical Journal 859 (2018)
A Scholz, K Moore, R Jayawardhana et al.
Impact splash chondrule formation during planetesimal recycling
Icarus Elsevier BV 302 (2018) 27-43
T Lichtenberg, GJ Golabek, CP Dullemond et al.
Late metal–silicate separation on the IAB parent asteroid
Earth and Planetary Science Letters Elsevier BV 482 (2018) 490-500
AC Hunt, DL Cook, T Lichtenberg 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.
Atmospheric Dynamics of Terrestrial Planets
in Handbook of Exoplanets, Springer International Publishing (2018) 1-31
PL Read, SR Lewis, GK Vallis
The Influence of a Substellar Continent on the Climate of a Tidally Locked Exoplanet
The Astrophysical Journal 854 (2018) 171-171
NT Lewis, FH Lambert, IA Boutle 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 proposed Caroline ESA M3 mission to a Main Belt Comet
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH 62 (2018) 1921-1946
GH Jones, J Agarwal, N Bowles 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
The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH 62 (2018) 1947-1976
C Snodgrass, GH Jones, H Boehnhardt et al.
Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models. Part I
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 144 (2018) 2537-2557
Y Wang, PL Read, F Tabataba-Vakili 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.
Global or Local Pure Condensible Atmospheres: Importance of Horizontal Latent Heat Transport
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 867 (2018) ARTN 54
F Ding, RT Pierrehumbert
Discovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 617 (2018) ARTN A44
M Keppler, M Benisty, A Mueller et al.
A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL
EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY 46 (2018) 135-209
G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston et al.
The GJ 504 system revisited. Combining interferometric, radial velocity, and high contrast imaging data
Astronomy and Astrophysics Springer Verlag (2018)
M Bonnefoy, K Perraut, A-M Lagrange 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.
Wave-mean Flow Interactions in the Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Planets
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 869 (2018) ARTN 65
M Hammond, RT Pierrehumbert
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.
ELT HARMONI: Image Slicer Preliminary Design
GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VII 10702 (2018) UNSP 1070296
F Laurent, D Boudon, J Kosmalski et al.
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