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
Rowan Curtis

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Rupert Dodkins

Graduate Student
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Ryan Garland

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
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 Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

Spatial and seasonal variations in C<inf>3</inf>H<inf>x</inf>hydrocarbon abundance in Titan's stratospher...
Icarus 317 (2019) 454-469
NA Lombardo, CA Nixon, RK Achterberg 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
Dust in brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets VI. Assessing seed formation across the brown dwarf and exop...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 614 (2018) ARTN A126
GKH Lee, J Blecic, C Helling
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
WT Pike, IM Standley, SB Calcutt et al.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 302 (2018) C
T Lichtenberg, GJ Golabek, CP Dullemond et al.
Late metal–silicate separation on the IAB parent asteroid
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 482 (2018) C
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.
A Chorus of the WindsOn Saturn!
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 123 (2018) 1007-1011
PL Read
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.
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 (2018)
G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston 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.
A hexagon in Saturn's northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 3564-
LN Fletcher, GS Orton, JA Sinclair et al.
Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 156 (2018) ARTN 114
J Krissansen-Totton, R Garland, P Irwin 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.
ELT HARMONI: Image slicer preliminary design
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 10702 (2018)
F Laurent, D Boudon, J Kosmalski et al.
Simulating the cloudy atmospheres of HD 209458 b and HD 189733 b with the 3D Met Office Unified Model
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 615 (2018) ARTN A97
S Lines, NJ Mayne, IA Boutle et al.
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.
Forward and inverse kinetic energy cascades in Jupiter's turbulent weather layer
NATURE PHYSICS 13 (2017) 1135-+
RMB Young, PL Read
The Atmospheric Dynamics of Venus
Space Science Reviews 212 (2017) 1541-1616
A Sánchez-Lavega, S Lebonnois, T Imamura et al.
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