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
Ashwin Braude

Graduate student
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.
Advanced Net Flux Radiometer for the Ice Giants
Space Science Reviews Springer Verlag 216 (2020)
S Aslam, PG Irwin, G Quilligan et al.
Ice, Fire, or Fizzle: The Climate Footprint of Earth's Supercontinental Cycles
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2020)
R PIERREHUMBERT, A Lenardic, M Jellinek
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, CD Fortenbach et al.
The Oxford 3D thermophysical model with application to PROSPECT/Luna 27 study landing sites
Planetary and Space Science Elsevier (2020)
T WARREN, E Sefton-Nash, R Fisackerly et al.
Constraints on the shallow elastic and anelastic structure of Mars from InSight seismic data
NATURE GEOSCIENCE (2020)
P Lognonne, WB Banerdt, WT Pike 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.
Mapping the zonal structure of Titan’s northern polar vortex
Icarus Elsevier 337 (2019) 113441
J Sharkey, N Teanby, M Sylvestre 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
VM Rajpaul, S Aigrain, LA Buchhave
Initial results from the InSight mission on Mars
Nature Geoscience Springer Science and Business Media LLC (2020)
N Warner, N Teanby, J Tromp 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
The Snowball Stratosphere
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (2019) 11819-11836
DS Abbot, TA Shaw, RJ Graham
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 Informa UK Limited 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.
An 11 Earth-mass, Long-period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star
The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 158 (2019) 165-165
CD Fortenbach, CD Dressing, 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
S Aigrain, BJS Pope, NL Eisner et al.
Detection of Propadiene on Titan
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 881 (2019) ARTN L33
NA Lombardo, CA Nixon, TK Greathouse 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.
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, KLD Hanna, N 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-M Lagrange, C Babusiaux, A Grandjean 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
Constraining the properties of HD 206893 B A combination of radial velocity, direct imaging, and astromet...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 629 (2019) ARTN C1
A-M Lagrange, A Grandjean, C Babusiaux et al.
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.
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.
Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness.
Nature geoscience 12 (2019) 247-252
OS Barnouin, MG Daly, CM Ernst 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
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.
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 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.
Publisher Correction: No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations.
Nature 569 (2019) E2-
O Korablev, AC Vandaele, F Montmessin et al.
Publisher Correction: Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H2O and D/H observed by ExoMars Trace Gas ...
Nature 569 (2019) E1-
AC Vandaele, O Korablev, F Daerden 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
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series American Astronomical Society 245 (2019) 8-8
BJS Pope, WM Farr, TR White et al.
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