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
Oscar Barragan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Jean-Loup Baudino

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Graham Lee

Postdoctoral Researcher - Bernoulli Fellow
Xianyu Tan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Daniel Toledo Carrasco

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
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
Alvaro Menduina

Student
Jake Taylor

Graduate Student
Victor Trees

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

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.
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.
Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 621 (2019) ARTN A125
I Bonati, T Lichtenberg, DJ Bower et al.
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part I: Jet spin-up in a dry atmosphere
Icarus (2019)
RMB Young, PL Read, Y Wang
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.
Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part II: Passive ammonia and water cycles
Icarus (2019)
RMB Young, PL Read, Y Wang
Magma ascent in planetesimals: Control by grain size
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 507 (2019) 154-165
T Lichtenberg, T Keller, RE Katz et al.
Modeling the Angular Dependence of Emissivity of Randomly Rough Surfaces
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2019)
TJ Warren, NE 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.
Spectral characterization of analog samples in anticipation of OSIRIS-REx's arrival at Bennu
ICARUS 319 (2019) 701-723
KLD Hanna, DL Schrader, EA Cloutis 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
Climate impacts of cultured meat and beef cattle
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Frontiers Media S.A. (2019)
J LYNCH, R PIERREHUMBERT
A BROAD-BAND SILICON MICROSEISMOMETER WITH 0.25 NG/RTHZ PERFORMANCE
2018 IEEE MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) (2018) 113-116
WT Pike, LM 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.
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.
MKID digital readout tuning with deep learning
ASTRONOMY AND COMPUTING 23 (2018) 60-71
R Dodkins, S Mahashabde, K O'Brien et al.
Full-Band Signal Extraction from Sensors in Extreme Environments: The NASA InSight Microseismometer
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL 18 (2018) 9382-9392
AE Stott, C Charalambous, TJ Warren 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.
A Chorus of the WindsOn Saturn!
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 123 (2018) 1007-1011
PL Read
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.
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
Editorial: Topical Collection on Venus
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 214 (2018) UNSP 128
B Bezard, CT Russell, T Satoh 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.
Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models. Part II
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 144 (2018) 2558-2576
PL Read, F Tabataba-Vakili, Y Wang et al.
Jupiter's auroral-related stratospheric heating and chemistry II
ICARUS 300 (2018) 305-326
JA Sinclair, GS Orton, TK Greathouse 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.
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.
Planets, candidates, and binaries from the CoRoT/Exoplanet programme: the CoRoT transit catalogue
Astronomy and Astrophysics Springer Verlag (2018)
M Deleuil, S Aigrain, C Moutou et al.
Wave-mean Flow Interactions in the Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Planets
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 869 (2018) ARTN 65
M Hammond, RT Pierrehumbert
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.
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
GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY VII 10702 (2018) UNSP 1070296
F Laurent, D Boudon, J Kosmalski et al.
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