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
Rupert Dodkins

Graduate Student
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Ryan Garland

Graduate student
Mark Hammond

Graduate student
Andrea Alejandra Hidalgo Valadez

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
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

Wave number selection in the presence of noise: Experimental results
Chaos American Institute of Physics (2018)
D Zhilenko, O Krivonosova, M Gritsevich 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.
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.
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.
Descent rate models of the synchronization of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by the annual cycle in tropi...
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences American Meteorological Society (2018)
K Rajendran, I 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 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.
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.
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 (2018)
D Toledo Carrasco, P Irwin, N Teanby et al.
Ice-shelf damming in the glacial Arctic Ocean
CRYOSPHERE 11 (2017) 1745-1765
J Nilsson, M Jakobsson, C Borstad et al.
Effects of varying environmental conditions on emissivity spectra of bulk lunar soils
ICARUS 283 (2017) 326-342
KLD Hanna, BT Greenhagen, PWR III et al.
Robust, open-source removal of systematics in Kepler data
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 471 (2017) 759-769
S Aigrain, H Parviainen, S Roberts et al.
New Low-mass Eclipsing Binary Systems in Praesepe Discovered by K2
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 849 (2017)
E Gillen, LA Hillenbrand, TJ David et al.
Pinning down the mass of Kepler-10c: the importance of sampling and model comparison
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 471 (2017) L125-L130
V Rajpaul, LA Buchhave, S Aigrain
A rotating annulus driven by localized convective forcing: a new atmosphere-like experiment
EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS 58 (2017) ARTN 75
H Scolan, PL Read
Young lunar volcanic features: Thermophysical properties and formation
ICARUS 290 (2017) 224-237
CM Elder, PO Hayne, JL Bandfield et al.
CASTAway: An asteroid main belt tour and survey
Advances in Space Research (2017)
NE Bowles, C Snodgrass, A Gibbings et al.
Ammonia in Jupiter's Troposphere From High-Resolution 5 mu m Spectroscopy
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 10838-10844
RS Giles, LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin et al.
D/H Ratios on Saturn and Jupiter from Cassini CIRS
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 154 (2017) ARTN 178
JDR Pierel, CA Nixon, E Lellouch et al.
Space weathering effects in Diviner Lunar Radiometer multispectral infrared measurements of the lunar Chr...
ICARUS 283 (2017) 343-351
PG Lucey, BT Greenhagen, E Song et al.
Phase synchronization of baroclinic waves in a differentially heated rotating annulus experiment subject ...
Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) 27 (2017) 127001-
PL Read, X Morice-Atkinson, EJ Allen et al.
Latitudinal variability in Jupiter ' s tropospheric disequilibrium species: GeH4, AsH3 and PH3
ICARUS 289 (2017) 254-269
RS Giles, LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin
Toward the Analysis of JWST Exoplanet Spectra: Identifying Troublesome Model Parameters
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 850 (2017) ARTN 150
J-L Baudino, P Molliere, O Venot et al.
HST/WFC3 observations of Uranus' 2014 storm clouds and comparison with VLT/SINFONI and IRTF/Spex observat...
ICARUS 288 (2017) 99-119
PGJ Irwin, MH Wong, AA Simon et al.
Beyond the Kepler/K2 bright limit: variability in the seven brightest members of the Pleiades
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 471 (2017) 2882-2901
TR White, BJS Pope, V Antoci et al.
Mapping Vinyl Cyanide and Other Nitriles in Titan's Atmosphere Using ALMA
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 154 (2017) ARTN 206
JC-Y Lai, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon et al.
Ertel potential vorticity versus Bernoulli streamfunction on Mars
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 143 (2017) 37-52
TE Dowling, ME Bradley, J Du et al.
Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP 65426
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 605 (2017) ARTN L9
G Chauvin, S Desidera, A-M Lagrange et al.
Orbiting a binary SPHERE characterisation of the HD 284149 system
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 608 (2017) ARTN A106
M Bonavita, V D'Orazi, D Mesa et al.
A Low-mass Exoplanet Candidate Detected by K2 Transiting the Praesepe M Dwarf JS 183
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 153 (2017) ARTN 177
J Pepper, E Gillen, H Parviainen et al.
Jupiter's para-H-2 distribution from SOFIA/FORCAST and Voyager/IRIS 17-37 mu m spectroscopy
ICARUS 286 (2017) 223-240
LN Fletcher, I de Pater, WT Reach et al.
Observational evidence against strongly stabilizing tropical cloud feedbacks
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 1503-1510
IN Williams, RT Pierrehumbert
Disruption of Saturn's quasi-periodic equatorial oscillation by the great northern storm
NATURE ASTRONOMY 1 (2017) 765-770
LN Fletcher, S Guerlet, GS Orton et al.
Linking the Climate and Thermal Phase Curve of 55 Cancri e
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 849 (2017) ARTN 152
M Hammond, RT Pierrehumbert
Reconstructing Climate from Glaciers
ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, VOL 45 45 (2017) 649-680
AN Mackintosh, BM Anderson, RT Pierrehumbert
A CONSISTENT RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS OF 10 HOT JUPITERS OBSERVED IN TRANSMISSION
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 834 (2017) ARTN 50
JK Barstow, S Aigrain, PGJ Irwin et al.
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