Planets @ Oxford
@oxoplanets.bsky.social
The BlueSky account for the Exoplanet and Planetary Physics groups in Oxford. We study all types of planetary bodies inside and outside of the solar system. More info here: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/theme/exoplanets-and-planetary-physics
Interesting seminar today by Jonathan Grone, a PhD student at the University of Bern. He discusses how we can use polarisation to detect biosignatures. He also shows how space science is helping with medical science, the same polarisation techniques can detect cancerous tumours!
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Interesting seminar today by Jonathan Grone, a PhD student at the University of Bern. He discusses how we can use polarisation to detect biosignatures. He also shows how space science is helping with medical science, the same polarisation techniques can detect cancerous tumours!
Awesome seminar given by Vincent Yariv, a PhD student from the University of Grenoble. He discussed his research about mapping exoplanets at high resolution!
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Awesome seminar given by Vincent Yariv, a PhD student from the University of Grenoble. He discussed his research about mapping exoplanets at high resolution!
Great talk by @niamhk12.bsky.social on her talk at the Oxford Astrophysics Early Career Showcase! Teaching us all about supergranulation and the need to understand it in order to detect Earth twins!
October 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Great talk by @niamhk12.bsky.social on her talk at the Oxford Astrophysics Early Career Showcase! Teaching us all about supergranulation and the need to understand it in order to detect Earth twins!
Great talk by @exodransfield.bsky.social at the Oxford Astrophysics Early Career Showcase! Telling us all about observing exoplanets from Antarctica and her MANGOS survey, it’s still important to discover new planets!
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Great talk by @exodransfield.bsky.social at the Oxford Astrophysics Early Career Showcase! Telling us all about observing exoplanets from Antarctica and her MANGOS survey, it’s still important to discover new planets!
Today we had a great seminar given by Dr Jake Turner (@astrojaket.bsky.social) about how to use radio astronomy to study magnetic fields around exoplanets! Lots of interesting science, including potential observatories on the moon!
August 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today we had a great seminar given by Dr Jake Turner (@astrojaket.bsky.social) about how to use radio astronomy to study magnetic fields around exoplanets! Lots of interesting science, including potential observatories on the moon!
Despite some technical hitches, we had a very entertaining and informative Oxoplanets journal club by @exoscar.bsky.social and @astroklein.bsky.social, all about the mysteries surrounding AU Mic and its planets
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Despite some technical hitches, we had a very entertaining and informative Oxoplanets journal club by @exoscar.bsky.social and @astroklein.bsky.social, all about the mysteries surrounding AU Mic and its planets
Congratulations to former Oxoplanet member Dr Annabella Meech (@annabellameech.bsky.social) on her poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII, she presented her research studying the atmosphere of the exoplanet TrES-4b! You can read more about her work here: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
July 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Congratulations to former Oxoplanet member Dr Annabella Meech (@annabellameech.bsky.social) on her poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII, she presented her research studying the atmosphere of the exoplanet TrES-4b! You can read more about her work here: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Congratulations to DPhil student Marylou Fournier-Tondreau on her #ExoclimesVII poster presentation on her work concerning silicate weathering!
July 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Congratulations to DPhil student Marylou Fournier-Tondreau on her #ExoclimesVII poster presentation on her work concerning silicate weathering!
Congratulations to Luke Parker (@luke-parker.bsky.social) and Prof Jayne Birkby (@jaynebirkby.bsky.social) on their poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII! Showcasing the incredible high resolution spectroscopy work being conducted within Prof Birkby’s research group!
July 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Congratulations to Luke Parker (@luke-parker.bsky.social) and Prof Jayne Birkby (@jaynebirkby.bsky.social) on their poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII! Showcasing the incredible high resolution spectroscopy work being conducted within Prof Birkby’s research group!
Congratulations to Prof Tad Komacek (@tadkomacek.bsky.social) on his poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII. And more good news, he has now joined the SOC for @exoclimes.bsky.social!
July 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Congratulations to Prof Tad Komacek (@tadkomacek.bsky.social) on his poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII. And more good news, he has now joined the SOC for @exoclimes.bsky.social!
Congratulations to Dr Chloe Fisher (@astrochloe.bsky.social) on her #ExoclimesVII talk about the JWST spectra of the planets around TOI-125, wrapping up the end of day 4 of the conference!
July 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Congratulations to Dr Chloe Fisher (@astrochloe.bsky.social) on her #ExoclimesVII talk about the JWST spectra of the planets around TOI-125, wrapping up the end of day 4 of the conference!
Congratulations to Luke Parker @luke-parker.bsky.social on his poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII, you can read more about this technique in this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.08867
July 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Congratulations to Luke Parker @luke-parker.bsky.social on his poster presentation at #ExoclimesVII, you can read more about this technique in this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.08867
Congratulations to Dr Claire Guimond on her #ExoclimesVII talk about slightly carbon rich rocky exoplanets!
July 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Congratulations to Dr Claire Guimond on her #ExoclimesVII talk about slightly carbon rich rocky exoplanets!
Congratulations to DPhil student Harrison Nicholls (@nichollsh.bsky.social) on his #ExoclimesVII talk about the atmospheres of lava worlds! He uses his newly developed models (Proteus and AGNI) to study the atmosphere of L98-59d. You can read more about his work here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.02656
July 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Congratulations to DPhil student Harrison Nicholls (@nichollsh.bsky.social) on his #ExoclimesVII talk about the atmospheres of lava worlds! He uses his newly developed models (Proteus and AGNI) to study the atmosphere of L98-59d. You can read more about his work here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.02656
Shoutout to Dr Mark Hammond and DPhil student Alex McGinty on their work studying the phase curve of the hot rocky exoplanet TOI-561b! It is incredible that they are spectroscopically analysing three full orbits of the planet, something like this was impossible a few years ago #ExoclimesVII
July 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Shoutout to Dr Mark Hammond and DPhil student Alex McGinty on their work studying the phase curve of the hot rocky exoplanet TOI-561b! It is incredible that they are spectroscopically analysing three full orbits of the planet, something like this was impossible a few years ago #ExoclimesVII
Congratulations to Dr Jake Taylor (@astrojake.bsky.social) on his poster at #ExoclimesVII concerning the JWST NIRISS/SOSS transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ 357b. The paper is published and can be read here: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
July 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Congratulations to Dr Jake Taylor (@astrojake.bsky.social) on his poster at #ExoclimesVII concerning the JWST NIRISS/SOSS transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ 357b. The paper is published and can be read here: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Congratulations to Dr Tobias Meier (@tgmeier.bsky.social) on his #ExoclimesVII poster presentation about the lava world K2-141b!
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations to Dr Tobias Meier (@tgmeier.bsky.social) on his #ExoclimesVII poster presentation about the lava world K2-141b!
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Sophia Vaughan (@sophiavaughan.bsky.social) on her #ExoclimesVII talk about the weird desert world LTT-9779b! She used all 4 telescopes at VLT to observe the planet in reflected light, attempting to measure the cloud properties of the planet.
July 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Sophia Vaughan (@sophiavaughan.bsky.social) on her #ExoclimesVII talk about the weird desert world LTT-9779b! She used all 4 telescopes at VLT to observe the planet in reflected light, attempting to measure the cloud properties of the planet.
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Elsie Lee for her #ExoclimesVII review talk on Modelling Clouds in 3D. She has also created python tutorials where we can model these ourselves!
July 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Elsie Lee for her #ExoclimesVII review talk on Modelling Clouds in 3D. She has also created python tutorials where we can model these ourselves!
At ExoSLAM, we had Dr Chloe Fisher (@astrochloe.bsky.social) give a great lecture about machine learning and its application to studying the atmospheres of exoplanets #ExoclimesVII
July 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
At ExoSLAM, we had Dr Chloe Fisher (@astrochloe.bsky.social) give a great lecture about machine learning and its application to studying the atmospheres of exoplanets #ExoclimesVII
Final #ExoclimesVII talk of the day is given by former Oxoplanets member Prof. Vivien Parmentier, about hot Jupiters as a population. Much of the work was done by his former DPhil student, Dr Alex Roth.
July 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Final #ExoclimesVII talk of the day is given by former Oxoplanets member Prof. Vivien Parmentier, about hot Jupiters as a population. Much of the work was done by his former DPhil student, Dr Alex Roth.
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Lennart van Sluijs on his #ExoclimesVII talk on the ability to extract information from high-resolution models generated in 3D using a 1D retrieval framework. Planets are 3D, so we need to understand where the pitfalls lie in our 1D techniques.
July 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congratulations to former Oxoplanets member Dr Lennart van Sluijs on his #ExoclimesVII talk on the ability to extract information from high-resolution models generated in 3D using a 1D retrieval framework. Planets are 3D, so we need to understand where the pitfalls lie in our 1D techniques.
Congratulations to former Oxoplanet member Dr Namrah Habib on her #ExoclimesVII talk "Episodic Storms and Convection in Hydrogen Rich Atmospheres", it generated lots of questions!
July 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congratulations to former Oxoplanet member Dr Namrah Habib on her #ExoclimesVII talk "Episodic Storms and Convection in Hydrogen Rich Atmospheres", it generated lots of questions!
The end of the second day at ExoSLAM is a panel about navigating life as an early career scientist. It featured @astrochloe.bsky.social!
July 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The end of the second day at ExoSLAM is a panel about navigating life as an early career scientist. It featured @astrochloe.bsky.social!
Congrats to Dr Oscar Barragán (@exoscar.bsky.social) on his poster presentation at #EPRV6! His work covers how we can use multidimensional Gaussian processes on both spectroscopic and photometric stellar observations in order to determine mass measurements of planets around young stars!
July 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Congrats to Dr Oscar Barragán (@exoscar.bsky.social) on his poster presentation at #EPRV6! His work covers how we can use multidimensional Gaussian processes on both spectroscopic and photometric stellar observations in order to determine mass measurements of planets around young stars!