Check out our cool new paper on 2.5-D retrievals from exoplanet phase curves by Pat Irwin, coauthors Vivien Parmentier, Dr Jake Taylor, Suzanne Aigrain, Âströ❖Glee and Ryan Garland, + me of course! arxiv.org/abs/1909.03233

Sorry - still trying to catch up with 21st Century!

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And to round off the week, something very cool: Patrick Irwin has been using NEMESIS to simulate the view from atmospheric descent probes for Uranus and Venus! The Venus cloud structure model I developed for my thesis gets 15 minutes of fame. www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/2020/07/2…

Hi all - I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I enjoyed making them! With the help of lots of people!

Absolutely! Maarten Roos-Serote was instrumental in getting this production off the ground! Fantastic job!

Scientists led by Professor Patrick Irwin @OxfordAOPP explain why Uranus and Neptune are different colours. Read all about it: physics.ox.ac.uk/news/scientist…

Check out our new paper on haze and cloud in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune! Thanks to all my co-authors for their help in pulling this all together! physics.ox.ac.uk/news/scientist…

👀 Astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it Get the gist of the discovery in our #ESOCastLight video below. #BiteSizedAstronomy

Check out our new paper in Nature Astronomy on the spectral characterisation of a Dark Spot on Neptune.

For more information, the paper has been published with Springer Nature in Nature Astronomy and an online version can be found here: rdcu.be/dkjP6

Work led by Patrick Irwin @OxfordAOPP used careful characterisation of VLT visible spectra of #Uranus and #Neptune to explore their colours, revealing their subtle differences in blue hue, and an explanation for Uranus' apparent changes in average colour with Uranian season.

Patrick Irwin @OxfordAOPP And if you want a little more "behind the scenes" information on this study, Pat wrote an article for the Conversation that explains the process: theconversation.com/how-we-discove…

Fancy doing a planetary PhD (DPhil) in Oxford University's sub-department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics? We still have a studentship available! See the list of projects here: physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgrad…. Deadline is end of May.