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Prof. Patrick Irwin

Professor of Planetary Physics

Research theme

  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Exoplanet atmospheres
  • Exoplanets and Stellar Physics
  • Planetary atmosphere observation analysis
  • Solar system
patrick.irwin@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)72083
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 306
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NEMESIS
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I'm a University Lecturer in this department, working on remote sensing of planetary atmospheres. I have been a co-investigator on a number of spacecraft missions, such as Cassini/CIRS, Venus Express/VIRTIS and Rosetta/VIRTIS and I'm also involved with ground-based observations of the giant planets with telescopes such as IRTF, Gemini, UKIRT and VLT. My main research interests at present are the study of the gas giants, especially the ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) and also exoplanets.

Research interests

Planetary Atmospheres
Radiative transfer and retrievals

Selected publications

Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus’s atmosphere

Nature Astronomy Nature Publishing Group 2:2018 (2018) 420-427
Patrick Irwin, Daniel Toledo Carrasco, Ryan Garland, N Teanby, L Fletcher, GS Orton, B Bezard

2.5-D retrieval of atmospheric properties from exoplanet phase curves: Application to WASP-43b observations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP)
Patrick GJ Irwin, Vivien Parmentier, Jake Taylor, Jo Barstow, Suzanne Aigrain, Graham KH Lee, Ryan Garland

Latitudinal variation in the abundance of methane (CH4) above the clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE Narrow Field Mode Observations

Icarus Elsevier 331 (2019) 69-82
Patrick Irwin, D Toledo Carrasco, A Braude, R Bacon, P Weilbacher, N Teanby, L Fletcher, G Orton

Analysis of gaseous ammonia (NH3) absorption in the visible spectrum of Jupiter - Update

Icarus Elsevier 321 (2018) 572-582
Patrick Irwin, Neil Bowles, Ashwin Braude, Ryan Garland, Simon Calcutt, PA Coles, J Tennyson
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