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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Dr Jake Taylor (he/him)

Glasstone Fellow

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Exoplanet atmospheres
  • Exoplanets and Stellar Physics
jake.taylor@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Awesome SOSS: atmospheric characterization of WASP-96 b using the JWST early release observations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 524:1 (2023) 817-834

Authors:

Jake Taylor, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks, Ryan J MacDonald, Jasmina Blecic, Maria Zamyatina, Alexander Roth, Jacob L Bean, Vivien Parmentier, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Adina D Feinstein, Néstor Espinoza, Björn Benneke, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Eva-Maria Ahrer
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Awesome SOSS: transmission spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 524:1 (2023) 835-856

Authors:

Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks, Néstor Espinoza, Jake Taylor, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Adina D Feinstein, Jayesh Goyal, Nicholas Scarsdale, Loïc Albert, Priyanka Baghel, Jacob L Bean, Jasmina Blecic, David Lafrenière, Ryan J MacDonald, Maria Zamyatina, Romain Allart1, Étienne Artigau, Natasha E Batalha, Neil James Cook, Nicolas B Cowan, Lisa Dang, René Doyon, Marylou Fournier-Tondreau, Doug Johnstone, Michael R Line, Sarah E Moran, Sagnick Mukherjee, Stefan Pelletier, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Geert Jan Talens, Joseph Filippazzo, Klaus Pontoppidan, Kevin Volk
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The Hazy and Metal-rich Atmosphere of GJ 1214 b Constrained by Near- and Mid-infrared Transmission Spectroscopy

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 951:2 (2023) 96

Authors:

Peter Gao, Anjali AA Piette, Maria E Steinrueck, Matthew C Nixon, Michael Zhang, Eliza M-R Kempton, Jacob L Bean, Emily Rauscher, Vivien Parmentier, Natasha E Batalha, Arjun B Savel, Kenneth E Arnold, Michael T Roman, Isaac Malsky, Jake Taylor
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Awesome SOSS: Atmospheric Characterisation of WASP-96 b using the JWST Early Release Observations

ArXiv 2305.16887 (2023)

Authors:

Jake Taylor, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks, Ryan J MacDonald, Jasmina Blecic, Maria Zamyatina, Alexander Roth, Jacob L Bean, Vivien Parmentier, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Adina D Feinstein, Néstor Espinoza, Björn Benneke, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Eva-Maria Ahrer
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A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

Nature Springer Nature 620 (2023) 67-71

Authors:

Eliza M-R Kempton, Michael Zhang, Jacob L Bean, Maria E Steinrueck, Anjali AA Piette, Vivien Parmentier, Isaac Malsky, Michael T Roman, Emily Rauscher, Peter Gao, Taylor J Bell, Qiao Xue, Jake Taylor, Arjun B Savel, Kenneth E Arnold, Matthew C Nixon, Kevin B Stevenson, Megan Mansfield, Sarah Kendrew, Sebastian Zieba, Elsa Ducrot, Achrène Dyrek, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Keivan G Stassun, Gregory W Henry, Travis Barman, Roxana Lupu, Matej Malik, Tiffany Kataria, Jegug Ih, Guangwei Fu, Luis Welbanks, Peter McGill

Abstract:

There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System, yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars [1]. Population statistics show that close-in planets in this size range bifurcate into two classes based on their radii [2, 3]. It is hypothesized that the group with larger radii (referred to as "sub-Neptunes") is distinguished by having hydrogen-dominated atmospheres that are a few percent of the total mass of the planets [4]. GJ 1214b is an archetype sub-Neptune that has been observed extensively using transmission spectroscopy to test this hypothesis [5-14]. However, themeasured spectra are featureless, and thus inconclusive, due to the presence of high-altitude aerosols in the planet's atmosphere. Here we report a spectroscopic thermal phase curve of GJ 1214b obtained with JWST in the mid-infrared. The dayside and nightside spectra (average brightness temperatures of 553 ± 9 and 437 ± 19 K, respectively) each show >3σ evidence of absorption features, with H2O as the most likely cause in both. The measured global thermal emission implies that GJ 1214b's Bond albedo is 0.51 ± 0.06. Comparison between the spectroscopic phase curve data and three-dimensional models of GJ 1214b reveal a planet with a high metallicity atmosphere blanketed by a thick and highly reflective layer of clouds or haze.
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