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Luke Booth
(he/him)
PhD Student/Research Assistant
Overview
I am PhD researcher based across Cardiff University's Astronomy and Instrumentation (AIG) and Astro groups, specialising in transiting exoplanets.
Publication
2024
- Booth, L., Sarkar, S., Griffin, M. and Edwards, B. 2024. Cool gaseous exoplanets: surveying the new frontier with twinkle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, article number: stae461. (10.1093/mnras/stae461)
2023
- Edwards, B. et al. 2023. Characterizing a world within the hot-neptune desert: Transit observations of LTT 9779 b with the Hubble space telescope/WFC3. Astronomical Journal 166(4), article number: 158. (10.3847/1538-3881/acea77)
Articles
- Booth, L., Sarkar, S., Griffin, M. and Edwards, B. 2024. Cool gaseous exoplanets: surveying the new frontier with twinkle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, article number: stae461. (10.1093/mnras/stae461)
- Edwards, B. et al. 2023. Characterizing a world within the hot-neptune desert: Transit observations of LTT 9779 b with the Hubble space telescope/WFC3. Astronomical Journal 166(4), article number: 158. (10.3847/1538-3881/acea77)
Research
To date I have completed research to refine exoplanetary ephemerides using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and I am currently working on simulations of exoplanetary atmospheres for ESAs upcoming medium class mission, ARIEL.
Here I am focussing on an as-yet understudied exoplanet population - cold gas giants - with the aim to understand how the physics that governs these planets differs from the hotter brethren and what differences, if any, exist between their formation and migration channels.
Research themes
Specialisms
- Exoplanets
- Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes