Dr Matthew Battley
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanets
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Member of Dr Edward Gillen's Research Group
| Funder: | EPSRC - EU Scheme |
| Project: | (AENEAS) Age-enabled Exoplanet Science ERC-STG-2023-Gillen |
Research
Young exoplanets, Young stars, Exoplanet detection and Characterisation, Stellar activity, Exoplanetary formation and evolution
Interests
Research Interests:Currently I’m working on the detection and characterisation of new young exoplanet candidates, with a particular interest in building up an ‘age-ladder’ of how young exoplanets evolve through time. I have developed my own young-star specific detrend and search algorithm called “Young Star Detrending (YSD)”, which we are currently using to separate stellar activity from potential new young exoplanet candidates.
I have significant experience working with both photometric and spectroscopic instruments based in space and on ground, including TESS, CHEOPS, Kepler/K2, NGTS, Coralie, Gaia, HARPS/NIRPS and Gaia.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics2025
The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. III. Thirty More Giant PlanetsYee SW Winn JN Hartman JD Rodriguez JE Zhou G Latham DW Quinn SN Bieryla A et al.
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, American Astronomical Society vol. 280 (1)
01-09-2025
ATREIDESBourrier V Steiner M Castro-González A Armstrong DJ Attia M Gill S Timmermans M Fernandez J et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 701
01-09-2025
Three hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with significant heavy element massesFrensch YGC Bouchy F Curto GL Ulmer-Moll S Sousa SG Santos NC Stassun KG Watkins CN et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 700
01-08-2025
CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES)Fontanet E Udry S Ségransan D Figueira P Barroso JAA Akinsanmi B Attia M Battley M et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 699
01-07-2025
Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. VI. Confirmation of a Long-period Giant Planet Discovered with a Single TESS TransitEssack Z Dragomir D Dalba PA Battley MP Ciardi DR Collins KA Howell SB Jones MI et al.
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society vol. 170 (1)
25-06-2025
Discovery and Characterization of an Eccentric, Warm Saturn Transiting the Solar Analog TOI-4994Martínez RR Eastman JD Collins KA Rodriguez JE Charbonneau D Quinn SN Latham DW Ziegler C et al.
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society vol. 169 (2)
15-01-2025
Discovery of a cold giant planet and mass measurement of a hot super-Earth in the multi-planetary system WASP-132Grieves N Bouchy F Armstrong DJ Akinsanmi B Psaridi A Ulmer-Moll S Frensch YGC Helled R et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 693
01-01-2025
2024
NGTS-33b: a young super-Jupiter hosted by a fast-rotating massive hot starAlves DR Jenkins JS Vines JI Battley MP Lendl M Bouchy F Nielsen LD Gill S et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 536 (2), 1538-1554.
19-11-2024
Photo-dynamical characterisation of the TOI-178 resonant chainLeleu A Delisle J-B Delrez L Bryant EM Brandeker A Osborn HP Hara N Wilson TG et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 688
01-08-2024
A benchmark JWST near-infrared spectrum for the exoplanet WASP-39 bCarter AL May EM Espinoza N Welbanks L Ahrer E Alderson L Brahm R Feinstein AD et al.
Nature Astronomy, Springer Nature vol. 8 (8), 1008-1019.
10-07-2024
TOI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogueGill S Bayliss D Ulmer-Moll S Wheatley PJ Brahm R Anderson DR Armstrong D Apergis I et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 532 (2), 1444-1458.
05-07-2024
BEBOP V. Homogeneous stellar analysis of potential circumbinary planet hostsFreckelton AV Sebastian D Mortier A Triaud AHMJ Maxted PFL Acuña L Armstrong DJ Battley MP et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 531 (4), 4085-4098.
06-06-2024
BEBOP V. Homogeneous Stellar Analysis of Potential Circumbinary Planet HostsFreckelton AV Sebastian D Mortier A Triaud AHMJ Maxted PFL Acuña L Armstrong DJ Battley MP et al.
In Arxiv
05-06-2024
NGTS-30b/TOI-4862b: An ~1 Gyr old 98-day transiting warm Jupiter★★★Battley MP Collins KA Ulmer-Moll S Quinn SN Lendl M Gill S Brahm R Hobson MJ et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 686
01-06-2024
TOI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogueGill S Bayliss D Ulmer-Moll S Wheatley PJ Brahm R Anderson DR Armstrong D Apergis I et al.
In Arxiv
12-05-2024
Planet Hunters NGTS: New Planet Candidates from a Citizen Science Search of the Next Generation Transit Survey Public DataO’Brien SM Schwamb ME Gill S Watson CA Burleigh MR Kendall A Casewell SL Anderson DR et al.
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society vol. 167 (5)
24-04-2024
Planet Hunters NGTS: New Planet Candidates from a Citizen Science Search of the Next Generation Transit Survey Public DataO'Brien SM Schwamb ME Gill S Watson CA Burleigh MR Kendall A Anderson DR Vines JI et al.
In Arxiv
23-04-2024
NGTS-30 b/TOI-4862 b: An 1 Gyr old 98-day transiting warm JupiterBattley MP Collins KA Ulmer-Moll S Quinn SN Lendl M Gill S Brahm R Hobson MJ et al.
03-04-2024
TESS duotransit candidates from the Southern Ecliptic HemisphereHawthorn F Gill S Bayliss D Osborn HP Pelisoli I Rodel T Darnbrook KS Wheatley PJ et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 528 (2), 1841-1862.
23-01-2024
2023
Two mini-Neptunes transiting the adolescent K-star HIP 113103 confirmed with TESS and CHEOPSLowson N Zhou G Huang CX Wright DJ Edwards B Nabbie E Venner A Quinn SN et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 527 (1), 1146-1162.
12-09-2023
Two mini-Neptunes Transiting the Adolescent K-star HIP 113103 Confirmed with TESS and CHEOPSLowson N Zhou G Huang CX Wright DJ Edwards B Nabbie E Venner A Quinn SN et al.
In Arxiv
08-09-2023
NGTS clusters survey – V. Rotation in the Orion star-forming complexSmith GD Gillen E Hodgkin ST Alves DR Anderson DR Battley MP Burleigh MR Gill S et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 523 (1), 169-188.
15-05-2023
NGTS clusters survey $-$ V: Rotation in the Orion Star-forming ComplexSmith GD Gillen E Hodgkin ST Alves DR Anderson DR Battley MP Burleigh MR Casewell SL et al.
In Arxiv
08-05-2023
NGTS clusters survey IV. Search for Dipper stars in the Orion Nebular ClusterMoulton T Hodgkin ST Smith GD Briegal JT Gillen E Acton JS Battley MP Burleigh MR et al.
In Arxiv
19-04-2023
NGTS clusters survey – IV. Search for Dipper stars in the Orion Nebular ClusterMoulton T Hodgkin ST Smith GD Briegal JT Gillen E Acton JS Burleigh MR Goad MR et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 521 (2), 1700-1726.
10-03-2023
Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCamAhrer E-M Stevenson KB Mansfield M Moran SE Brande J Morello G Murray CA Nikolov NK et al.
Nature, Springer Nature vol. 614 (7949), 653-658.
09-01-2023
2022
The EBLM project – IX. Five fully convective M-dwarfs, precisely measured with CHEOPS and TESS light curvesSebastian D Swayne MI Maxted PFL Triaud AHMJ Sousa SG Olofsson G Beck M Billot N et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 519 (3), 3546-3563.
12-09-2022
A Mini-Neptune from TESS and CHEOPS Around the 120 Myr Old AB Dor Member HIP 94235Zhou G Wirth CP Huang CX Venner A Franson K Quinn SN Bouma LG Kraus AL et al.
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society vol. 163 (6)
24-05-2022
A Mini-Neptune from TESS and CHEOPS Around the 120 Myr Old AB Dor member HIP 94235Zhou G Wirth CP Huang CX Venner A Franson K Quinn SN Bouma LG Kraus AL et al.
In Arxiv
25-04-2022
Periodic stellar variability from almost a million NGTS light curvesBriegal JT Gillen E Queloz D Hodgkin S Acton JS Anderson DR Armstrong DJ Battley MP et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 513 (1), 420-438.
05-04-2022
Periodic stellar variability from almost a million NGTS light curvesBriegal JT Gillen E Queloz D Hodgkin S Acton JS Anderson DR Armstrong DJ Battley MP et al.
In Arxiv
29-03-2022
YOUNG Star detrending for Transiting Exoplanet Recovery (YOUNGSTER) – II. Using self-organizing maps to explore young star variability in sectors 1–13 of TESS dataBattley MP Armstrong DJ Pollacco D
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 511 (3), 4285-4304.
31-01-2022
YOUNG Star detrending for Transiting Exoplanet Recovery (YOUNGSTER) II:
Using Self-Organising Maps to explore young star variability in Sectors 1-13
of TESS dataBattley MP Armstrong DJ Pollacco D
31-01-2022
BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b -- the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocitiesNelson R
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP)
25-01-2022
2021
BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b -- the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocitiesTriaud AHMJ Standing MR Heidari N Martin DV Boisse I Santerne A Correia ACM Acuña L et al.
In Arxiv
13-12-2021
TOI-1259Ab – a gas giant planet with 2.7 per cent deep transits and a bound white dwarf companionMartin DV El-Badry K Hodžić VK Triaud AHMJ Angus R Birky J Hedges C Montet BT et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 507 (3), 4132-4148.
27-07-2021
The EBLM project – VIII. First results for M-dwarf mass, radius, and effective temperature measurements using CHEOPS light curvesSwayne MI Maxted PFL Triaud AHMJ Sousa SG Broeg C Guterman P Simon AE Boisse I et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 506 (1), 306-322.
12-06-2021
NGTS-19b: A high mass transiting brown dwarf in a 17-day eccentric orbitActon JS Goad MR Burleigh MR Casewell SL Breytenbach H Nielsen LD Smith G Anderson DR et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society
22-05-2021
NGTS-19b : A high mass transiting brown dwarf in a 17-day eccentric orbitActon JS Goad MR Burleigh MR Casewell SL Breytenbach H Nielsen LD Smith G Anderson DR et al.
In Arxiv
18-05-2021
Coupled electromagnetic-thermal analysis of roadway inductive power transfer pads within a model pavementAmirpour M Kim S Battley MP Kelly P
Applied Thermal Engineering, Elsevier vol. 189
01-05-2021
Revisiting the Kepler field with TESS: Improved ephemerides using TESS 2 min dataBattley MP Kunimoto M Armstrong DJ
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 503 (3), 4092-4104.
10-03-2021
Revisiting the Kepler field with TESS: Improved ephemerides using TESS
2min dataBattley MP Kunimoto M Armstrong DJ Pollacco D
04-03-2021
2020
A search for young exoplanets in Sectors 1–5 of the TESS full-frame imagesBattley MP Armstrong DJ
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 496 (2), 1197-1216.
09-06-2020
YOUNG Star detrending for Transiting Exoplanet Recovery (YOUNGSTER) --
I. A search for young exoplanets in Sectors 1-5 of the TESS Full-Frame-ImagesBattley MP Pollacco D Armstrong DJ
02-06-2020
2019
HD 213885b: a transiting 1-d-period super-Earth with an Earth-like composition around a bright ( V = 7.9) star unveiled by TESSEspinoza N Brahm R Henning T Jordán A Dorn C Rojas F Sarkis P Kossakowski D et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 491 (2), 2982-2999.
19-11-2019
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