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
Detection and characterisation of a 106-day transiting Jupiter: TOI-2449 b/NGTS-36 bUlmer-Moll S Gill S Brahm R Claringbold A Lendl M Al Moulla K Anderson D Battley M et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 703
01-11-2025
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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