Dr Matthew Battley
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanets
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics2025
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, Brahm R, Fairnington TR, Ulmer-Moll S, Stassun KG, Suarez O, Guillot T, Hobson MJ, Winn JN, Kanodia S, Schlecker M, Butler RP, Crane JD, 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, Müller S, Knierim H, Santos NC, Adibekyan V, Parc L, Lendl M, Battley MP, Unger N, Chaverot G, Bayliss D, Dumusque X, Hawthorn F, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 693
01-01-2025
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, Billot N, Lendl M, Ehrenreich D, Chakraborty H, Günther MN, Hooton MJ, Alibert Y, Alonso R, Alves DR, Anderson DR, Apergis I, Armstrong D, 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, Grant D, Line M, Morello G, O’Steen R, Radica M, Rustamkulov Z, Stevenson KB, Turner JD, Alam MK, Anderson DR, Batalha NM, Battley MP, 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, Alves DR, Burleigh MR, Butler RP, Bouchy F, Battley MP, Bryant EM, Bieryla A, Crane JD, Collins KA, Casewell SL, Carleo I, Claringbold AB, 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, Baycroft TA, Boisse I, Bourrier V, Carmona A, Coleman GAL, Cameron AC, Cortés-Zuleta P, Delfosse X, Dransfield G, Duck A, Forveille T, French JR, et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 531 (4), 4085-4098.
06-06-2024
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, Osborn HP, Deline A, Faria JP, Claringbold AB, Chakraborty H, Stassun KG, Hellier C, Alves DR, Ziegler C, Anderson DR, Apergis I, Armstrong DJ, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Edp Sciences vol. 686
01-06-2024
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, Vines JI, Jenkins JS, Alves DR, Trouille L, Ulmer-Moll S, Bryant EM, Apergis I, Battley M, Bayliss D, Eisner NL, Gillen E, Goad MR, et al.
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society vol. 167 (5)
24-04-2024
TESS duotransit candidates from the Southern Ecliptic HemisphereHawthorn F, Gill S, Bayliss D, Osborn HP, Pelisoli I, Rodel T, Darnbrook KS, Wheatley PJ, Anderson DR, Apergis I, Battley MP, Burleigh MR, Casewell SL, Eigmüller P, Günther MN, Jenkins JS, Lendl M, Moyano M, Osborn A, Ramsay G, 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, Collins KA, Gillen E, Battley M, Triaud A, Hellier C, Seager S, Winn JN, Jenkins JM, Wohler B, Shporer A, Schwarz RP, Murgas F, et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 527 (1), 1146-1162.
12-09-2023
NGTS clusters survey – V. Rotation in the Orion star-forming complexSmith GD, Gillen E, Hodgkin ST, Alves DR, Anderson DR, Battley MP, Burleigh MR, Casewell SL, Gill S, Goad MR, Henderson BA, Jenkins JS, Kendall A, Moyano M, Ramsay G, Tilbrook RH, Vines JI, West RG and Wheatley PJ
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 523 (1), 169-188.
15-05-2023
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, Casewell SL, Gill S, Goad MR, Henderson BA, Kendall A, Ramsay G, Tilbrook RH and Wheatley PJ
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, Petit dit de la Roche DJM, Schlawin E, Wheatley PJ, Zieba S, Batalha NE, Damiano M, Goyal JM, Lendl M, Lothringer JD, Mukherjee S, Ohno K, Batalha NM, 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, Hoyer S, Gill S, Heidari N, Martin DV, Persson CM, Standing MR, Alibert Y, Alonso R, Anglada G, Asquier J, Bárczy T, Barrado D, 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, Mann AW, Newton ER, Dragomir D, Heitzmann A, Lowson N, Douglas ST, Battley M, Gillen E, Triaud A, Latham DW, Howell SB, Hartman JD, et al.
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society vol. 163 (6)
24-05-2022
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, Bayliss D, Burleigh MR, Bryant EM, Casewell SL, Costes JC, Eigmüller P, Gill S, Goad MR, Günther MN, Henderson BA, Jackman JAG, Jenkins JS, et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 513 (1), 420-438.
05-04-2022
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 and Pollacco D
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 511 (3), 4285-4304.
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
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, Foreman-Mackey D, Hedges C, Montet BT, Murphy SJ, Santerne A, Stassun KG, Stephan AP, Wang J, Benni P, Krushinsky V, Chazov N, Mishevskiy N, Ziegler C, Soubkiou A, 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, Florén H-G, Guterman P, Simon AE, Boisse I, Bonfanti A, Martin D, Santerne A, Salmon S, Standing MR, Van Grootel V, Wilson TG, Alibert Y, Alonso R, Escudé GA, Asquier J, 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, Battley MP, Bayliss D, Bouchy F, Bryant EM, Csizmadia S, Eigmüller P, Gill S, Gillen E, Grieves N, Günther MN, Henderson BA, Hodgkin ST, et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society
22-05-2021
Coupled electromagnetic-thermal analysis of roadway inductive power transfer pads within a model pavementAmirpour M, Kim S, Battley MP, Kelly P, Bickerton S and Covic G
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 and Pollacco D
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 503 (3), 4092-4104.
10-03-2021
2020
A search for young exoplanets in Sectors 1–5 of the TESS full-frame imagesBattley MP, Pollacco D and Armstrong DJ
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 496 (2), 1197-1216.
09-06-2020
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, Schlecker M, Díaz MR, Jenkins JS, Aguilera-Gomez C, Jenkins JM, Twicken JD, Collins KA, Lissauer J, Armstrong DJ, Adibekyan V, Barrado D, Barros SCC, et al.
Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 491 (2), 2982-2999.
19-11-2019