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I am a professor in the in the at the . I am also affiliated with our Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability.

Primary Research Interests:
I lead the and I am a founder member of the . Our wide field telescopes continuously scan millions of stars, searching for the tell-tail dip in brightness caused by a planet passing in front of its parent star. NGTS achieved first light in January 2015 and began full survey operations in February 2016. Our discoveries include NGTS-4b, a sub-Neptune in the Neptunian desertLink opens in a new window, and NGTS-11b, that was the first exoplanet confirmed from a TESS single-transit event. You can watch a brief introduction to NGTS on . WASP discovered over two hundred transiting exoplanets, all with precisely measured masses, making it the most successful ground-based project searching for such objects. Our early discoveries were rated among the top ten scientific discoveries of 2007 by . The WASP team received the group achievement award of the in 2010. I was interviewed on BBC local radio about our discovery of a possible carbon-rich exoplanet.

I am also interested in studing the atmospheric characteristics of exoplanets. Our results have included the first mapping of the wind velocities of an exoplanet, and the of close-in planets.

My background is in X-ray astronomy, including observations with NASA's and ESA's spacecraft. We recently detected the first X-rays from a white dwarf star due to accretion of planetary debris. You can check out early highlights of my X-ray progamme on the the sixth item on and the .

Publications list (via ADS): ,

Selected publications:

Cunningham, Wheatley et al. 2022, Nature 602, 219

West et al. 2019, MNRAS 486, 5094

Wheatley et al. 2018, MNRAS 475, 4476

Wheatley et al. 2017, MNRAS 465, L74

Louden & Wheatley 2015, ApJL 814, L24

Ehrenreich, Bourrier, Wheatley et al. 2015, Nature 522, 459

Lecavelier des Etangs, Bourrier, Wheatley et al. 2012, A&A 543, L4

Jackson, Davis & Wheatley 2012, MNRAS 422, 2024

Madhusudhan et al. 2011, Nature 469, 64

Triaud et al. 2010, A&A 524, 25

Davis & Wheatley 2009, MNRAS 396, 1012

Southworth, Wheatley & Sams 2007, MNRAS, 379, 11

Norton, Wheatley et al. 2007, A&A, 467, 785

Collier Cameron et al. 2006, MNRAS 375, 951

Pollacco et al. 2006, PASP 118, 1407.

The genome of the T4-type bacteriophage S-PM2 that infects the oceanic picoplankton Synechococcus
Mann, Clokie, Millard, Cook, Wilson, Wheatley, Letarov & Kirsch 2005. Journal of Bacteriology 187, 3188.

Baskill, Wheatley & Osborne 2005, MNRAS 357, 626

Brett, West & Wheatley 2004, MNRAS 353, 369

Wheatley, Mauche and Mattei 2003, MNRAS 345, 49

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Current teaching:

Tips for lab report writing

Past teaching:

PX437 Exoplanets

PX269 Galaxies (archived module page)

Write to:

Prof. Peter Wheatley,
Department of Physics,
University of 糖心TV,
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK

Contact Details:

Office: Milburn House, F46
Tel: +44 (0)247 657 4330
E-Mail:
p.j.wheatley(at)warwick.ac.uk

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