Data availability and requirements relevant for the Ariel space mission and other exoplanet atmosphere applications
Abstract
The goal of this white paper is to provide a snapshot of the data availability and data needs primarily for the Ariel space mission, but also for related atmospheric studies of exoplanets and brown dwarfs. It covers the following data-related topics: molecular and atomic line lists, line profiles, computed cross-sections and opacities, collision-induced absorption and other continuum data, optical properties of aerosols and surfaces, atmospheric chemistry, UV photodissociation and photoabsorption cross-sections, and standards in the description and format of such data. These data aspects are discussed by addressing the following questions for each topic, based on the experience of the "data-provider" and "data-user" communities: (1) what are the types and sources of currently available data, (2) what work is currently in progress, and (3) what are the current and anticipated data needs. We present a GitHub platform for Ariel-related data, with the goal to provide a go-to place for both data-users and data-providers, for the users to make requests for their data needs and for the data-providers to link to their available data. Our aim throughout the paper is to provide practical information on existing sources of data whether in databases, theoretical, or literature sources.
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@article{arxiv.2404.02188,
title = {Data availability and requirements relevant for the Ariel space mission and other exoplanet atmosphere applications},
author = {Katy L. Chubb and Séverine Robert and Clara Sousa-Silva and Sergei N. Yurchenko and Nicole F. Allard and Vincent Boudon and Jeanna Buldyreva and Benjamin Bultel and Athena Coustenis and Aleksandra Foltynowicz and Iouli E. Gordon and Robert J. Hargreaves and Christiane Helling and Christian Hill and Helgi Rafn Hrodmarsson and Tijs Karman and Helena Lecoq-Molinos and Alessandra Migliorini and Michaël Rey and Cyril Richard and Ibrahim Sadiek and Frédéric Schmidt and Andrei Sokolov and Stefania Stefani and Jonathan Tennyson and Olivia Venot and Sam O. M. Wright and Rosa Arenales-Lope and Joanna K. Barstow and Andrea Bocchieri and Nathalie Carrasco and Dwaipayan Dubey and Oleg Egorov and Antonio García Muñoz and Ehsan and Gharib-Nezhad and Leonardos Gkouvelis and Fabian Grübel and Patrick Gerard Joseph Irwin and Antonín Knížek and David A. Lewis and Matt G. Lodge and Sushuang Ma and Zita Martins and Karan Molaverdikhani and Giuseppe Morello and Andrei Nikitin and Emilie Panek and Miriam Rengel and Giovanna Rinaldi and Jack W. Skinner and Giovanna Tinetti and Tim A. van Kempen and Jingxuan Yang and Tiziano Zingales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02188},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
58 pages, published in RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI). The authors welcome feedback: corresponding author emails can be found as footnotes on page 2