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The two most successful methods for exoplanet detection rely on the detection of planetary signals in photometric and radial velocity time-series. This depends on numerical techniques that exploit the synergy between data and theory to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 Oscar Barragán , Suzanne Aigrain , Vinesh M. Rajpaul , Norbert Zicher

We describe a software package called VPLanet that simulates fundamental aspects of planetary system evolution over Gyr timescales, with a focus on investigating habitable worlds. In this initial release, eleven physics modules are included…

Context. In order to overcome the radial velocity (RV) precision barrier imposed by stellar variability, there has been a surge of software aimed at simulating and modeling these activity patterns. Aims. We present Analyzing Radial Velocity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 K. Al Moulla

The radial velocity (RV) method, also known as Doppler spectroscopy, is a powerful technique for exoplanet discovery and characterization. In recent years, progress has been made thanks to the improvements in the quality of spectra from new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Joseph Salzer , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Eric B. Ford , Lily L. Zhao

With dedicated exoplanet surveys underway for multiple extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) instruments, the near-future prospects of RV exoplanet science are promising. These surveys' generous time allocations are expected to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Arvind F. Gupta , Megan Bedell

The precise Doppler method for measuring stellar radial velocities (RV) is a fundamental technique in modern astronomy. This method records a star's spectrum and detects periodic Doppler shifts in its spectral features, which indicate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Trifon Trifonov

Extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) surveys usually require extensive observational baselines to confirm planetary candidates, making them resource-intensive. Traditionally, periodograms are used to identify promising candidate signals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Anoop Gavankar , Tanish Mittal , Joe Ninan , Shravan Hanasoge

Owing to technological advances, the number of exoplanets discovered has risen dramatically in the last few years. However, when trying to observe Earth analogs, it is often difficult to test the veracity of detection. We have developed a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Sahil Agarwal , Fabio Del Sordo , John S. Wettlaufer

Here we present juliet, a versatile tool for the analysis of transits, radial-velocities, or both. juliet is built over many available tools for the modelling of transits, radial-velocities and stochastic processes (here modelled as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Néstor Espinoza , Diana Kossakowski , Rafael Brahm

Studies of future space- and ground-based exoplanet surveys often rely on models of planetary systems to simulate instrument response, estimate scientific yields, perform trade analyses, and study efficient observation strategies. Until…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Christopher C. Stark

RadVel is an open source Python package for modeling Keplerian orbits in radial velocity (RV) time series. RadVel provides a convenient framework to fit RVs using maximum a posteriori optimization and to compute robust confidence intervals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Benjamin J. Fulton , Erik A. Petigura , Sarah Blunt , Evan Sinukoff

Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

We present EXOFAST, a fast, robust suite of routines written in IDL which is designed to fit exoplanetary transits and radial velocity variations simultaneously or separately, and characterize the parameter uncertainties and covariances…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Eric Agol

The detection of small exoplanets with the radial velocity (RV) technique is limited by various poorly known noise sources of instrumental and stellar origin. As a consequence, current detection techniques often fail to provide reliable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 S. Sulis , D. Mary , L. Bigot , M. Deleuil

petitRADTRANS (pRT) is a fast radiative transfer code used for computing emission and transmission spectra of exoplanet atmospheres, combining a FORTRAN back end with a Python based user interface. It is widely used in the exoplanet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Evert Nasedkin , Paul Mollière , Doriann Blain

Radial velocity surveys for extra-solar planets generally require substantial amounts of large telescope time in order to monitor a sufficient number of stars. Two of the aspects which can limit such surveys are the single-object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen R. Kane , Donald P. Schneider , Jian Ge

We present the next generation public exoplanet fitting software, EXOFASTv2. It is capable of fitting an arbitrary number of planets, radial velocity data sets, astrometric data sets, and/or transits observed with any combination of…

An R package SpatialPack that implements routines to compute point estimators and perform hypothesis testing of the spatial association between two stochastic sequences is introduced. These methods address the spatial association between…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Felipe Osorio , Ronny Vallejos , Francisco Cuevas

Among the group of extrasolar planets, transiting planets provide a great opportunity to obtain direct measurements for the basic physical properties, such as mass and radius of these objects. These planets are therefore highly important in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 András Pál