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Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

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Here we describe a Jupyter notebook demonstrating methods for the reduction and analysis of exoplanet transit observations taken with the WFC3/UVIS G280 grism. Released on Space Telescope's hst_notebooks GitHub repository, this notebook…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Munazza K. Alam , Frederick Dauphin , Amanda Pagul

While thousands of exoplanets have been confirmed, the known properties about individual discoveries remain sparse and depend on detection technique. To utilize more than a small section of the exoplanet dataset, tools need to be developed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Matthieu Laneuville , Nicholas Guttenberg

The study of complex many-body systems via analysis of the trajectories of the units that dynamically move and interact within them is a non-trivial task. The workflow for extracting meaningful information from the raw trajectory data is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-31 Simone Martino , Matteo Becchi , Andrew Tarzia , Daniele Rapetti , Giovanni M. Pavan

The characterization of exoplanet requires reliable determination of the fundamental parameters of their host stars. Spectral fitting plays an important role in this process. For the majority of stellar parameters matching synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Ansgar Wehrhahn , Nikolai Piskunov , Tanja Ryabchikova

In this study, ten exoplanets were studied. Their photometric observations were obtained from the ETD. After performing the data reduction steps, their parameters were obtained through Exofast online software. Then the total mass of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 A. Poro , M. Hedayatjoo , Y. Dashti , F. MohammadiZadeh , M. Hashemi , E. Rajaei , A. Kazemi , A. Sarostad , M. Nastaran , Z. Zarei , A. Dehghani Ghanatghestani

The new generation of observatories and instruments (VLT/ERIS, JWST, ELT) motivate the development of robust methods to detect and characterise faint and close-in exoplanets. Molecular mapping and cross-correlation for spectroscopy use…

Several studies have shown that stellar activity features, such as occulted and non-occulted starspots, can affect the measurement of transit parameters biasing studies of transit timing variations and transmission spectra. We present…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Ines G. Juvan , M. Lendl , P. E. Cubillos , L. Fossati , J. Tregloan-Reed , H. Lammer , E. W. Guenther , A. Hanslmeier

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

Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Krishna Chamarthy

We investigate the dynamical evolution of particles in the $\beta$ Pic system to determine likely formation pathways to the present-day observed exocomet populations. We aim to relate these results to similar studies recently carried out…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 K. P. Jaworska , H. J. Hoeijmakers

Over the past decade, exoplanet atmospheric characterization has became what some might call the cosmology of astronomy. In an attempt to extract and understand the weak planetary signals (a few percent down to a few tens of ppm times that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Patricio E. Cubillos

We use a cross-calibration of Hipparcos and Gaia DR2 astrometry for $\beta$ Pic to measure the mass of the giant planet $\beta$ Pic b $(13\pm3$ $M_{\rm Jup})$ in a comprehensive joint orbit analysis that includes published relative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Trent J. Dupuy , Timothy D. Brandt , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Brendan P. Bowler

Over 3 billion astronomical objects have been detected in the more than 22 million orthogonal transfer CCD images obtained as part of the Pan-STARRS1 $3\pi$ survey. Over 85 billion instances of those objects have been automatically detected…

In recent years, significant advances have been made in exoplanet and brown dwarf observations. By using state-of-the-art models, astronomers can determine properties of their atmospheres, such as temperatures, the presence of clouds, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sam de Regt , Siddharth Gandhi , Louis Siebenaler , Darío González Picos

We demonstrate the newly developed resource for exoplanet researchers - The Exoplanet Transit Database. This database is designed to be a web application and it is open for any exoplanet observer. It came on-line in September 2008. The ETD…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Stanislav Poddaný , Luboš Brát , Ondřej Pejcha

Direct imaging of exoplanets is crucial for advancing our understanding of planetary systems beyond our solar system, but it faces significant challenges due to the high contrast between host stars and their planets. Wavefront aberrations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Brandon Y. Feng , Rodrigo Ferrer-Chávez , Aviad Levis , Jason J. Wang , Katherine L. Bouman , William T. Freeman

Studying facial expressions is a notoriously difficult endeavor. Recent advances in the field of affective computing have yielded impressive progress in automatically detecting facial expressions from pictures and videos. However, much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jin Hyun Cheong , Eshin Jolly , Tiankang Xie , Sophie Byrne , Matthew Kenney , Luke J. Chang

We describe a new method to achieve point spread function (PSF) subtractions for high- contrast imaging using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that is applicable to both point sources or extended objects (disks). Assuming a library of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Remi Soummer , Laurent Pueyo , James Larkin

High-precision astrometry can identify exoplanets and measure their orbits and masses, while coronagraphic imaging enables detailed characterization of their physical properties and atmospheric compositions through spectroscopy. In a…