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PyTransport constitutes a straightforward code written in C++ together with Python scripts which automatically edit, compile and run the C++ code as a Python module. It has been written for Unix-like systems (OS X and Linux). Primarily the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-25 David J. Mulryne , John W. Ronayne

This paper is to introduce an online tool for the prediction of exoplanet transit light curves. Small telescopes can readily capture exoplanet transits under good weather conditions when the combination of a bright star and a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Peter Beck , Luke Robson , Mark Gallaway , Hugh R. A. Jones , David Campbell

One of the obstacles in the search for exoplanets via transits is the large number of candidates that must be followed up, few of which ultimately prove to be exoplanets. Any method that could make this process more efficient by somehow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Tingley , P. D. Sackett

The photometric transit method has been the most effective method to detect and characterize exoplanets as several ground-based as well as space-based survey missions have discovered thousands of exoplanets using this method. With the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Suman Saha , Sujan Sengupta

Following the widespread practice of exoplanetary transit simulations, various presumed components of an extrasolar system can be examined in numerically simulated transits, including exomoons, rings around planets, and the deformation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Szilárd Kálmán , Gyula M. Szabó , Csaba Kiss

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

"exoplanet" is a toolkit for probabilistic modeling of astronomical time series data, with a focus on observations of exoplanets, using PyMC3 (Salvatier et al., 2016). PyMC3 is a flexible and high-performance model-building language and…

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

PyExoCross is a Python adaptation of the ExoCross Fortran application, PyExoCross is designed for postprocessing the huge molecular line lists generated by the ExoMol project and other similar initiatives such as the HITRAN and HITEMP…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Jingxin Zhang , Jonathan Tennyson , Sergei N. Yurchenko

Deep learning techniques have been well explored in the transiting exoplanet field; however, previous work mainly focuses on classification and inspection. In this work, we develop a novel detection algorithm based on a well proven object…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Kaiming Cui , Junjie Liu , Fabo Feng , Jifeng Liu

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Carter , Jennifer C. Yee , Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Joshua N. Winn

The last decade has witnessed a rapid growth of the field of exoplanet discovery and characterisation. However, several big challenges remain, many of which could be addressed using machine learning methodology. For instance, the most…

Magboltz is widely used to compute electron transport properties in gas mixtures for detector applications. Its text-based workflow, however, can be a barrier for routine use, especially for users who are not already familiar with the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Michele Renda. Dan Andrei Ciubotaru , Călin Alexa

A machine learning technique with two-dimension convolutional neural network is proposed for detecting exoplanet transits. To test this new method, five different types of deep learning models with or without folding are constructed and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Pattana Chintarungruangchai , Ing-Guey Jiang

PyMieDAP (the Python Mie Doubling-Adding Programme) is a Python--based tool for computing the total, linearly, and circularly polarized fluxes of incident unpolarized sun- or starlight that is reflected by, respectively, Solar System…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Loïc Rossi , Javier Berzosa-Molina , Daphne M. Stam

We present a comparative analysis of observations of the selected exoplanet transits obtained at the Kyiv Comet station with the database of the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Kepler space telescopes. The light curves…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 M. Lobodenko , Ya. Pavlenko , I. Kulyk , A. Nahurna , M. Solomakha , O. Baransky

We derive solutions to transit light curves of exoplanets orbiting rapidly-rotating stars. These stars exhibit significant oblateness and gravity darkening, a phenomenon where the poles of the star have a higher temperature and luminosity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shashank Dholakia , Rodrigo Luger , Shishir Dholakia

This paper describes a simple activity for plotting and characterizing the light curve from an exoplanet transit event by way of differential photometry analysis. Using free digital imaging software, participants analyse a series of…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-09-04 Michael Cowley , Stephen Hughes

OrbDot is a Python package for studying the secular (long-term) evolution of exoplanet orbits from observational data. It employs nested sampling algorithms to fit evolutionary models to any combination of transit and eclipse mid-times,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Simone R. Hagey , Aaron Boley

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Carter , Jennifer C. Yee , Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Joshua N. Winn