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We present new methodological features and physical ingredients included in the 1D radiative transfer code HELIOS, improving the hemispheric two-stream formalism. We conduct a thorough intercomparison survey with several established forward…

We present an open-source retrieval code named HELIOS-Retrieval (hereafter HELIOS-R), designed to obtain chemical abundances and temperature-pressure profiles from inverting the measured spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres. In the current…

We present an ultrafast opacity calculator that we name HELIOS-K. It takes a line list as an input, computes the shape of each spectral line and provides an option for grouping an enormous number of lines into a manageable number of bins.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Simon L. Grimm , Kevin Heng

We present EOS, a procedure for determining the Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) and top-of-atmosphere (TOA) albedo for a wide range of conditions expected to be present in the atmospheres of rocky planets with temperate conditions. EOS is…

General circulation models (GCMs) provide context for interpreting multi-wavelength, multi-phase data of the atmospheres of tidally locked exoplanets. In the current study, the non-hydrostatic THOR GCM is coupled with the HELIOS radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Russell Deitrick , Kevin Heng , Urs Schroffenegger , Daniel Kitzman , Simon L. Grimm , Matej Malik , João M. Mendonça , Brett M. Morris

Computing and using opacities is a key part of modeling and interpreting data of exoplanetary atmospheres. Since the underlying spectroscopic line lists are constantly expanding and currently include up to ~ 10^10 - 10^11 transition lines,…

We present a publicly available library of model atmospheres with radiative-convective equilibrium Pressure-Temperature ($P$-$T$) profiles fully consistent with equilibrium chemical abundances, and the corresponding emission and…

We present an improved, hybrid CPU-GPU atmospheric retrieval code, Helios-r2, which is applicable to medium-resolution emission spectra of brown dwarfs, in preparation for precision atmospheric spectroscopy in the era of the James Webb…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Daniel Kitzmann , Kevin Heng , Maria Oreshenko , Simon L. Grimm , Daniel Apai , Brendan P. Bowler , Adam J. Burgasser , Mark S. Marley

Aims. To create a retrieval framework which encapsulates the 3D nature of exoplanet atmospheres, and to apply it to observed emission phase curve and transmission spectra of hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-43b. Methods. We present our 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Katy L. Chubb , Michiel Min

We are entering the era of high-precision and high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanets. Such observations herald the need for robust self-consistent spectral models of exoplanetary atmospheres to investigate intricate atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-13 Siddharth Gandhi , Nikku Madhusudhan

High-resolution spectroscopy (R > 25,000) has opened new opportunities to characterize exoplanet atmospheres from the ground. By resolving individual lines in planetary emission and transmission spectra, one can sensitively probe the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ruizhe Wang , Ryan J. MacDonald , Neale P. Gibson , Nikole K. Lewis

Aims: We survey the transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b for line-absorption by metals and molecules at high spectral resolution, and elaborate on existing interpretations of the optical transmission spectrum observed with HST/STIS and WFC3.…

Improving upon our purely dynamical work, we present three-dimensional simulations of the atmospheric circulation on Earth-like (exo)planets and hot Jupiters using the GFDL-Princeton Flexible Modeling System (FMS). As the first steps away…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Heng , Dargan M. W. Frierson , Peter J. Phillipps

Recent progress in high-resolution transmission spectroscopy has offered new avenues in which to characterise the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets. High-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy allows for the unambiguous detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Cathal Maguire , Neale P. Gibson , Stevanus K. Nugroho , Swaetha Ramkumar , Mark Fortune , Stephanie R. Merritt , Ernst de Mooij

HYPERION is a new three-dimensional dust continuum Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code that is designed to be as generic as possible, allowing radiative transfer to be computed through a variety of three-dimensional grids. The main part of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Thomas P. Robitaille

The TIRAMISU code, a new program for computing on-the-fly non-LTE molecular spectra and opacities for solving self-consistent radiative transfer problems in exoplanet atmospheres, is presented. The ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20 b is used as a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Charles A. Bowesman , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Ahmed Al-Refaie , Jonathan Tennyson

What makes the study of exoplanetary atmospheres so hard is the extraction of its tiny signal from observations, usually dominated by telluric absorption, stellar spectrum and instrumental noise. The High Resolution Spectroscopy has emerged…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 M. C. Maimone , A. Chiavassa , J. Leconte

This and companion papers by Harrington et al. and Blecic et al. present the Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) code, an open-source, open-development package to characterize extrasolar-planet atmospheres. BART combines a…

We compare numerical methods for solving the radiative transfer equation in the context of the photoionization of intergalactic gaseous hydrogen and helium by a central radiating source. Direct integration of the radiative transfer equation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ka-Hou Leong , Avery Meiksin , Althea Lai , K. H. To

Producing optimized and accurate transmission spectra of exoplanets from telescope data has traditionally been a manual and labor-intensive procedure. Here we present the results of the first attempt to improve and standardize this…

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