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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

In this paper a homomorphic filtering scheme is proposed to improve the estimation of the planet/star radius ratio in astronomical transit signals. The idea is to reduce the effect of the short-term earth atmosphere variations. A two-step…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-03 Rodrigo Mahu , Patricio Rojo , Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi , Ismael Soto , Elyar Sedaghati , Nestor Becerra Yoma

Studying the atmospheres of exoplanets is one of the most promising ways to learn about distant worlds beyond our solar system. The composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere can provide critical insights into its geology and potential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Surangkhana Rukdee

Transiting exoplanets provide detailed access to their atmospheres, as the planet's signal can be effectively separated from that of its host star. For transiting exoplanets three fundamental atmospheric measurements are possible:…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 David K. Sing

We propose a new data analysis method for obtaining transmission spectra of exoplanet atmospheres and brightness variation across the stellar disk from transit observations. The new method is capable of recovering exoplanet atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Erik Aronson , Nikolai Piskunov

Planets can emit polarized thermal radiation, just like brown dwarfs. We present calculated thermal polarization signals from hot exoplanets, using an advanced radiative transfer code that fully includes all orders of scattering by gaseous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. J. de Kok , D. M. Stam , T. Karalidi

Exoplanets, and in particular hot ones such as hot Jupiters, require a very significant quantities of molecular spectroscopic data to model radiative transport in their atmospheres or to interpret their spectra. This data is commonly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 Christian Hill , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

Exoplanet transmission spectra provide rich information about the chemical composition, clouds and temperature structure of exoplanet atmospheres. Most exoplanet transmission spectra only span infrared wavelengths ($\gtrsim$ 1 $\rm{\mu…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Charlotte Fairman , Hannah R. Wakeford , Ryan J. MacDonald

We introduce the STAR-MELT Python package that we developed to facilitate the analysis of time-resolved emission line spectroscopy of young stellar objects. STAR-MELT automatically extracts, identifies and fits emission lines. We summarise…

We present the scientific performance results of PynPoint, our Python-based software package that uses principle component analysis to detect and estimate the flux of exoplanets in two dimensional imaging data. Recent advances in adaptive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adam Amara , Sascha Quanz

Forward modeling is often used to interpret substructures observed in protoplanetary disks. To ensure the robustness and consistency of the current forward modeling approach from the community, we conducted a systematic comparison of…

Today's most detailed characterization of exoplanet atmospheres is accessible via transit spectroscopy (TS). Detecting transiting exoplanets only yields their size, and it is thus standard to measure a planet's mass before moving towards…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Julien de Wit , Sara Seager , Prajwal Niraula

ArchNEMESIS is an open-source Python package developed for the analysis of remote sensing spectroscopic observations of planetary atmospheres. It is based on the widely used NEMESIS radiative transfer and retrieval tool, which has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Juan Alday , Joseph Penn , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Jonathon P. Mason , Jingxuan Yang

Transmission spectroscopy is the most widely used technique for studying exoplanet atmospheres. Since the planetary nightside faces the observer during a transit, highly irradiated giant exoplanets with warm nightsides emit thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 John A. Kappelmeier , Ryan J. MacDonald , Nikole K. Lewis

Modeling based on differentiable programming holds great promise for astronomy, enabling advanced techniques such as gradient-based posterior sampling and optimization. This paradigm motivated us to develop ExoJAX (Kawahara et al. 2022),…

High-resolution spectroscopy (R $\ge$ 20,000) at near-infrared wavelengths can be used to investigate the composition, structure, and circulation patterns of exoplanet atmospheres. However, up to now it has been the exclusive dominion of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. Brogi , P. Giacobbe , G. Guilluy , R. J. de Kok , A. Sozzetti , L. Mancini , A. S. Bonomo

Atmospheric temperatures are to be estimated from thermal emission spectra of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting M-stars as observed by current and future planned missions. To this end, a line-by-line radiative transfer code is used to generate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Franz Schreier , J. Lee Grenfell , Fabian Wunderlich , Thomas Trautmann

Ground-based high-resolution transmission spectroscopy has emerged as a promising technique for detecting chemicals in transiting exoplanetary atmospheres. Despite chemical inferences in several exoplanets and previous robustness studies, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Connor J. Cheverall , Nikku Madhusudhan , Måns Holmberg

The study of planetary atmospheres is crucial for understanding the origin, evolution, and processes that shape celestial bodies like planets, moons and comets. The interpretation of planetary spectra requires a detailed understanding of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Miriam Rengel , Jakob Adamczewski

We observed the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b (also known as HAT-P-32Ab) to determine its optical transmission spectrum by measuring the wavelength-dependent planet-to-star radius ratios in the region between 518 - 918 nm. We used the OSIRIS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 L. Nortmann , E. Palle , F. Murgas , S. Dreizler , N. Iro , A. Cabrera-Lavers