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The presence of silicate material in known rings in the Solar System raises the possibility of ring systems existing even within the snow line -- where most transiting exoplanets are found. Previous studies have shown that the detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 Edan Rein , Aviv Ofir

To study the temperature in a gas subjected to electromagnetic radiations, one may use the Radiative Transfer equations coupled with the Navier-Stokes equations. The problem has 7 dimensions; however with minimal simplifications it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Francois Golse , Frederic Hecht , Olivier Pironneau , Pierre-Henri Tournier , Didier Smets

Atmospheric escape is thought to significantly influence the evolution of exoplanets, especially for sub-Jupiter planets on short orbital periods. Theoretical models predict that hydrodynamic escape could erode the atmospheres of such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Dion Linssen , Jim Shih , Morgan MacLeod , Antonija Oklopčić

To date, the ability for observers to reveal the composition or thermal structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere has rested on two techniques: high-contrast direct imaging and time-series observations of transiting exoplanets. The former is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Kevin B. Stevenson

The atmospheres of small, potentially rocky exoplanets are expected to cover a diverse range in composition and mass. Studying such objects therefore requires flexible and wide-ranging modeling capabilities. We present in this work the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 M. Scheucher , F. Wunderlich , J. L. Grenfell , M. Godolt , F. Schreier , D. Kappel , R. Haus , K. Herbst , H. Rauer

We have added to the Chroma+ suite of stellar atmosphere and spectrum modelling codes the ability to synthesize the exo-planet transit lightcurve for planets of arbitrary size up to 10% of the host stellar radius, and arbitrary planetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-26 C. Ian Short

We present a Python package, pwv_kpno, that provides models for the atmospheric transmission due to precipitable water vapor (PWV) at user specified sites. Using the package, ground-based photometric observations taken between $3,000$ and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Daniel Perrefort , W. M. Wood-Vasey , K. Azalee Bostroem , Kirk Gilmore , Richard Joyce , Charles Corson

The most productive tracer of exoplanetary atmospheric escape is the measurement of excess absorption in the near-infrared metastable helium triplet during transits. Atmospheric escape of a close-in planet's atmosphere plays a role in its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 C. Farret Jentink , V. Bourrier , Y. Carteret

Using high-resolution ground-based transmission spectroscopy to probe exoplanetary atmospheres is difficult due to the inherent telluric contamination from absorption in Earth's atmosphere. A variety of methods have previously been used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-23 Adam B. Langeveld , Nikku Madhusudhan , Samuel H. C. Cabot , Simon T. Hodgkin

Transmission spectroscopy is a key avenue for the near-term study of small-planet atmospheres and the most promising method when it comes to searching for atmospheres on temperate rocky worlds, which are often too cold for planetary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb

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,…

Context. Detailed characterizations of exoplanets are moving to the forefront of planetary science. Temperature is a key marker for understanding atmospheric physics and chemistry. Aims. We aim to retrieve temperatures of N2-O2 dominated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Franz Schreier , Steffen Städt , Fabian Wunderlich , Mareike Godolt , John Lee Grenfell

We assess broadband color filters for the two fast cameras on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations (PLATO) of stars space mission with respect to exoplanetary atmospheric characterization. We focus on Ultra Hot Jupiters and Hot Jupiters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 John Lee Grenfell , Mareike Godolt , Juan Cabrera , Ludmila Carone , Antonio Garcia Munoz , Daniel Kitzmann , Alexis Smith , Heike Rauer

High-resolution spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful avenue for atmospheric remote sensing of exoplanets. Recently, ESO commissioned the CRIRES+ high-resolution infrared spectrograph at VLT. CRIRES+ is a cross-dispersed spectrograph…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 Måns Holmberg , Nikku Madhusudhan

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

Context: High-resolution spectrographs fed by adaptive optics (AO) provide a unique opportunity to characterize directly imaged exoplanets. Observations with such instruments allow us to probe the atmospheric composition, spin rotation, and…

We present a methodology for acquiring and reducing transiting exoplanet light curves obtained with the OPTICAM instrument in the Observatorio Astron\'omico Nacional en la Sierra de San Pedro M\'artir (OAN-SPM). The OPTICAM sCMOS detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 S. Páez , Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew , L. H. Hebb

PetroFit is an open-source Python package, based on Astropy and Photutils, that can calculate Petrosian profiles and fit galaxy images. It offers end-to-end tools for making accurate photometric measurements, estimating morphological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-19 Robel Geda , Steven Crawford , Lucas R. Hunt , Matthew A. Bershady , Erik J. Tollerud , Solohery M. Randriamampandry

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

Hi-resolution spectroscopy (R > 25,000) has recently emerged as one of the leading methods to detect atomic and molecular species in the atmospheres of exoplanets. However, it has so far been lacking in a robust method to extract…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Matteo Brogi , Michael R Line