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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…

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…

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In this paper we introduce PERTURB-c, a correlation-aware framework for interpreting black box regression models with one-dimensional structured inputs. We demonstrate this framework on a simulated case study with machine learning based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jools D. Clarke , Gordon Yip , Nikolaos Nikolaou

This brief review focuses on methods and applications of modeling exoplanetary atmospheres. We discuss various kinds of state of the art self-consistent and retrieval models in 1D and multi-D with a focus on open questions and short- and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Jonathan J. Fortney , Joanna K. Barstow , Nikku Madhusudhan

Techniques to retrieve the atmospheric properties of exoplanets via direct observation of their reflected light have often been limited in scope due to computational constraints imposed by the forward-model calculations. We have developed a…

We explore the efficacy of machine learning (ML) in characterizing exoplanets into different classes. The source of the data used in this work is University of Puerto Rico's Planetary Habitability Laboratory's Exoplanets Catalog (PHL-EC).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-24 Suryoday Basak , Surbhi Agrawal , Snehanshu Saha , Abhijit Jeremiel Theophilus , Kakoli Bora , Gouri Deshpande , Jayant Murthy

Exoplanetary atmospheric retrieval refers to the inference of atmospheric properties of an exoplanet given an observed spectrum. The atmospheric properties include the chemical compositions, temperature profiles, clouds/hazes, and energy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Nikku Madhusudhan

Atmospheric retrievals (AR) characterize exoplanets by estimating atmospheric parameters from observed light spectra, typically by framing the task as a Bayesian inference problem. However, traditional approaches such as nested sampling are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Timothy D. Gebhard , Jonas Wildberger , Maximilian Dax , Daniel Angerhausen , Sascha P. Quanz , Bernhard Schölkopf

Given the widespread availability of grids of models for stellar atmospheres, it is necessary to recover intermediate atmospheric models by means of accurate techniques that go beyond simple linear interpolation and capture the intricacies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 C. Westendorp Plaza , A. Asensio Ramos , C. Allende Prieto

Electron temperature (Te) is an important parameter governing space weather in the upper atmosphere, but has historically been underexplored in the space weather machine learning literature. We present CLARE, a machine learning model for…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Michael Liang , Blake DeHaas , Naomi Maruyama , Xiangning Chu , Takumi Abe , Koh-Ichiro Oyama

Recent researches have shown the increasing use of machine learn-ing methods in geography and urban analytics, primarily to extract features and patterns from spatial and temporal data using a supervised approach. Researches integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Stephen Law , Mateo Neira

We present the first tests of a new method, the Correlated Component Analysis (CCA) based on second-order statistics, to estimate the mixing matrix, a key ingredient to separate astrophysical foregrounds superimposed to the Cosmic Microwave…

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A key goal of exoplanet spectroscopy is to measure atmospheric properties, such as abundances of chemical species, in order to connect them to our understanding of atmospheric physics and planet formation. In this new era of high-quality…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Matthew C. Nixon , Luis Welbanks , Peter McGill , Eliza M. -R. Kempton

We apply various unsupervised machine learning methods for phase classification to investigate the finite-temperature phase diagram of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model in two dimensions. Using only particle occupation snapshots from Monte…

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The discovery of exoplanets has expanded our understanding of planetary systems and opened new avenues for astronomical research. In this study, we present a machine learning (ML) framework for exoplanet identification using a time-series…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Reihaneh Karimi , Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr , Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei

Inferring the properties of exoplanets from their atmospheres, while confronting low resolution and low signal-to-noise in the context of the quantities we want to derive, poses rigorous demands upon the data collected from observation.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Theresa Fisher , Hyunju Kim , Camerian Millsaps , Michael Line , Sara Imari Walker

The information content of crystalline materials becomes astronomical when collective electronic behavior and their fluctuations are taken into account. In the past decade, improvements in source brightness and detector technology at modern…

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

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