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Direct imaging of widely separated exoplanets from space will obtain their reflected light spectra and measure their atmospheric properties, and small and temperate planets will be the focus of the next generation telescopes. In this work,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Mario Damiano , Renyu Hu

With the rapid developments in the exoplanet field, more and more terrestrial exoplanets are being detected. Characterising their atmospheres using transit observations will become a key datum in the quest for detecting an Earth-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fei Yan , Robert A. E. Fosbury , Monika G. Petr-Gotzens , Gang Zhao , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Yujuan Liu , Enric Pallé

We present the first secondary eclipse and phase curve observations for the highly eccentric hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b in the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 \mu m bands of the Spitzer Space Telescope. The 3.6 and 4.5 \mu m data sets span an entire…

We have measured transit times for HD 189733b passing in front of its bright (V = 7.67) chromospherically active and spotted parent star. Nearly continuous broadband optical photometry of this system was obtained with the MOST…

In this work we present Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 micron secondary eclipse observations of five new cool (<1200 K) transiting gas giant planets: HAT-P-19b, WASP-6b, WASP-10b, WASP-39b, and WASP-67b. We compare our measured eclipse depths to the…

Extremely low-density exoplanets are tantalizing targets for atmospheric characterization because of their promisingly large signals in transmission spectroscopy. We present the first analysis of the atmosphere of the lowest-density gas…

PLATO is designed to detect Earth-sized exoplanets around solar-type stars and to measure their radii with accuracy better than \(2\%\) via the transit method. Charge transfer inefficiency (CTI), a by-product of radiation damage to CCDs,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Shaunak Mishra , Reza Samadi , Diane Bérard

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…

Here, I present the community with exoTEDRF (EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework; formerly known as supreme-SPOON), an end-to-end pipeline for data reduction and light curve analysis of time series observations (TSOs) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Michael Radica

We present observations of seven transits and seven eclipses of the transiting planet system HD 189733 taken with Spitzer IRAC at 8 microns. We use a new correction for the detector ramp variation with a double-exponential function. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 E. Agol , N. B. Cowan , H. A. Knutson , D. Deming , J. H. Steffen , G. W. Henry , D. Charbonneau

Thermal emission spectra of exoplanets provide constraints on the chemical compositions, pressure-temperature (P-T) profiles, and energy transport in exoplanetary atmospheres. Accurate inferences of these properties rely on the robustness…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-20 Siddharth Gandhi , Nikku Madhusudhan

Neptune-size exoplanets are less studied as characterizing their atmospheres presents challenges due to their relatively small radius and atmospheric scale height. As the most common outcome of planet formation, these planets are crucial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Dwaipayan Dubey , Liton Majumdar , Charles Beichman , Geoffrey A. Blake , Gautam Vasisht , Thomas Henning

To address the the problem of calibration of instrument systematics in transit light curves, we present the Python package ExoTiC-ISM. Transit spectroscopy can reveal many different chemical components in exoplanet atmospheres, but such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-16 Iva Laginja , Hannah R. Wakeford

We present ground-based measurements of the transmission and emission spectra of the hot-Jupiter WASP-19b in nine spectroscopic channels from 1.25 to 2.35 microns. The measurements are based on the combined analysis of time-series…

High-resolution Doppler spectroscopy provides an avenue to study the atmosphere of both transiting and non-transiting planets. This powerful method has also yielded some of the most robust atmospheric detections to date. Currently,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 S. M. Matthews , C. A. Watson , E. J. W. de Mooij , T. R. Marsh , M. Brogi , S. R. Merritt , K. W. Smith , D. Steeghs

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…

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a medium-class mission belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision programme. The mission payload is composed of 26 telescopes and cameras which will observe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 M. Rotundo , A. Leoni , L. Serafini , C. Del Vecchio Blanco , D. Davalle , D. Vangelista , M. Focardi , R. Cosentino , S. Pezzuto , G. Giusi , D. Biondi , L. Fanucci

HAT-P-20b is a giant exoplanet that orbits a metal-rich star. The planet itself has a high total density, suggesting that it may also have a high metallicity in its atmosphere. We analyze two eclipses of the planet in each of the 3.6- and…

Here we present the analysis of multi-epoch secondary eclipse observations of HD 189733b and HD 209458b as a probe of temporal variability in the planetary climate using both Spitzer channels 1 and 2 (3.6 and 4.5 um). Constraining temporal…

Ground-based telescopes equipped with state-of-the-art spectrographs are able to obtain high-resolution transmission and emission spectra of exoplanets that probe the structure and composition of their atmospheres. Various atomic and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 R. Allart , C. Lovis , L. Pino , A. Wyttenbach , D. Ehrenreich , F. Pepe