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We introduce the cosmological HYPER code based on an innovative hydro-particle-mesh (HPM) algorithm for efficient and rapid simulations of gas and dark matter. For the HPM algorithm, we update the approach of Gnedin & Hui (1998) to expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yizhou He , Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

In the era of photometry with space-based telescopes, such as CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite), JWST (James Webb Space Telescope), PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), and ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Sz. Kálmán , Sz. Csizmadia , L. M. Bernabó , R. Szabó , Gy. M. Szabó

The study of exoplanetary atmospheres is key to understand the differences between their physical, chemical and dynamical processes. Up to now, the bulk of atmospheric characterization analysis has been conducted on transiting planets. On…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Guilluy , A. Sozzetti , M. Brogi , A. S. Bonomo , P. Giacobbe , R. Claudi , S. Benatti

Absorption-line spectroscopy is a powerful tool used to estimate element abundances in the nearby as well as distant universe. The accuracy of the abundances thus derived is, naturally, limited by the accuracy of the atomic data assumed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Romas Kisielius , Varsha P. Kulkarni , Gary J. Ferland , Pavel Bogdanovich , Matt L. Lykins

Absorption line spectroscopy offers one of the best opportunities to constrain the properties of galactic outflows and the environment of the circumgalactic medium. Extracting physical information from line profiles is difficult, however,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Cody Carr , Leo Michel-Dansac , Jeremy Blaizot , Claudia Scarlata , Alaina Henry , Anne Verhamme

We present an open-source and validated chemical kinetics code for studying hot exoplanetary atmospheres, which we name VULCAN. It is constructed for gaseous chemistry from 500 to 2500 K using a reduced C-H-O chemical network with about 300…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Shang-Min Tsai , James R. Lyons , Luc Grosheintz , Paul B. Rimmer , Daniel Kitzmann , Kevin Heng

Any future detection of the calcium monohydroxide radical (CaOH) in stellar and exoplanetary atmospheres will rely on accurate molecular opacity data. Here, we present the first comprehensive molecular line list of CaOH covering the \A--\X\…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Alec Owens , Alexander Mitrushchenkov , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

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),…

We present new Rosseland and Planck mean opacity tables relevant to the shallow interiors and atmospheres of giant planets. The tables span metallicities from 0.31 to 50 times solar, temperatures from 100 - 6000 K, and pressures from 1e-6 -…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Louis Siebenaler , Yamila Miguel

We aimed to measure the H2O and dust production rates in C/2006 W3 (Christensen) with the Herschel Space Observatory at a heliocentric distance of ~ 5 AU. We have searched for emission in the H2O and NH3 ground-state rotational transitions…

EChOSim is the end-to-end time-domain simulator of the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) space mission. EChOSim has been developed to assess the capability EChO has to detect and characterize the atmospheres of transiting…

Current observations of the atmospheres of close-in exoplanets are predominantly obtained with two techniques: low-resolution spectroscopy with space telescopes and high-resolution spectroscopy from the ground. Although the observables…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 M. Brogi , M. Line , J. Bean , J. -M. Désert , H. Schwarz

Photoevaporation in exoplanet atmospheres is thought to contribute to the shaping of the small planet radius valley. Escaping atmospheres have been detected in transmission across a variety of exoplanet types, from hot Jupiters to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Riley Rosener , Michael Zhang , Jacob L. Bean

The discovery of the near infrared windows into the Venus deep atmosphere has enabled the use of remote sensing techniques to study the composition of the Venus atmosphere below the clouds. In particular, water vapor absorption lines can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeremy Bailey

We present a comprehensive analysis of a broad band spectral line survey of the Orion Kleinmann-Low nebula (Orion KL), one of the most chemically rich regions in the Galaxy, using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory.…

Spectroscopic observations of exoplanets are crucial to infer the composition and properties of their atmospheres. HD 189733b is one of the most extensively studied exoplanets and is a corner stone for hot Jupiter models. In this paper, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicolas Crouzet , Peter R. McCullough , Drake Deming , Nikku Madhusudhan

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is the closest planetary nebulae. Therefore, it is an ideal template for photochemical studies at small spatial scales in planetary nebulae. We aim to study the spatial distribution of the atomic and the…

We report an upper limit of 9 x 10^{12} cm-2 on the column density of water in the translucent cloud along the line of sight toward HD 154368. This result is based upon a search for the C-X band of water near 1240 \AA carried out using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marco Spaans , David Neufeld , Stephen Lepp , Gary J. Melnick , John Stauffer

Understanding water deuterium fractionation is important for constraining the mechanisms of water formation in interstellar clouds. Observations of HDO and H$_2^{18}$O transitions were carried out towards the high-mass star-forming region…

Aims. The derivation of spectroscopic parameters for M dwarf stars is very important in the fields of stellar and exoplanet characterization. The goal of this work is the creation of an automatic computational tool, able to derive quickly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 A. Antoniadis-Karnavas , S. G. Sousa , E. Delgado-Mena , N. C. Santos , G. D. C. Teixeira , V. Neves