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Atmospheric retrieval determines the properties of an atmosphere based on its measured spectrum. The low signal-to-noise ratio of exoplanet observations require a Bayesian approach to determine posterior probability distributions of each…

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

Atmospheric retrievals (AR) of exoplanets typically rely on a combination of a Bayesian inference technique and a forward simulator to estimate atmospheric properties from an observed spectrum. A key component in simulating spectra is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Timothy D. Gebhard , Daniel Angerhausen , Björn S. Konrad , Eleonora Alei , Sascha P. Quanz , Bernhard Schölkopf

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable the search for and characterization of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres in the habitable zone via transmission spectroscopy. However, relatively little work has been done to use solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Jacob Lustig-Yaeger , Victoria S. Meadows , David Crisp , Michael R. Line , Tyler D. Robinson

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

New-generation spectrographs dedicated to the study of exoplanetary atmospheres require a high accuracy in the atmospheric models to better interpret the input spectra. Thanks to space missions, the observed spectra will cover a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Tiziano Zingales , Aurélien Falco , William Pluriel , Jérémy Leconte

Atmospheric retrievals of exoplanet transmission spectra allow constraints on the composition and structure of the day-night terminator region. Such retrievals in the past have typically assumed one-dimensional temperature structures which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Matthew C. Nixon , Nikku Madhusudhan

This research introduces an innovative application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to tackle the intricate challenges of radiative transfer (RT) modeling in exoplanetary atmospheres, with a special focus on efficiently handling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 David Dahlbüdding , Karan Molaverdikhani , Barbara Ercolano , Tommaso Grassi

Exploring exoplanets has transformed our understanding of the universe by revealing many planetary systems that defy our current understanding. To study their atmospheres, spectroscopic observations are used to infer essential atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Flavio Giobergia , Alkis Koudounas , Elena Baralis

Transmission spectroscopy is one of the premier methods used to probe the temperature, composition, and cloud properties of exoplanet atmospheres. Recent studies have demonstrated that the multidimensional nature of exoplanet atmospheres --…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Ryan J. MacDonald , Nikole K. Lewis

We present the open-source pyratbay framework for exoplanet atmospheric modeling, spectral synthesis, and Bayesian retrieval. The modular design of the code allows the users to generate atmospheric 1D parametric models of the temperature,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Patricio E. Cubillos , Jasmina Blecic

It has been shown that spectroscopy of transiting extrasolar planets can potentially provide a wealth of information about their atmospheres. Herein, we set up the inverse problem in spectroscopic retrieval. We use non-linear optimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Line , X. Zhang , G. Vaisht , P. Chen , V. Natraj , P. Chen , Y. L. Yung

Retrieving the physical parameters from spectroscopic observations of exoplanets is key to understanding their atmospheric properties. Exoplanetary atmospheric retrievals are usually based on approximate Bayesian inference and rely on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Malavika Vasist , François Rozet , Olivier Absil , Paul Mollière , Evert Nasedkin , Gilles Louppe

Current observational data of exoplanets are providing increasing detail of their 3D atmospheric structures. As characterisation efforts expand in scope, the need to develop consistent 3D radiative-transfer methods becomes more pertinent as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Elspeth K. H. Lee , Jake Taylor , Simon L. Grimm , Jean-Loup Baudino , Ryan Garland , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Kenneth Wood

Thermal emission spectra provide key insights into the atmospheric composition and especially the temperature structure of an exoplanet. With broader wavelength coverage, sensitivity and higher resolution, JWST has enabled robust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Tonmoy Deka , Liton Majumdar , Tasneem Basra Khan , Swastik Dewan , Priyankush Ghosh , Debayan Das , Mithun Patra

Inverse techniques are used to extract information about an exoplanet's atmosphere. These techniques are prone to biased results if the appropriate forward model is not used. One assumption used in a forward model is to assume that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Jake Taylor

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…

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

Considering the relatively high precision that will be reached by future observatories, it has recently become clear that one dimensional (1D) atmospheric models, in which the atmospheric temperature and composition of a planet are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Aurélien Falco , Tiziano Zingales , William Pluriel , Jérémy Leconte

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