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In the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the dramatic improvement in the spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres demands a corresponding leap forward in our ability to analyze them: atmospheric retrievals need to be performed on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Anna Lueber , Konstantin Karchev , Chloe Fisher , Matthias Heim , Roberto Trotta , Kevin Heng

We demonstrate the effectiveness of the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory mission concept for constraining the atmospheric properties of hot and warm gas giants and super Earths. Synthetic primary and secondary transit spectra for a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-29 Joanna K. Barstow , Neil E. Bowles , Suzanne Aigrain , Leigh N. Fletcher , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Ryan Varley , Enzo Pascale

The ultimate goal of the observation of nonthermal emission from astrophysical sources is to understand the underlying particle acceleration and evolution processes, and few tools are publicly available to infer the particle distribution…

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We present allesfitter, a public and open-source python software for flexible and robust inference of stars and exoplanets given photometric and radial velocity data. Allesfitter offers a rich selection of orbital and transit/eclipse…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Maximilian N. Günther , Tansu Daylan

Atmospheric retrieval of exoplanets from spectroscopic observations requires an extensive exploration of a highly degenerate and high-dimensional parameter space to accurately constrain atmospheric parameters. Retrieval methods commonly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Matthew C. Nixon , Nikku Madhusudhan

Spectroscopy of exoplanetary atmospheres has become a well established method for the characterisation of extrasolar planets. We here present a novel inverse retrieval code for exoplanetary atmospheres. TauRex (Tau Retrieval for Exoplanets)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ingo P. Waldmann , Giovanna Tinetti , Marco Rocchetto , Emma J. Barton , Sergey N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

The absorption and emission of light by exoplanet atmospheres encode details of atmospheric composition, temperature, and dynamics. Fundamentally, simulating these processes requires detailed knowledge of the opacity of gases within an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Arjun B. Savel , Megan Bedell , Eliza M. -R. Kempton

BayesPy is an open-source Python software package for performing variational Bayesian inference. It is based on the variational message passing framework and supports conjugate exponential family models. By removing the tedious task of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-08 Jaakko Luttinen

Thanks to the advances in modern instrumentation we have learned about many exoplanets that span a wide range of masses and composition. Studying their atmospheres provides insight into planetary origin, evolution, dynamics, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 D. Shulyak , M. Rengel , A. Reiners , U. Seemann , F. Yan

The advent of JWST has marked a new era in exoplanetary atmospheric studies, offering higher-resolution data and greater precision across a broader spectral range than previous space-based telescopes. Accurate analysis of these datasets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Tonmoy Deka , Tasneem Basra Khan , Swastik Dewan , Priyankush Ghosh , Debayan Das , Liton Majumdar

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

Gammapy is a Python package for high-level gamma-ray data analysis built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy. It enables us to analyze gamma-ray data and to create sky images, spectra and lightcurves, from event lists and instrument response…

I present a fast Python tool, SpectRes, for carrying out the resampling of spectral flux densities and their associated uncertainties onto different wavelength grids. The function works with any grid of wavelength values, including…

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PlanetPack, initially released in 2013, is a command-line software aimed to facilitate exoplanets detection, characterization, and basic dynamical $N$-body simulations. This paper presents the third major release of PlanetPack that…

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Spectral retrieval has long been a powerful tool for interpreting planetary remote sensing observations. Flexible, parameterised, agnostic models are coupled with inversion algorithms in order to infer atmospheric properties directly from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Joanna K. Barstow , Kevin Heng

Tau-REx (Tau Retrieval of Exoplanets) is a novel, fully Bayesian atmospheric retrieval code custom built for extrasolar atmospheres. In Waldmann et al. (2015) the transmission spectroscopic case was introduced, here we present the emission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ingo P. Waldmann , Marco Rocchetto , Giovanna Tinetti , Emma J. Barton , Sergey N. Yurchenko , Jonathan Tennyson

Transiting exoplanet parameter estimation from time-series photometry and Doppler spectroscopy is fundamental to study planets' internal structures and compositions. Here we present the code pyaneti, a powerful and user-friendly software…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. Barragán , D. Gandolfi , G. Antoniciello

Automated searches for strong gravitational lensing in optical imaging survey datasets often employ machine learning and deep learning approaches. These techniques require more example systems to train the algorithms than have presently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Robert Morgan , Brian Nord , Simon Birrer , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Jason Poh

Atmospheric characterisation of exoplanets from the ground is an actively growing field of research. In this context we have created the ATMOSPHERIX consortium: a research project aimed at characterizing exoplanets atmospheres using…