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Recently, we introduced PLanetary Atmospheric Tool for Observer Noobs (PLATON), a Python package that calculates model transmission spectra for exoplanets and retrieves atmospheric characteristics based on observed spectra. We now expand…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Michael Zhang , Yayaati Chachan , Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Heather Knutson , Wenjun , Chang

In this study, 19 exoplanets were studied. Their photometric observations were obtained from the ETD. After performing the data reduction steps, its parameters were obtained through Exofast online software. Then calculated orbital…

We provide an example of an analysis to explore the optimization of observations of transiting hot jupiters with JWST to characterize their atmospheres, based on a simple three-parameter forward model. We construct expansive forward model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Alex R. Howe , Adam Burrows , Drake Deming

We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited imager, and low and medium-resolution integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Athira Unni , Steph Sallum , Peyton Benac , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Max Brodheim , Rosalie McGurk , Andy Skemer , William T. S. Deich

We introduce PLanetary Atmospheric Transmission for Observer Noobs (PLATON), a Python package that calculates transmission spectra for exoplanets and retrieves atmospheric characteristics based on observed spectra. PLATON is easy to install…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-05 Michael Zhang , Yayaati Chachan , Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Heather A. Knutson

Our ability to observe, detect, and characterize exoplanetary atmospheres has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 20 years, aided largely by developments in astronomical instrumentation; improvements in data analysis techniques; and an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Nikolai Piskunov , Adam D. Rains , Linn Boldt-Christmas

In this white paper, we assess the potential for JWST to characterize the atmospheres of super-Earth exoplanets, by simulating a range of transiting spectra with different masses and temperatures. Our results are based on a JWST simulator…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-10 Natasha Batalha , Jason Kalirai , Jonathan Lunine , Mark Clampin , Don Lindler

Strong variations of any kind and causes within a stellar light curve may prohibit the detection of transits, particularly of faint or shallow transits caused by small planets passing in front of the stellar disk. The success of future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Sascha Grziwa , Martin Pätzold

We present EXOFAST, a fast, robust suite of routines written in IDL which is designed to fit exoplanetary transits and radial velocity variations simultaneously or separately, and characterize the parameter uncertainties and covariances…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Eric Agol

Continuous data releases throughout the TESS primary mission will provide unique opportunities for the exoplanet community at large to contribute to maximizing TESS's scientific return via the discovery and validation of transiting planets.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Ryan Cloutier

The recently developed JWST Exoplanet Observation Simulator (JexoSim) simulates transit spectroscopic observations of exoplanets by JWST with each of its four instruments using a time-domain approach. Previously we reported the validation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Subhajit Sarkar , Nikku Madhusudhan

Escaping exoplanet atmospheres have been observed as deep transit signatures in a few specific spectral lines. Detections have been made in the hydrogen Ly-$\alpha$ line, the metastable helium line at 10830 {\AA} and some UV lines of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Dion Linssen , Antonija Oklopčić

Most future surveys designed to discover transiting exoplanets, including TESS and PLATO, will target bright (V<13) and nearby solar-type stars having a spectral type later than F5. In order to enhance the probability of identifying…

We present a database of well determined orbital parameters of exoplanets. This database comprises spectroscopic orbital elements measured for 427 planets orbiting 363 stars from radial velocity and transit measurements as reported in the…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe $\sim$150~million stars brighter than $T_{\rm mag} \approx 16$, with photometric precision from 60~ppm to 3~percent, enabling an array of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ryan J. Oelkers , Keivan G. Stassun

(Abridged) We discuss the design considerations of the EXPLORE (EXtra-solar PLanet Occultation REsearch) project, a series of transiting planet searches using 4-m-class telescopes to continuously monitor a single field of stars in the…

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

Building on prior FAST targeted and blind SETI campaigns toward 33 exoplanet systems, we introduce a wavelet-integrated search pipeline for narrowband technosignature candidates in radio dynamic spectra. At its core, the pipeline uses a…

The ExoMol database (www.exomol.com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic studies of hot atmospheres. While the data is intended for studies of exoplanets and other astronomical bodies, the dataset is widely applicable. The basic form…