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The upcoming Ristretto spectrograph is dedicated to the detection and analysis of exoplanetary atmospheres, with a primary focus on the temperate rocky world Proxima b. This scientific endeavor relies on the interplay of a high-contrast…

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Context. Clouds seem unavoidable in cool and dense environments, and hence, are necessary to explain observations of exoplanet atmospheres, most recently of WASP 96b with JWST. Understanding the formation of cloud condensation nuclei in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 J. P. Sindel , Ch. Helling , D. Gobrecht , K. L. Chubb , L. Decin

Earthshine observations offer a unique opportunity to study Earth as an exoplanet seen from the Moon. As the Sun-Earth-Moon geometry changes, Earth can be observed as a spatially unresolved exoplanet at different phase angles, providing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Giulia Roccetti , Michael F. Sterzik , Claudia Emde , Mihail Manev , Stefano Bagnulo , Julia V. Seidel

In the last decade ground based high resolution Doppler spectroscopy (HRS) has detected numerous species in transiting and non-transiting hot Jupiters, and is ideally placed for atmospheric characterisation of warm Neptunes and super…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Siddharth Gandhi , Matteo Brogi , Rebecca K. Webb

Eclipsing post-common envelope binaries are highly important for resolving the poorly understood, very short-lived common envelope phase. Most hot subdwarfs (sdO/Bs) are the bare He-burning cores of red giants which have lost almost all of…

Using a general circulation model with newly implemented cloud modeling, we investigate how radiative feedback can self-consistently shape condensate cloud distributions, temperatures, and fluxes in a hot Jupiter atmosphere. We apply a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Michael Roman , Emily Rauscher

Aims. To create a retrieval framework which encapsulates the 3D nature of exoplanet atmospheres, and to apply it to observed emission phase curve and transmission spectra of hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-43b. Methods. We present our 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Katy L. Chubb , Michiel Min

ISO [C II] 158 micron, [O I] 63 micron, and H_2 9 and 17 micron observations are presented of the reflection nebula Ced 201, which is a photon-dominated region illuminated by a B9.5 star with a color temperature of 10,000 K (a cool PDR). In…

We perform a homogeneous search for and analysis of optical occultations and phase variations of the most favorable ultra-short-period (USP) ($P<1$~d) sub-Neptunes ($R_{p}<4 R_{\oplus}$) observed by $\textit{Kepler}$ and K2, with the aim of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Vikash Singh , A. S. Bonomo , G. Scandariato , N. Cibrario , D. Barbato , L. Fossati , I. Pagano , A. Sozzetti

We present scope (Simulated CCD Observations for Photometric Experimentation), a Python package to create a forward model of telescope detectors and simulate stellar targets with motion relative to the CCD. The primary application of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Nicholas Saunders , Rodrigo Luger , Rory Barnes

Orbital phase-dependent variations in thermal emission and reflected stellar energy spectra can provide meaningful constraints on the climate states of terrestrial extrasolar planets orbiting M dwarf stars. Spatial distributions of water…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 E. T. Wolf , R. K. Kopparapu , J. Haqq-Misra

We present $Spitzer$/IRAC Ch1 and Ch2 monitoring of six brown dwarfs during 8 different epochs over the course of 20 months. For four brown dwarfs, we also obtained simulataneous $HST$/WFC3 G141 Grism spectra during two epochs and derived…

We present a systematic phase curve analysis of known transiting systems observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during year one of the primary mission. Using theoretical predictions for the amplitude of the planetary…

In recent years, surprise discoveries of pulsed emission from the Crab and Vela pulsars above 100 GeV have drawn renewed attention to this largely unexplored region of the energy range. In this paper, we discuss example light curves due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Christo Venter , Monica Barnard , Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Ultra-hot Jupiters are perfect targets for transmission spectroscopy. However, their atmospheres feature strong spatial variations in temperature, chemistry, dynamics, cloud coverage, and scale height. This makes transit observations at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Joost P. Wardenier , Vivien Parmentier , Michael R. Line , Elspeth K. H. Lee

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

Aims. We analyse unpublished Spitzer observations of the thermal phase-curve of WASP-121 b, a benchmark ultra-hot Jupiter. Methods. We adopted the wavelet pixel-independent component analysis technique to remove challenging instrumental…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Giuseppe Morello , Quentin Changeat , Achrène Dyrek , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Jonathan C. Tan

In recent years, it has become clear that a substantial fraction of transiting exoplanets have some form of aerosol present in their atmospheres. Transit spectroscopy - mostly of hot Jupiters, but also of some smaller planets - has provided…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Joanna K. Barstow

Upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations will allow us to study exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres in great detail. The physical interpretation of these upcoming high signal-to-noise observations requires precise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Sagnick Mukherjee , Natasha E. Batalha , Jonathan J. Fortney , Mark S. Marley

We introduce new functionality to treat fractal aggregate aerosol particles within the Virga cloud modeling framework. Previously, the open source cloud modeling code Virga (Batalha et al. 2025), the Python version of EddySed (Ackerman &…