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Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like events identified by the WASP pipeline have been vetted by…

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

The exploration of planetary bodies in our Solar system and beyond relies on the processing and interpretation of large, spatio-temporally inconsistent, and heterogeneous datasets. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) provide…

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

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

The study of exoplanetary atmospheres traditionally relies on forward models to analytically compute the spectrum of an exoplanet by fine-tuning numerous chemical and physical parameters. However, the high-dimensionality of parameter space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Marco Vetrano , Tiziano Zingales , G. Massimo Palma , Salvatore Lorenzo

Current endeavours in exoplanet characterisation rely on atmospheric retrieval to quantify crucial physical properties of remote exoplanets from observations. However, the scalability and efficiency of the technique are under strain with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-17 Kai Hou Yip , Quentin Changeat , Ahmed Al-Refaie , Ingo Waldmann

Interpreting the observations of exoplanet atmospheres to constrain physical and chemical properties is typically done using Bayesian retrieval techniques. Because these methods require many model computations, a compromise is made between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Francisco Ardévol Martínez , Michiel Min , Daniela Huppenkothen , Inga Kamp , Paul I. Palmer

We introduce a new machine learning based technique to detect exoplanets using the transit method. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have proven to be broadly applicable in various scientific research areas. We aim to exploit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhishek Malik , Benjamin P. Moster , Christian Obermeier

The new generation of observatories and instruments (VLT/ERIS, JWST, ELT) motivate the development of robust methods to detect and characterise faint and close-in exoplanets. Molecular mapping and cross-correlation for spectroscopy use…

Inferring atmospheric properties of exoplanets from observed spectra is key to understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability. Since traditional Bayesian approaches to atmospheric retrieval (e.g., nested sampling) are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Timothy D. Gebhard , Jonas Wildberger , Maximilian Dax , Annalena Kofler , Daniel Angerhausen , Sascha P. Quanz , Bernhard Schölkopf

The next generation of telescopes will yield a substantial increase in the availability of high-resolution spectroscopic data for thousands of exoplanets. The sheer volume of data and number of planets to be analyzed greatly motivate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Eyup B. Unlu

Observing exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy supplies detailed information on their atmospheric composition, physics, and chemistry. Prior to JWST, these observations were limited to a narrow wavelength range across the…

Transit spectroscopy is a powerful tool to decode the chemical composition of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. In this paper we focus on unsupervised techniques for analyzing spectral data from transiting exoplanets. We demonstrate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman

Atmospheric retrievals (AR) characterize exoplanets by estimating atmospheric parameters from observed light spectra, typically by framing the task as a Bayesian inference problem. However, traditional approaches such as nested sampling are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Timothy D. Gebhard , Jonas Wildberger , Maximilian Dax , Daniel Angerhausen , Sascha P. Quanz , Bernhard Schölkopf

Transmission spectroscopy is one of the most successful methods of learning about exoplanet atmospheres. The process of retrievals using transmission spectroscopy consists of creating numerous forward models and comparing them to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Agnibha Banerjee , Joanna K. Barstow , Carole A. Haswell , Stephen R. Lewis

Exoplanetary atmospheric retrieval refers to the inference of atmospheric properties of an exoplanet given an observed spectrum. The atmospheric properties include the chemical compositions, temperature profiles, clouds/hazes, and energy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Nikku Madhusudhan

Exoplanet transmission spectra provide rich information about the chemical composition, clouds and temperature structure of exoplanet atmospheres. Most exoplanet transmission spectra only span infrared wavelengths ($\gtrsim$ 1 $\rm{\mu…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Charlotte Fairman , Hannah R. Wakeford , Ryan J. MacDonald

Understanding planet formation requires robust population studies, which are designed to reveal trends in planet properties. In this work, we aim to determine if different methods for selecting populations of exoplanets for atmospheric…

With the development of ever-improving telescopes capable of observing exoplanet atmospheres in greater detail and number, there is a growing demand for enhanced 3D climate models to support and help interpret observational data from space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Alexander Plaschzug , Amit Reza , Ludmila Carone , Sebastian Gernjak , Christiane Helling