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We introduce BASE (Bayesian astrometric and spectroscopic exoplanet detection and characterisation tool), a novel program for the combined or separate Bayesian analysis of astrometric and radial-velocity measurements of potential exoplanet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-27 Tim Schulze-Hartung , Ralf Launhardt , Thomas Henning

Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Krishna Chamarthy

Over the past decade, exoplanet atmospheric characterization has became what some might call the cosmology of astronomy. In an attempt to extract and understand the weak planetary signals (a few percent down to a few tens of ppm times that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Patricio E. Cubillos

A new catalogue of extrasolar planets is presented by re-analysing a selection of published radial velocity data sets using EXOFIT (Balan & Lahav 2009). All objects are treated on an equal footing within a Bayesian framework, to give…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-20 Morgan D. J. Hollis , Sreekumar T. Balan , Greg Lever , Ofer Lahav

I present ExoIris, a user-friendly Python package for exoplanet transmission and emission spectroscopy. Unlike existing tools, ExoIris models two-dimensional spectrophotometric transit time series directly and supports the joint analysis of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Hannu Parviainen

We present the Variable Star PhasE Curve (VSPEC) Collection, a set of Python packages for simulating combined-light spectroscopic observations of 3-dimensional exoplanet atmospheres in the presence of stellar variability and inhomogeneity.…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Roman V. Baluev

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Carter , Jennifer C. Yee , Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Joshua N. Winn

We present a new open source python package, based on PyLightcurve and PyTorch, tailored for efficient computation and automatic differentiation of exoplanetary transits. The classes and functions implemented are fully vectorised, natively…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Mario Morvan , Angelos Tsiaras , Nikolaos Nikolaou , Ingo P. Waldmann

The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are currently engaged in an unprecedented era of discovery as recent missions have revealed thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars. While the Kepler Space Telescope mission has enabled most of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Kevin H. Knuth , Ben Placek , Daniel Angerhausen , Jennifer L. Carter , Bryan D'Angelo , Anthony D. Gai , Bertrand Carado

We announce the public release of PynPoint, a Python package that we have developed for analysing exoplanet data taken with the angular differential imaging observing technique. In particular, PynPoint is designed to model the point spread…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-15 Adam Amara , Sascha P. Quanz , Joel Akeret

We present PlanetPack, a new software tool that we developed to facilitate and standardize the advanced analysis of radial velocity (RV) data for the goal of exoplanets detection, characterization, and basic dynamical $N$-body simulations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Roman V. Baluev

We present Pandora, a new software to model, detect, and characterize transits of extrasolar planets with moons in stellar photometric time series. Pandora uses an analytical description of the transit light curve for both the planet and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-20 Michael Hippke , René Heller

Atmospheric retrievals on exoplanets usually involve computationally intensive Bayesian sampling methods. Large parameter spaces and increasingly complex atmospheric models create a computational bottleneck forcing a trade-off between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Tiziano Zingales , Ingo Peter Waldmann

The photometric transit method has been the most effective method to detect and characterize exoplanets as several ground-based as well as space-based survey missions have discovered thousands of exoplanets using this method. With the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Suman Saha , Sujan Sengupta

We present an open-source and validated chemical kinetics code for studying hot exoplanetary atmospheres, which we name VULCAN. It is constructed for gaseous chemistry from 500 to 2500 K using a reduced C-H-O chemical network with about 300…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Shang-Min Tsai , James R. Lyons , Luc Grosheintz , Paul B. Rimmer , Daniel Kitzmann , Kevin Heng

This paper describes a simple activity for plotting and characterizing the light curve from an exoplanet transit event by way of differential photometry analysis. Using free digital imaging software, participants analyse a series of…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-09-04 Michael Cowley , Stephen Hughes

The study of orbital resonances allows for the constraint of planetary properties of compact systems. We can predict a system's resonances by observing the orbital periods of the planets, as planets in or near mean motion resonance have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Mariah G. MacDonald , Michael S. Polania Vivas , Skylar D'Angiolillo , Ashley N. Fernandez , Tyler Quinn

Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanets' atmospheres and play an important role in setting the opacity and chemical inventory of the atmosphere. Understanding clouds is a critical step in interpreting exoplanets' spectroscopic data.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Helong Huang , Chris W. Ormel , Michiel Min

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