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We present CONAN (COde for exoplaNet ANalysis), an open-source Python package for comprehensive analyses of exoplanetary systems. It provides a unified Bayesian framework to simultaneously analyze diverse exoplanet datasets to derive global…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Babatunde Akinsanmi , Monika Lendl , Andreas Krenn

We present TransitFit, a package designed to fit exoplanetary transit light-curves. TransitFit offers multi-epoch, multi-wavelength fitting of multi-telescope transit data. TransitFit allows per-telescope detrending to be performed…

Theoretical studies have suggested using planetary infrared excess (PIE) to detect and characterize the thermal emission of transiting and non-transiting exoplanets, however the PIE technique requires empirical validation. Here we apply the…

The TESS follow-up of a large number of known transiting exoplanets provide unique opportunity to study their physical properties more precisely. Being a space-based telescope, the TESS observations are devoid of any noise component…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Suman Saha

Detecting exoplanet transits at X-ray wavelengths would provide a window into the effects of high energy irradiation on the upper atmospheres of planets. However, stars are relatively dim in the X-ray, making exoplanet transit detections…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Raven Cilley , George W. King , Lia Corrales

The direct characterization of exoplanetary systems with high contrast imaging is among the highest priorities for the broader exoplanet community. As large space missions will be necessary for detecting and characterizing exo-Earth twins,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Sasha Hinkley , Aarynn L. Carter , Shrishmoy Ray , Andrew Skemer , Beth Biller , Elodie Choquet , Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer , Stephanie Sallum , Brittany Miles , Niall Whiteford , Polychronis Patapis , Marshall D. Perrin , Laurent Pueyo , Glenn Schneider , Karl Stapelfeldt , Jason Wang , Kimberly Ward-Duong , Brendan P. Bowler , Anthony Boccaletti , Julien H. Girard , Dean Hines , Paul Kalas , Jens Kammerer , Pierre Kervella , Jarron Leisenring , Eric Pantin , Yifan Zhou , Michael Meyer , Michael C. Liu , Mickael Bonnefoy , Thayne Currie , Michael McElwain , Stanimir Metchev , Mark Wyatt , Olivier Absil , Jea Adams , Travis Barman , Isabelle Baraffe , Mariangela Bonavita , Mark Booth , Marta Bryan , Gael Chauvin , Christine Chen , Camilla Danielski , Matthew De Furio , Samuel M. Factor , Jonathan J. Fortney , Carol Grady , Alexandra Greenbaum , Thomas Henning , Markus Janson , Grant Kennedy , Matthew Kenworthy , Adam Kraus , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Ralf Launhardt , Cecilia Lazzoni , James Lloyd , Sebastian Marino , Mark Marley , Raquel Martinez , Christian Marois , Brenda Matthews , Elisabeth C. Matthews , Dimitri Mawet , Mark Phillips , Simon Petrus , Sascha P. Quanz , Andreas Quirrenbach , Julien Rameau , Isabel Rebollido , Emily Rickman , Matthias Samland , B. Sargent , Joshua E. Schlieder , Anand Sivaramakrishnan , Jordan M. Stone , Motohide Tamura , Pascal Tremblin , Taichi Uyama , Malavika Vasist , Arthur Vigan , Kevin Wagner , Marie Ygouf

This paper is to introduce an online tool for the prediction of exoplanet transit light curves. Small telescopes can readily capture exoplanet transits under good weather conditions when the combination of a bright star and a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Peter Beck , Luke Robson , Mark Gallaway , Hugh R. A. Jones , David Campbell

The presence of silicate material in known rings in the Solar System raises the possibility of ring systems existing even within the snow line -- where most transiting exoplanets are found. Previous studies have shown that the detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 Edan Rein , Aviv Ofir

The two most successful methods for exoplanet detection rely on the detection of planetary signals in photometric and radial velocity time-series. This depends on numerical techniques that exploit the synergy between data and theory to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 Oscar Barragán , Suzanne Aigrain , Vinesh M. Rajpaul , Norbert Zicher

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

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

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

The physical characteristics and atmospheric chemical composition of newly discovered exoplanets are often inferred from their transit spectra which are obtained from complex numerical models of radiative transfer. Alternatively, simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-23 Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman

Transmission spectroscopy is among the most fruitful techniques to infer the main opacity sources present in the upper atmosphere of a transiting planet and to constrain the composition of the thermosphere and of the unbound exosphere. Not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Daniela Sicilia , Luca Malavolta , Lorenzo Pino , Gaetano Scandariato , Valerio Nascimbeni , Giampaolo Piotto , Isabella Pagano

The JWST has ushered in a new era of exoplanet transit spectroscopy. Among the JWST instruments, the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) has the most extensive set of configurations for exoplanet time series observations. The NIRSpec Prism…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Subhajit Sarkar , Nikku Madhusudhan , Savvas Constantinou , Måns Holmberg

PyExoCross is a Python adaptation of the ExoCross Fortran application, PyExoCross is designed for postprocessing the huge molecular line lists generated by the ExoMol project and other similar initiatives such as the HITRAN and HITEMP…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Jingxin Zhang , Jonathan Tennyson , Sergei N. Yurchenko

Here, I present the community with exoTEDRF (EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework; formerly known as supreme-SPOON), an end-to-end pipeline for data reduction and light curve analysis of time series observations (TSOs) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Michael Radica

Precise physical properties of the known transiting exoplanets are essential for their precise atmospheric characterization using modern and upcoming instruments. Leveraging the large volume of high SNR photometric follow-up data from TESS,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Suman Saha

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

Transmission spectroscopy provides insight into the atmospheric properties and consequently the formation history, physics, and chemistry of transiting exoplanets. However, obtaining precise inferences of atmospheric properties from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Adina D. Feinstein , Michael Radica , Luis Welbanks , Catriona Anne Murray , Kazumasa Ohno , Louis-Philippe Coulombe , Néstor Espinoza , Jacob L. Bean , Johanna K. Teske , Björn Benneke , Michael R. Line , Zafar Rustamkulov , Arianna Saba , Angelos Tsiaras , Joanna K. Barstow , Jonathan J. Fortney , Peter Gao , Heather A. Knutson , Ryan J. MacDonald , Thomas Mikal-Evans , Benjamin V. Rackham , Jake Taylor , Vivien Parmentier , Natalie M. Batalha , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson , Aarynn L. Carter , Quentin Changeat , Leonardo A. Dos Santos , Neale P. Gibson , Jayesh M Goyal , Laura Kreidberg , Mercedes López-Morales , Joshua D Lothringer , Yamila Miguel , Karan Molaverdikhani , Sarah E. Moran , Giuseppe Morello , Sagnick Mukherjee , David K. Sing , Kevin B. Stevenson , Hannah R. Wakeford , Eva-Maria Ahrer , Munazza K. Alam , Lili Alderson , Natalie H. Allen , Natasha E. Batalha , Taylor J. Bell , Jasmina Blecic , Jonathan Brande , Claudio Caceres , S. L. Casewell , Katy L. Chubb , Ian J. M. Crossfield , Nicolas Crouzet , Patricio E. Cubillos , Leen Decin , Jean-Michel Désert , Joseph Harrington , Kevin Heng , Thomas Henning , Nicolas Iro , Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Sarah Kendrew , James Kirk , Jessica Krick , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Monika Lendl , Luigi Mancini , Megan Mansfield , E. M. May , N. J. Mayne , Nikolay K. Nikolov , Enric Palle , Dominique J. M. Petit dit de la Roche , Caroline Piaulet , Diana Powell , Seth Redfield , Laura K. Rogers , Michael T. Roman , Pierre-Alexis Roy , Matthew C. Nixon , Everett Schlawin , Xianyu Tan , P. Tremblin , Jake D. Turner , Olivia Venot , William C. Waalkes , Peter J. Wheatley , Xi Zhang