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Temporal variability in flux and spectral shape is ubiquitous in the X-ray sky and carries crucial information about the nature and emission physics of the sources. The EPIC instrument on board the XMM-Newton observatory is the most…

The occurrence of a planet transiting in front of its host star offers the opportunity to observe the planet's atmosphere filtering starlight. The fraction of occulted stellar flux is roughly proportional to the optically thick area of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 G. Morello , T. Zingales , M. Martin-Lagarde , R. Gastaud , P. -O. Lagage

We present updated transit timing measurements for the hot Jupiter WASP-135 b using three new ground-based transit observations obtained with Leia, a 0.6-meter telescope operated by NASA's Exoplanet Watch at the Table Mountain Facility.…

Space-based direct imaging provides prospects for detection and spectral characterization of exoplanets at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Integral field spectrographs (IFS) have been historically baselined for these mission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Jingwen Zhang , Michael Bottom , Eugene Serabyn

Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

Context. Detailed characterizations of exoplanets are moving to the forefront of planetary science. Temperature is a key marker for understanding atmospheric physics and chemistry. Aims. We aim to retrieve temperatures of N2-O2 dominated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Franz Schreier , Steffen Städt , Fabian Wunderlich , Mareike Godolt , John Lee Grenfell

Transiting exoplanets provide detailed access to their atmospheres, as the planet's signal can be effectively separated from that of its host star. For transiting exoplanets three fundamental atmospheric measurements are possible:…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 David K. Sing

Atmospheric characterisation of exoplanets from the ground is an actively growing field of research. In this context we have created the ATMOSPHERIX consortium: a research project aimed at characterizing exoplanets atmospheres using…

To date, the ability for observers to reveal the composition or thermal structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere has rested on two techniques: high-contrast direct imaging and time-series observations of transiting exoplanets. The former is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Kevin B. Stevenson

As we approach the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) era, several studies have emerged that aim to: 1) characterize how the instruments will perform and 2) determine what atmospheric spectral features could theoretically be detected using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Natasha E. Batalha , Avi Mandell , Klaus Pontoppidan , Kevin B. Stevenson , Nikole K. Lewis , Jason Kalirai , Thomas Greene , Loïc Albert , Louise D. Nielsen , Nick Earl

This paper presents a conceptual design for a spectrometer designed specifically for characterizing transiting exoplanets with space-borne infrared telescopes. The design adopting cross-dispersion is intended to be simple, compact, highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Keigo Enya

Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray scattering (P-RSoXS) has emerged as a powerful synchrotron-based tool that combines principles of X-ray scattering and X-ray spectroscopy. P-RSoXS provides unique sensitivity to molecular orientation and…

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

The future is now - after its long-awaited launch in December 2021, JWST began science operations in July 2022 and is already revolutionizing exoplanet astronomy. The Early Release Observations (ERO) program was designed to provide the…

The research of effective and reliable detrending methods for Spitzer data is of paramount importance for the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres. To date, the totality of exoplanetary observations in the mid- and far-infrared, at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Giuseppe Morello , Ingo P. Waldmann , Giovanna Tinetti

Studies of future space- and ground-based exoplanet surveys often rely on models of planetary systems to simulate instrument response, estimate scientific yields, perform trade analyses, and study efficient observation strategies. Until…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Christopher C. Stark

Here we present juliet, a versatile tool for the analysis of transits, radial-velocities, or both. juliet is built over many available tools for the modelling of transits, radial-velocities and stochastic processes (here modelled as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Néstor Espinoza , Diana Kossakowski , Rafael Brahm

We introduce EXOFIT, a Bayesian tool for estimating orbital parameters of extrasolar planets from radial velocity measurements. EXOFIT can search for either one or two planets at present. EXOFIT employs Markov Chain Monte Carlo method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Sreekumar T. Balan , Ofer Lahav

Gaussian processes (GPs) are commonly used as a model of stochastic variability in astrophysical time series. In particular, GPs are frequently employed to account for correlated stellar variability in planetary transit light curves. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Tyler Gordon , Eric Agol , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

Transmission spectroscopy is an effective technique for probing exoplanetary atmospheres. While most observations have relied on space facilities such as HST and JWST, ground-based high-resolution transmission spectroscopy (HRTS) has also…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Manjunath Bestha , Athira Unni , T. Sivarani , Shivangi Menon , Parvathy M , Arun Surya , Pallavi Saraf , Devika Divakar , Lokesh Manickavasaham