Imaging & Spectroscopy

ATMOSPHERIX: I- An open source high resolution transmission spectroscopy pipeline for exoplanets atmospheres with SPIRou

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

astro-ph.EP

August 31, 2023

Filed under astro-ph.EP, atmosphere, ATMOSPHERIX, exoplanet, Spectroscopy, SPIRou

ATMOSPHERIX: I- An open source high resolution transmission spectroscopy pipeline for exoplanets atmospheres with SPIRou — Time series of spectra in Order 46 (1643 to 1695 nm) at subsequent steps of the data processing as detailed in Sections 3.1 and 3.2. From top to bottom: [a] Blaze- and telluric-corrected APERO-provided spectra (prior to step (i) in Section 3.1); [b] spectra corrected from the master-out template (step (i) in Section 3.1); [c] Normalised spectra (step (ii) in Section 3.1); and [d] PCA-corrected spectra (with 8 components removed; see Section 3.2). Note that time series of normalised spectra cleaned with the auto-encoder, visually similar to the bottom panel, is not shown here. — astro-ph.EP

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 ground-based high resolution spectroscopy.

This paper presents the publicly-available data analysis pipeline and demonstrates the robustness of the recovered planetary parameters from synthetic data. Simulating planetary transits using synthetic transmission spectra of a hot Jupiter that were injected into real SPIRou observations of the non-transiting system Gl 15 A, we show that our pipeline is successful at recovering the planetary signal and input atmospheric parameters. We also introduce a deep learning algorithm to optimise data reduction which proves to be a reliable, alternative tool to the commonly used principal component analysis.

We estimate the level of uncertainties and possible biases when retrieving parameters such as temperature and composition and hence the level of confidence in the case of retrieval from real data. Finally, we apply our pipeline onto two real transits of HD~189733 b observed with SPIRou and obtain similar results than in the literature. In summary, we have developed a publicly available and robust pipeline for the forthcoming studies of the targets to be observed in the framework of the ATMOSPHERIX consortium, which can easily be adapted to other high resolution instruments than SPIRou (e.g. VLT-CRIRES, MAROON-X, ELT-ANDES)

B. Klein, F. Debras, J.-F. Donati, T. Hood, C. Moutou, A. Carmona, M. Ould-elkhim, B. Bézard, B. Charnay, P. Fouqué, A. Masson, S. Vinatier, C. Baruteau, I. Boisse, X. Bonfils, A. Chiavassa, X. Delfosse, W. Dethier, G. Hebrard, F. Kiefer, J. Leconte, E. Martioli, V. Parmentier, P. Petit, W. Pluriel, F. Selsis, L. Teinturier, P. Tremblin, M. Turbet, O. Venot

Comments: Accepted in MNRAS
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2308.14510 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2308.14510v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
Submission history
From: Florian Debras
[v1] Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:57:37 UTC (11,428 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14510
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Keith Cowing

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻

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