NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers.
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MARFA: An Effective Line-by-line Tool for Calculating Absorption Coefficients and Cross-sections in Planetary Atmospheres
We present MARFA (Molecular atmospheric Absorption with Rapid and Flexible Analysis) — a streamlined efficient tool for line-by-line calculation of atmospheric absorption signatures in the form of PT lookup tables, […]
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easyCHEM: A Python Package For Calculating Chemical Equilibrium Abundances In Exoplanet Atmospheres
For modeling the spectra of exoplanets one must know their atmospheric composition. This is necessary because the abundance of molecules, atoms, ions and condensates is needed to construct the total […]
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Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels
Inferring atmospheric properties of exoplanets from observed spectra is key to understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability.
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Assessing Methods for Telluric Removal On Atmospheric Retrievals of High-resolution Optical Exoplanetary Transmission Spectra
Recent advancements in ultra-stable ground-based high-resolution spectrographs have propelled ground-based astronomy to the forefront of exoplanet detection and characterisation. Retrieving accurate atmospheric parameters depends on accurate modelling and removal of […]
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Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge, Phase II: Comparison Of Algorithms In Terms Of Characterization Capabilities
In this communication, we report on the results of the second phase of the Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge started in 2019.
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Generative AI for Overall Mission Effectiveness at the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Here we present several use cases for using Generative AI (Gen AI) to improve systems engineering and cognitive knowledge management related to the future of astronomy from a culmination of […]
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MultIHeaTS: A Fast and Stable Thermal Solver for Multilayered Planetary Surfaces
A fully implicit scheme is proposed for solving the heat equation in 1D heterogeneous media, available as a computationally efficient open-source Python code. The algorithm uses finite differences on an […]
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Cthulhu: An Open Source Molecular and Atomic Cross Section Computation Code for Substellar Atmospheres
Atmospheric studies of exoplanets and brown dwarfs are a cutting-edge and rapidly evolving area of astrophysics research. Calculating models of exoplanet or brown dwarf spectra requires knowledge of the wavelength-dependent […]
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Planetary Mass Determinations from a Simplified Photodynamical Model — Application To The Complete Kepler Dataset
We use PyDynamicaLC, a model using the least number of, and the least correlated, degrees of freedom needed to derive a photodynamical model, to describe some of the smallest — […]