The effect of stellar contamination on low-resolution transmission spectroscopy: needs identified by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21

BV Rackham, N Espinoza… - RAS Techniques …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Analysis Group 21 (SAG21) of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
Analysis Group was organized to study the effect of stellar contamination on space-based …

The CHEOPS mission

W Benz, C Broeg, A Fortier, N Rando, T Beck… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) was selected on October 19,
2012, as the first small mission (S-mission) in the ESA Science Programme and successfully …

Transit detection of the long-period volatile-rich super-Earth ν2 Lupi d with CHEOPS

L Delrez, D Ehrenreich, Y Alibert, A Bonfanti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Exoplanets transiting bright nearby stars are key objects for advancing our knowledge of
planetary formation and evolution. The wealth of photons from the host star gives detailed …

Analysis of Early Science observations with the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) using pycheops

PFL Maxted, D Ehrenreich, TG Wilson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) is an ESA S-class mission that
observes bright stars at high cadence from low-Earth orbit. The main aim of the mission is to …

Connecting photometric and spectroscopic granulation signals with CHEOPS and ESPRESSO

S Sulis, M Lendl, HM Cegla, LFR Díaz, L Bigot… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar granulation generates fluctuations in photometric and spectroscopic data
whose properties depend on the stellar type, composition, and evolutionary state …

Scaling relations of convective granulation noise across the HR diagram from 3D stellar atmosphere models

LF Rodríguez Díaz, L Bigot… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
High-precision photometric data from space missions have improved our understanding of
stellar granulation. These observations have shown with precision the stochastic brightness …

Spatially resolved spectroscopy across stellar surfaces-V. Observational prospects: toward Earth-like exoplanet detection

D Dravins, HG Ludwig, B Freytag - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. High-precision stellar analyses require hydrodynamic 3D modeling. Testing such
models is feasible by retrieving spectral line shapes across stellar disks, using differential …

A fast, two-dimensional Gaussian process method based on celerite: applications to transiting exoplanet discovery and characterization

TA Gordon, E Agol… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Solar photospheric spectrum microvariability-I. Theoretical searches for proxies of radial-velocity jittering

D Dravins, HG Ludwig - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Extreme precision radial-velocity spectrometers enable extreme precision in stellar
spectroscopy. Searches for low-mass exoplanets around solar-type stars are limited by …

Power of wavelets in analyses of transit and phase curves in the presence of stellar variability and instrumental noise-I. Method and validation

S Csizmadia, AMS Smith, S Kálmán, J Cabrera… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar photometric variability and instrumental effects, such as cosmic ray hits, data
discontinuities, data leaks, instrument aging, and so on, lead to difficulties in the …