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Rasmussen, Kaitlin C., Brogi, Matteo, Rahman, Fahin, Beltz, Hayley, Currie, Miles, Rauscher, Emily and Ji, Alexander P. (2022) SPORK That Spectrum: increasing detection significances from high-resolution exoplanet spectroscopy with novel smoothing algorithms. The Astronomical Journal, 164 (2). p. 35. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac6bfa
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6bfa
Abstract
Spectroscopic studies of planets outside of our own solar system provide some of the most crucial information about their formation, evolution, and atmospheric properties. In ground-based spectroscopy, the process of extracting the planets signal from the stellar and telluric signal has proven to be the most difficult barrier to accurate atmospheric information. However, with novel normalization and smoothing methods, this barrier can be minimized and the detection significance dramatically increased over existing methods. In this paper, we take two examples of CRIRES emission spectroscopy taken of HD 209458 b and HD 179949 b, and apply SPORK (SPectral cOntinuum Refinement for telluriKs) and iterative smoothing to boost the detection significance from 5.78 to 9.71σ, and from 4.38σ to 6.89σ, respectively. These methods, which largely address systematic quirks introduced by imperfect detectors or reduction pipelines, can be employed in a wide variety of scenarios, from archival data sets to simulations of future spectrographs.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Extrasolar planets -- Atmospheres, Astrophysics, Extrasolar planets -- Detection, High resolution spectroscopy | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Astronomical Journal | ||||||
| Publisher: | The American Astronomical Society | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1538-3881 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 5 July 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 164 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | p. 35 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/ac6bfa | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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