JWST/NIRISS and HST: exploring the improved ability to characterise exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 535:1 (2024) 27-46

Authors:

Chloe Fisher, Jake Taylor, Vivien Parmentier, Daniel Kitzmann, Jayne Birkby, Michael Radica, Joanna Barstow, Jingxuan Yang, Giuseppe Morello

Abstract:

The Hubble Space Telescope has been a pioneering instrument for studying the atmospheres of exoplanets, specifically its WFC3 and STIS instruments. With the launch of JWST, we are able to observe larger spectral ranges at higher precision. NIRISS/SOSS covers the range 0.6–2.8 microns, and thus, it can serve as a direct comparison to WFC3 (0.8–1.7 microns). We perform atmospheric retrievals of WFC3 and NIRISS transmission spectra of WASP-39 b in order to compare their constraining power. We find that NIRISS is able to retrieve precise H2O abundances that do not suffer a degeneracy with the continuum level due to the coverage of multiple spectral features. We also combine these data sets with spectra from STIS and find that challenges associated with fitting the steep optical slope can bias the retrieval results. In an effort to diagnose the differences between the WFC3 and NIRISS retrievals, we perform the analysis again on the NIRISS data cut to the same wavelength range as WFC3. We find that the water abundance is in strong disagreement with both the WFC3 and full NIRISS retrievals, highlighting the importance of wide wavelength coverage. Finally, we carry out mock retrievals on the different instruments, which shows further evidence of the challenges in constraining water abundance from the WFC3 data alone. Our study demonstrates the vast information gain of JWST’s NIRISS instrument over WFC3, highlighting the insights to be obtained from our new era of space-based instruments.

JWST/NIRISS and HST: Exploring the improved ability to characterise exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era

(2024)

Authors:

Chloe Fisher, Jake Taylor, Vivien Parmentier, Daniel Kitzmann, Jayne L Birkby, Michael Radica, Joanna Barstow, Jingxuan Yang, Giuseppe Morello

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences (2024)

Authors:

Y Mellier, Abdurroúf, JA Acevedo Barroso, A Achucarro, J Adamek, R Adam, GE Addison, N Aghanim, M Aguena, V Ajani, Y Akrami, A Al-Bahlawan, A Alavi, IS Albuquerque, G Alestas, G Alguero, A Allaoui, SW Allen, V Allevato, AV Alonso-Tetilla, B Altieri, A Alvarez-Candal, S Alvi, A Amara, L Amendola, J Amiaux, IT Andika, S Andreon, A Andrews, G Angora, RE Angulo, F Annibali, A Anselmi, S Anselmi, S Arcari, M Archidiacono, G Aricò, M Arnaud, S Arnouts, M Asgari, J Asorey, L Atayde, H Atek, F Atrio-Barandela, M Aubert, E Aubourg, T Auphan, N Auricchio, B Aussel, H Aussel, P Avelino, A Avgoustidis, S Avila, S Awan, R Azzollini, C Baccigalupi, E Bachelet, D Bacon, M Baes, MB Bagley, B Bahr-Kalus, A Balaguera-Antolinez, E Balbinot, M Balcells, M Baldi, I Baldry, A Balestra, M Ballardini, O Ballester, M Balogh, E Banados, R Barbier, S Bardelli, M Baron, T Barreiro, R Barrena, J-C Barriere, BJ Barros, A Barthelemy, N Bartolo, A Basset, P Battaglia, AJ Battisti, CM Baugh, L Baumont, L Bazzanini, J-P Beaulieu, V Beckmann, AN Belikov, J Bel, F Bellagamba, M Bella, E Bellini, K Benabed, R Bender, G Benevento, CL Bennett, K Benson, P Bergamini, JR Bermejo-Climent, F Bernardeau, D Bertacca, M Berthe, J Berthier, M Bethermin, F Beutler, C Bevillon, S Bhargava, R Bhatawdekar, D Bianchi, L Bisigello, A Biviano, RP Blake, A Blanchard, J Blazek, L Blot, A Bosco, C Bodendorf, T Boenke, H B\"ohringer, P Boldrini, M Bolzonella, A Bonchi, M Bonici, D Bonino, L Bonino, C Bonvin, W Bon, JT Booth, S Borgani, AS Borlaff, E Borsato, A Bosco, B Bose, MT Botticella, A Boucaud, F Bouche, JS Boucher, D Boutigny, T Bouvard, R Bouwens, H Bouy, RA Bowler, V Bozza, E Bozzo, E Branchini, G Brando, S Brau-Nogue, P Brekke, MN Bremer, M Brescia, M-A Breton, J Brinchmann, T Brinckmann, C Brockley-Blatt, M Brodwin, L Brouard, ML Brown, S Bruton, J Bucko, H Buddelmeijer, G Buenadicha, F Buitrago, P Burger, C Burigana, V Busillo, D Busonero, R Cabanac, L Cabayol-Garcia, MS Cagliari, A Caillat, L Caillat, M Calabrese, A Calabro, G Calderone, F Calura, B Camacho Quevedo, S Camera, L Campos, n, GP Candini, M Cantiello, V Capobianco, E Cappellaro, N Cappelluti, A Cappi, KI Caputi, C Cara, C Carbone, VF Cardone, E Carella, RG Carlberg, M Carle, L Carminati, F Caro, JM Carrasco, J Carretero, P Carrilho, J Carron Duque, B Carry, A Carvalho, CS Carvalho, R Casas, S Casas, P Casenove, CM Casey, P Cassata, FJ Castander, D Castelao, M Castellano, L Castiblanco, G Castignani, T Castro, C Cavet, S Cavuoti, P-Y Chabaud, KC Chambers, Y Charles, S Charlot, N Chartab, R Chary, F Chaumeil, H Cho, G Chon, E Ciancetta, P Ciliegi, A Cimatti, M Cimino, LM-R Cioni, R Claydon, C Cleland, B Cl'ement, DL Clements, N Clerc, S Clesse, S Codis, F Cogato, J Colbert, RE Cole, P Coles, TE Collett, RS Collins, C Colodro-Conde, C Colombo, F Combes, V Conforti, G Congedo, S Conseil, CJ Conselice, S Contarini, T Contini, L Conversi, AR Cooray, Y Copin, P-S Corasaniti, P Corcho-Caballero, L Corcione, O Cordes, O Corpace, M Correnti, M Costanzi, A Costille, F Courbin, L Courcoult Mifsud, HM Courtois, M-C Cousinou, G Covone, T Cowell, C Cragg, G Cresci, S Cristiani, M Crocce, M Cropper, P E Crouzet, B Csizi, J-G Cuby, E Cucchetti, O Cucciati, J-C Cuillandre, PAC Cunha, V Cuozzo, E Daddi, M D'Addona, C Dafonte, N Dagoneau, E Dalessandro, GB Dalton, G D'Amico, H Dannerbauer, P Danto, I Das, A Da Silva, R da Silva, W d'Assignies Doumerg, G Daste, JE Davies, S Davini, P Dayal, T de Boer, R Decarli, B De Caro, H Degaudenzi, G Degni, JTA de Jong, LF de la Bella, S de la Torre, F Delhaise, D Delley, G Delucchi, G De Lucia, J Denniston, F De Paolis, M De Petris, A Derosa, S Desai, V Desjacques, G Despali, G Desprez, J De Vicente-Albendea, Y Deville, JDF Dias, A Díaz-Sánchez, J Diaz, S Di Domizio, JM Diego, D Di Ferdinando, AM Di Giorgio, P Dimauro, J Dinis, K Dolag, C Dolding, H Dole, H Domínguez Sánchez, O Doré, F Dournac, M Douspis, H Dreihahn, B Droge, B Dryer, F Dubath, P-A Duc, F Ducret, C Duffy, F Dufresne, CAJ Duncan, X Dupac, V Duret, R Durrer, F Durret, S Dusini, A Ealet, A Eggemeier, PRM Eisenhardt, D Elbaz, MY Elkhashab, A Ellien, J Endicott, A Enia, T Erben, JA Escartin Vigo, S Escoffier, I Escudero Sanz, J Essert, S Ettori, M Ezziati, G Fabbian, M Fabricius, Y Fang, A Farina, M Farina, R Farinelli, S Farrens, F Faustini, A Feltre, AMN Ferguson, P Ferrando, AG Ferrari, A Ferré-Mateu, PG Ferreira, I Ferreras, I Ferrero, S Ferriol, P Ferruit, D Filleul, F Finelli, SL Finkelstein, A Finoguenov, B Fiorini, F Flentge, P Focardi, J Fonseca, A Fontana, F Fontanot, F Fornari, P Fosalba, M Fossati, S Fotopoulou, D Fouchez, N Fourmanoit, M Frailis, D Fraix-Burnet, E Franceschi, A Franco, P Franzetti, J Freihoefer, CS Frenk, G Frittoli, P-A Frugier, N Frusciante, A Fumagalli, M Fumagalli, M Fumana, Y Fu, L Gabarra, S Galeotta, L Galluccio, K Ganga, H Gao, J Garc'ia-Bellido, K Garcia, JP Gardner, B Garilli, L-M Gaspar-Venancio, T Gasparetto, V Gautard, R Gavazzi, E Gaztanaga, L Genolet, R Genova Santos, F Gentile, K George, M Gerbino, Z Ghaffari, F Giacomini, F Gianotti, GPS Gibb, W Gillard, B Gillis, M Ginolfi, C Giocoli, M Girardi, SK Giri, LWK Goh, P G'omez-Alvarez, V Gonzalez-Perez, AH Gonzalez, EJ Gonzalez, JC Gonzalez, S Gouyou Beauchamps, G Gozaliasl, J Gracia-Carpio, S Grandis, BR Granett, M Granvik, A Grazian, A Gregorio, C Grenet, C Grillo, F Grupp, C Gruppioni, A Gruppuso, C Guerbuez, S Guerrini, M Guidi, P Guillard, CM Gutierrez, P Guttridge, L Guzzo, S Gwyn, J Haapala, J Haase, CR Haddow, M Hailey, A Hall, D Hall, N Hamaus, BS Haridasu, J Harnois-D'eraps, C Harper, WG Hartley, G Hasinger, F Hassani, NA Hatch, SVH Haugan, B Haussler, A Heavens, L Heisenberg, A Helmi, G Helou, S Hemmati, K Henares, O Herent, C Hern'andez-Monteagudo, T Heuberger, PC Hewett, S Heydenreich, H Hildebrandt, M Hirschmann, J Hjorth, J Hoar, H Hoekstra, AD Holland, MS Holliman, W Holmes, I Hook, B Horeau, F Hormuth, A Hornstrup, S Hosseini, D Hu, P Hudelot, MJ Hudson, M Huertas-Company, EM Huff, ACN Hughes, A Humphrey, LK Hunt, D Huynh, R Ibata, K Ichikawa, S Iglesias-Groth, O Ilbert, S Ili'c, L Ingoglia, E Iodice, H Israel, UE Israelsson, L Izzo, P Jablonka, N Jackson, J Jacobson, M Jafariyazani, K Jahnke, B Jain, H Jansen, MJ Jarvis, J Jasche, M Jauzac, N Jeffrey, M Jhabvala, Y Jimenez-Teja, A Jimenez Munoz, B Joachimi, PH Johansson, S Joudaki, E Jullo, JE Kajava, Y Kang, A Kannawadi, V Kansal, D Karagiannis, M Karcher, A Kashlinsky, MV Kazandjian, F Keck, E Keihanen, E Kerins, S Kermiche, A Khalil, A Kiessling, K Kiiveri, M Kilbinger, J Kim, R King, C Kirkpatrick, T Kitching, M Kluge, M Knabenhans, JH Knapen, A Knebe, J-P Kneib, R Kohley, LVE Koopmans, H Koskinen, E Koulouridis, R Kou, A Kov'acs, I Kova, c, i, c, A Kowalczyk, K Koyama, K Kraljic, O Krause, S Kruk, B Kubik, U Kuchner, K Kuijken, M Kummel, M Kunz, H Kurki-Suonio, F Lacasa, CG Lacey, F La Franca, N Lagarde, O Lahav, C Laigle, A La Marca, O La Marle, B Lamine, MC Lam, A Lan, c, on, H Landt, M Langer, A Lapi, C Larcheveque, S Larsen, M Lattanzi, F Laudisio, D Laugier, R Laureijs, V Laurent, G Lavaux, A Lawrenson, A Lazanu, T Lazeyras, Q Le Boulc'h, AMC Le Brun, V Le Brun, F Leclercq, S Lee, J Le Graet, L Legrand, KN Leirvik, M Le Jeune, M Lembo, D Le Mignant, MD Lepinzan, F Lepori, A Le Reun, G Leroy, GF Lesci, J Lesgourgues, L Leuzzi, ME Levi, TI Liaudat, G Libet, P Liebing, S Ligori, PB Lilje, C-C Lin, D Linde, E Linder, V Lindholm, L Linke, S-S Li, SJ Liu, I Lloro, FSN Lobo, N Lodieu, M Lombardi, L Lombriser, P Lonare, G Longo, M L'opez-Caniego, X Lopez Lopez, J Lorenzo Alvarez, A Loureiro, J Loveday, E Lusso, J Macias-Perez, T Maciaszek, G Maggio, M Magliocchetti, F Magnard, EA Magnier, A Magro, G Mahler, G Mainetti, D Maino, E Maiorano, E Maiorano, N Malavasi, GA Mamon, C Mancini, R Mandelbaum, M Manera, A Manjón-García, F Mannucci, O Mansutti, M Manteiga Outeiro, R Maoli, C Maraston, S Marcin, P Marcos-Arenal, B Margalef-Bentabol, O Marggraf, D Marinucci, M 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Wiesmann, J Wilde, OR Williams, H-A Winther, A Wittje, JHW Wong, AH Wright, V Yankelevich, HW Yeung, M Yoon, S Youles, LYA Yung, A Zacchei, L Zalesky, G Zamorani, A Zamorano Vitorelli, M Zanoni Marc, M Zennaro, FM Zerbi, IA Zinchenko, J Zoubian, E Zucca, M Zumalacarregui

Performance of a Modular Ton-Scale Pixel-Readout Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

Instruments MDPI 8:3 (2024) 41

Authors:

A Abed Abud, B Abi, R Acciarri, MA Acero, MR Adames, G Adamov, M Adamowski, D Adams, M Adinolfi, C Adriano, A Aduszkiewicz, J Aguilar, B Aimard, F Akbar, K Allison, S Alonso Monsalve, M Alrashed, A Alton, R Alvarez, T Alves, H Amar, P Amedo, J Anderson, DA Andrade, F Azfar

Abstract:

The Module-0 Demonstrator is a single-phase 600 kg liquid argon time projection chamber operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector. Based on the ArgonCube design concept, Module-0 features a novel 80k-channel pixelated charge readout and advanced high-coverage photon detection system. In this paper, we present an analysis of an eight-day data set consisting of 25 million cosmic ray events collected in the spring of 2021. We use this sample to demonstrate the imaging performance of the charge and light readout systems as well as the signal correlations between the two. We also report argon purity and detector uniformity measurements and provide comparisons to detector simulations.

Report of the Kavli-IAU Workshop on Global Coordination, "Probing the Universe from far-infrared to millimeter wavelengths: future facilities and their synergies"

ArXiv 2409.0757 (2024)

Authors:

Science Organizing Committee, George Helou, Ewine van Dishoeck, Jonas Zmuidzinas, Alberto Bolatto, Ilse Cleeves, Daniel Dale, Kentaro Motohara, Pat Roche, Linda Tacconi