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author Priyadarshi, Akshay
Kerins, Eamonn
Albrow, Michael D.
Anderson, Jay
Bachelet, Etienne
Beichman, Chas
Bennett, David P.
Bhattacharya, Aparna
Bozza, Valerio
Brandon, Chris
Novati, Sebastiano Calchi
Carden, Kylee
Carey, Sean
Christiansen, Jessie
Crisp, Ali
DeRocco, William
Gaudi, Scott
Hulberg, Jon
Huston, Macy J.
Silva, Stela Ishitani
Khakpash, Somayeh
Kruszyńska, Katarzyna
Malpas, Amber
Murlidhar, Arjun
Lam, Casey
Lesley-Saldaña, Xavier
Lu, Jessica R.
Olmschenk, Greg
Penny, Matthew
Stassun, Keivan G.
Stephan, Alexander P.
Street, Rachel A.
Sumi, Takahiro
Terry, Sean K.
Verma, Himanshu
Zang, Weicheng
Zohrabi, Farzaneh
Duck, Alison
Espinoza, Nestor
Hoffman, Kelsey
Martinez-Palomera, Jorge
Mullally, Susan
Quintana, Elisa
Wilson, Robert
author_facet Priyadarshi, Akshay
Kerins, Eamonn
Albrow, Michael D.
Anderson, Jay
Bachelet, Etienne
Beichman, Chas
Bennett, David P.
Bhattacharya, Aparna
Bozza, Valerio
Brandon, Chris
Novati, Sebastiano Calchi
Carden, Kylee
Carey, Sean
Christiansen, Jessie
Crisp, Ali
DeRocco, William
Gaudi, Scott
Hulberg, Jon
Huston, Macy J.
Silva, Stela Ishitani
Khakpash, Somayeh
Kruszyńska, Katarzyna
Malpas, Amber
Murlidhar, Arjun
Lam, Casey
Lesley-Saldaña, Xavier
Lu, Jessica R.
Olmschenk, Greg
Penny, Matthew
Stassun, Keivan G.
Stephan, Alexander P.
Street, Rachel A.
Sumi, Takahiro
Terry, Sean K.
Verma, Himanshu
Zang, Weicheng
Zohrabi, Farzaneh
Duck, Alison
Espinoza, Nestor
Hoffman, Kelsey
Martinez-Palomera, Jorge
Mullally, Susan
Quintana, Elisa
Wilson, Robert
contents The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will unveil for the first time the full architecture of planetary systems across Galactic distances through the discovery of up to 200,000 cool and hot exoplanets using microlensing and transit detection methods. Roman's huge exoplanet haul, and Galactic reach, will require new methods to leverage the full exoplanet demographic content of the combined microlensing and transit samples, given the different sensitivity bias of the techniques to planet and host properties and Galactic location. We present a framework for technique-agnostic exoplanet demography (TAED) that can allow large, multi-technique exoplanet samples distributed over Galactic distance scales to be combined for demographic studies. Our TAED forward modelling and retrieval framework uses parameterised model exoplanet demographic distributions to embed planetary systems within a stellar population synthesis model of the Galaxy, enabling internally consistent forecasts to be made for all detection methods that are based on spatio-kinematic system properties. In this paper, as a first test of the TAED framework, we apply it to simulated transit datasets based on the Kepler Data Release 25 to assess parameter recovery accuracy and method scalability for a single large homogeneous dataset. We find that optimisation using differential evolution provides a computationally scalable framework that gives a good balance between computational efficiency and accuracy of parameter recovery.
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spellingShingle Technique-agnostic exoplanet demography for the Roman era -- I. Testing a demography retrieval framework using simulated Kepler-like transit datasets
Priyadarshi, Akshay
Kerins, Eamonn
Albrow, Michael D.
Anderson, Jay
Bachelet, Etienne
Beichman, Chas
Bennett, David P.
Bhattacharya, Aparna
Bozza, Valerio
Brandon, Chris
Novati, Sebastiano Calchi
Carden, Kylee
Carey, Sean
Christiansen, Jessie
Crisp, Ali
DeRocco, William
Gaudi, Scott
Hulberg, Jon
Huston, Macy J.
Silva, Stela Ishitani
Khakpash, Somayeh
Kruszyńska, Katarzyna
Malpas, Amber
Murlidhar, Arjun
Lam, Casey
Lesley-Saldaña, Xavier
Lu, Jessica R.
Olmschenk, Greg
Penny, Matthew
Stassun, Keivan G.
Stephan, Alexander P.
Street, Rachel A.
Sumi, Takahiro
Terry, Sean K.
Verma, Himanshu
Zang, Weicheng
Zohrabi, Farzaneh
Duck, Alison
Espinoza, Nestor
Hoffman, Kelsey
Martinez-Palomera, Jorge
Mullally, Susan
Quintana, Elisa
Wilson, Robert
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will unveil for the first time the full architecture of planetary systems across Galactic distances through the discovery of up to 200,000 cool and hot exoplanets using microlensing and transit detection methods. Roman's huge exoplanet haul, and Galactic reach, will require new methods to leverage the full exoplanet demographic content of the combined microlensing and transit samples, given the different sensitivity bias of the techniques to planet and host properties and Galactic location. We present a framework for technique-agnostic exoplanet demography (TAED) that can allow large, multi-technique exoplanet samples distributed over Galactic distance scales to be combined for demographic studies. Our TAED forward modelling and retrieval framework uses parameterised model exoplanet demographic distributions to embed planetary systems within a stellar population synthesis model of the Galaxy, enabling internally consistent forecasts to be made for all detection methods that are based on spatio-kinematic system properties. In this paper, as a first test of the TAED framework, we apply it to simulated transit datasets based on the Kepler Data Release 25 to assess parameter recovery accuracy and method scalability for a single large homogeneous dataset. We find that optimisation using differential evolution provides a computationally scalable framework that gives a good balance between computational efficiency and accuracy of parameter recovery.
title Technique-agnostic exoplanet demography for the Roman era -- I. Testing a demography retrieval framework using simulated Kepler-like transit datasets
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24401