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| author | Manickavasaham, Lokesh Bestha, Manjunath Thirupathi, Sivarani Surya, Arun Unni, Athira |
| author_facet | Manickavasaham, Lokesh Bestha, Manjunath Thirupathi, Sivarani Surya, Arun Unni, Athira |
| contents | Ground-based transmission spectroscopy is often dominated by systematics, which obstructs our ability to leverage the advantages of larger aperture sizes compared to space-based observations. These systematics could be time-correlated, uniform across all spectroscopic light curves, or wavelength-correlated, which could significantly affect the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. Gaussian Processes were introduced in transmission spectroscopy by Gibson et al. (2012) to model correlated systematics in a non-parametric way. The technique uses auxiliary information about the observation and independently fits each spectroscopic light curve to provide robust atmospheric retrievals. However, this method assumes that the uncertainties in the transmission spectrum are uncorrelated in wavelength, which can cause discrepancies and degrade the precision of atmospheric retrievals. To address this limitation, we explore a 2D GP framework formulated by Fortune et al. (2024) to simultaneously model time- and wavelength-correlated systematics. We present its application to ground-based observations of TOI-4153b obtained using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT). As we move towards detecting smaller and cooler planets, developing new methods to address complex systematics becomes increasingly essential. |
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| spellingShingle | Addressing wavelength-correlated systematics in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy: a 2D Gaussian Process approach Manickavasaham, Lokesh Bestha, Manjunath Thirupathi, Sivarani Surya, Arun Unni, Athira Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Ground-based transmission spectroscopy is often dominated by systematics, which obstructs our ability to leverage the advantages of larger aperture sizes compared to space-based observations. These systematics could be time-correlated, uniform across all spectroscopic light curves, or wavelength-correlated, which could significantly affect the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. Gaussian Processes were introduced in transmission spectroscopy by Gibson et al. (2012) to model correlated systematics in a non-parametric way. The technique uses auxiliary information about the observation and independently fits each spectroscopic light curve to provide robust atmospheric retrievals. However, this method assumes that the uncertainties in the transmission spectrum are uncorrelated in wavelength, which can cause discrepancies and degrade the precision of atmospheric retrievals. To address this limitation, we explore a 2D GP framework formulated by Fortune et al. (2024) to simultaneously model time- and wavelength-correlated systematics. We present its application to ground-based observations of TOI-4153b obtained using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT). As we move towards detecting smaller and cooler planets, developing new methods to address complex systematics becomes increasingly essential. |
| title | Addressing wavelength-correlated systematics in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy: a 2D Gaussian Process approach |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20423 |