Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 524:4 (2023) 5477-5485

Authors:

Sophia R Vaughan, Timothy D Gebhard, Kimberly Bott, Sarah L Casewell, Nicolas B Cowan, David S Doelman, Matthew Kenworthy, Johan Mazoyer, Maxwell A Millar-Blanchaer, Victor JH Trees, Daphne M Stam, Olivier Absil, Lisa Altinier, Pierre Baudoz, Ruslan Belikov, Alexis Bidot, Jayne L Birkby, Markus J Bonse, Bernhard Brandl, Alexis Carlotti, Elodie Choquet, Dirk van聽Dam, Niyati Desai, Kevin Fogarty, J Fowler, Kyle van聽Gorkom, Yann Gutierrez, Olivier Guyon, Sebastiaan Y Haffert, Olivier Herscovici-Schiller, Adrien Hours, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Evangelia Kleisioti, Lorenzo K枚nig, Maaike van聽Kooten, Mariya Krasteva, Iva Laginja, Rico Landman, Lucie Leboulleux, David Mouillet, Mamadou N鈥橠iaye, Emiel H Por, Laurent Pueyo, Frans Snik

Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

(2023)

Authors:

Sophia R Vaughan, Timothy D Gebhard, Kimberly Bott, Sarah L Casewell, Nicolas B Cowan, David S Doelman, Matthew Kenworthy, Johan Mazoyer, Maxwell A Millar-Blanchaer, Victor JH Trees, Daphne M Stam, Olivier Absil, Lisa Altinier, Pierre Baudoz, Ruslan Belikov, Alexis Bidot, Jayne L Birkby, Markus J Bonse, Bernhard Brandl, Alexis Carlotti, Elodie Choquet, Dirk van Dam, Niyati Desai, Kevin Fogarty, J Fowler, Kyle van Gorkom, Yann Gutierrez, Olivier Guyon, Sebastiaan Y Haffert, Olivier Herscovici-Schiller, Adrien Hours, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Evangelia Kleisioti, Lorenzo K枚nig, Maaike van Kooten, Mariya Krasteva, Iva Laginja, Rico Landman, Lucie Leboulleux, David Mouillet, Mamadou N'Diaye, Emiel H Por, Laurent Pueyo, Frans Snik

Reconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora

European Physical Journal C Springer Nature 83:7 (2023) 618

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, Z Ahmad, J Ahmed, B Aimard, F Akbar, B Ali-Mohammadzadeh, K Allison, S Alonso Monsalve, M AlRashed, C Alt, A Alton, R Alvarez, P Amedo, J Anderson, C Andreopoulos, M Andreotti, M Andrews, F Andrianala, S Andringa, N Anfimov, A Ankowski, M Antoniassi, M Antonova, A Antoshkin, S Antusch, A Aranda-Fernandez, L Arellano, LO Arnold, MA Arroyave, J Asaadi, L Asquith, A Aurisano, V Aushev, D Autiero, V Ayala Lara, M Ayala-Torres, F Azfar, A Back, H Back, JJ Back, C Backhouse, I Bagaturia, L Bagby, N Balashov, S Balasubramanian, P Baldi, B Baller, B Bambah, F Barao, G Barenboim, G Barker, W Barkhouse, C Barnes, G Barr, J Barranco Monarca, A Barros, N Barros, JL Barrow, A Basharina-Freshville, A Bashyal, V Basque, C Batchelor, J Battat, F Battisti, F Bay, MCQ Bazetto, JL Bazo Alba, JF Beacom, E Bechetoille, B Behera, E Belchior Batista das Chagas, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, V Bellini, O Beltramello, N Benekos, C Benitez Montiel, F Bento Neves, J Berger, S Berkman, P Bernardini, RM Berner, A Bersani, S Bertolucci, M Betancourt, A Betancur Rodr铆guez, A Bevan, Y Bezawada, AT Bezerra, TJ Bezerra, A Bhardwaj, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, D Bhattarai, S Bhuller, B Bhuyan, S Biagi, J Bian, M Biassoni, K Biery, B Bilki, M Bishai, A Bitadze, A Blake, FDM Blaszczyk, GC Blazey, E Blucher, J Boissevain, S Bolognesi, T Bolton, L Bomben, M Bonesini, C Bonilla-Diaz, F Bonini, A Booth, F Boran, S Bordoni, A Borkum, N Bostan, P Bour, D Boyden, J Bracinik, D Braga, D Brailsford, A Branca, A Brandt, J Bremer, C Brew, SJ Brice, C Brizzolari, C Bromberg, J Brooke, A Bross, G Brunetti, M Brunetti, N Buchanan, H Budd, I Butorov, I Cagnoli, T Cai, D Caiulo, R Calabrese, P Calafiura, J Calcutt, M Calin, S Calvez, E Calvo, A Caminata, A Campos Benitez, D Caratelli, D Carber, JM Carceller, G Carini, B Carlus, MF Carneiro, P Carniti, I Caro Terrazas, H Carranza, T Carroll, JF Casta帽o Forero, A Castillo, C Castromonte, E Catano-Mur, C Cattadori, F Cavalier, G Cavallaro, F Cavanna, S Centro, G Cerati, A Cervelli, A Cervera Villanueva, M Chalifour, A Chappell, E Chardonnet, N Charitonidis, A Chatterjee, S Chattopadhyay, MS Chavarry Neyra, H Chen, M Chen, Y Chen, Z Chen, Z Chen-Wishart, Y Cheon, D Cherdack, C Chi, S Childress, R Chirco, A Chiriacescu, K Cho, S Choate, D Chokheli, PS Chong, A Christensen, D Christian, G Christodoulou, A Chukanov, M Chung, E Church, V Cicero, P Clarke, G Cline, TE Coan, AG Cocco, J Coelho, J Collot, N Colton, E Conley, R Conley, J Conrad, M Convery, S Copello, P Cova, L Cremaldi, L Cremonesi, JI Crespo-Anad贸n, M Crisler, E Cristaldo, J Crnkovic, R Cross, A Cudd, C Cuesta, Y Cui, D Cussans, J Dai, O Dalager, H Da Motta, L Da Silva Peres, C David, Q David, GS Davies, S Davini, J Dawson, K De, S De, P Debbins, I De Bonis, M Decowski, A De Gouvea, PC De Holanda, IL De Icaza Astiz, A Deisting, P De Jong, A Delbart, V De Leo, D Delepine, M Delgado, A Dell鈥橝cqua, N Delmonte, P De Lurgio, JR De Mello Neto, DM DeMuth, S Dennis, C Densham, GW Deptuch, A De Roeck, V De Romeri, G De Souza, R Devi, R Dharmapalan, M Dias, J Diaz, F D铆az, F Di Capua, A Di Domenico, S Di Domizio, L Di Giulio, P Ding, L Di Noto, G Dirkx, C Distefano, R Diurba, M Diwan, Z Djurcic, D Doering, S Dolan, F Dolek, M Dolinski, L Domine, Y Donon, D Douglas, A Dragone, G Drake, F Drielsma, L Duarte, D Duchesneau, K Duffy, P Dunne, B Dutta, H Duyang, O Dvornikov, D Dwyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, A Earle, D Edmunds, J Eisch, L Emberger, S Emery, P Englezos, A Ereditato, T Erjavec, C Escobar, L Escudero Sanchez, G Eurin, JJ Evans, E Ewart, AC Ezeribe, K Fahey, A Falcone, M Fani鈥, C Farnese, Y Farzan, D Fedoseev, J Felix, Y Feng, E Fernandez-Martinez, P Fernandez Menendez, F Ferraro, L Fields, P Filip, F Filthaut, R Fine, G Fiorillo, M Fiorini, V Fischer, RS Fitzpatrick, W Flanagan, B Fleming, R Flight, S Fogarty, W Foreman, J Fowler, W Fox, J Franc, K Francis, D Franco, J Freeman, J Freestone, J Fried, A Friedland, S Fuess, IK Furic, K Furman, AP Furmanski, A Gabrielli, A Gago, H Gallagher, A Gallas, A Gallego-Ros, N Gallice, V Galymov, E Gamberini, T Gamble, F Ganacim, R Gandhi, S Ganguly, F Gao, S Gao, D Garcia-Gamez, M脕 Garc铆a-Peris, S Gardiner, D Gastler, J Gauvreau, P Gauzzi, G Ge, N Geffroy, B Gelli, A Gendotti, S Gent, Z Ghorbani-Moghaddam, P Giammaria, T Giammaria, N Giangiacomi, D Gibin, I Gil-Botella, S Gilligan, C Girerd, A Giri, D Gnani, O Gogota, M Gold, S Gollapinni, K Gollwitzer, RA Gomes, L Gomez Bermeo, LS Gomez Fajardo, F Gonnella, D Gonz谩lez Caama帽o, D Gonzalez-Diaz, M Gonzalez-Lopez, MC Goodman, O Goodwin, S Goswami, C Gotti, E Goudzovski, C Grace, R Gran, E Granados, P Granger, C Grant, D Gratieri, P Green, S Green, S Greenberg, L Greenler, J Greer, J Grenard, C Griffith, M Groh, J Grudzinski, K Grzelak, W Gu, E Guardincerri, V Guarino, M Guarise, R Guenette, E Guerard, M Guerzoni, D Guffanti, A 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Wallis, T Walton, H Wang, J Wang, L Wang, MH Wang, X Wang, Y Wang, Y Wang, K Warburton, D Warner, M Wascko, D Waters, A Watson, K Wawrowska, P Weatherly, A Weber, M Weber, H Wei, A Weinstein, D Wenman, M Wetstein, A White, LH Whitehead, D Whittington, MJ Wilking, A Wilkinson, C Wilkinson, Z Williams, F Wilson, RJ Wilson, W Wisniewski, J Wolcott, T Wongjirad, A Wood, K Wood, E Worcester, M Worcester, K Wresilo, C Wret, W Wu, W Wu, Y Xiao, B Yaeggy, E Yandel, G Yang, K Yang, T Yang, A Yankelevich, N Yershov, K Yonehara, Y Yoon, T Young, B Yu, H Yu, H Yu, J Yu, Y Yu, W Yuan, R Zaki, J Zalesak, L Zambelli, B Zamorano, A Zani, L Zazueta, G Zeller, J Zennamo, K Zeug, C Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, M Zhao, E Zhivun, G Zhu, ED Zimmerman, S Zucchelli, J Zuklin, V Zutshi, R Zwaska

A Spectroscopic Thermometer: Individual Vibrational Band Spectroscopy with the Example of OH in the Atmosphere of WASP-33b

The Astronomical Journal IOP Publishing 166:2 (2023) 41-41

Authors:

Sam OM Wright, Stevanus K Nugroho, Matteo Brogi, Neale P Gibson, Ernst JW de Mooij, Ingo Waldmann, Jonathan Tennyson, Hajime Kawahara, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Yui Kawashima, Kento Masuda, Jayne L Birkby, Chris A Watson, Motohide Tamura, Konstanze Zwintz, Hiroki Harakawa, Tomoyuki Kudo, Klaus Hodapp, Shane Jacobson, Mihoko Konishi, Takashi Kurokawa, Jun Nishikawa, Masashi Omiya

Abstract:

The ExoMol database (www.exomol.com) provides molecular data for spectroscopic studies of hot atmospheres. These data are widely used to model atmospheres of exoplanets, cool stars and other astronomical objects, as well as a variety of terrestrial applications. The 2024 data release reports the current status of the database which contains recommended line lists for 91 molecules and 224 isotopologues giving a total of almost 10$^{12}$ individual transitions. New features of the database include extensive "MARVELization" of line lists to allow them to be used for high resolutions studies, extension of several line lists to ultraviolet wavelengths, provision of photodissociation cross sections and extended provision of broadening parameters. Some of the in-house data specifications have been rewritten in JSON and moved to conformity with other international standards. Data products, including specific heats, a database of lifetimes for plasma studies, and the ExoMolHR web app which allows exclusively high resolution data to be extracted, are discussed

The role of grain size in active galactic nuclei torus dust models

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 676 (2023) A73-A73

Authors:

Omaira Gonz谩lez-Mart铆n, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Jacopo Fritz, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Sebastian F H枚nig, Patrick F Roche, Donaji Esparza-Arredondo, Ismael Garc铆a-Bernete, Santiago Garc铆a-Burillo, Natalia Osorio-Clavijo, Ulises Reyes-Amador, Marko Stalevski, C茅sar Victoria-Ceballos

Abstract:

Fits the infrared spectra from the nuclear regions of AGN can place constraints on the dust properties, distribution, and geometry by comparison with models. However, none of the currently available models fully describe the observations of AGN currently available. Among the aspects least explored, here we focus on the role of dust grain size. We offer the community a new spectral energy distribution (SED) library, hereinafter [GoMar23] model, which is based on the two-phase torus model developed before with the inclusion of the grain size as a model parameter, parameterized by the maximum grain size Psize or equivalently the mass-weighted average grain size . We created 691,200 SEDs using the SKIRT code, where the maximum grain size can vary within the range Psize = 0.01 - 10.0um ( = 0.007 - 3.41um). We fit this new and several existing libraries to a sample of 68 nearby and luminous AGNs with Spitzer/IRS spectra dominated by AGN-heated dust. We find that the [GoMar23] model can adequately reproduce up to 85-88% of the spectra. The dust grain size parameter significantly improves the final fit in up to 90% of these spectra. Statistical tests indicate that the grain size is the third most important parameter in the fitting procedure (after the size and half opening angle of the torus). The requirement of a foreground extinction by our model is lower compared to purely clumpy models. We find that 41% of our sample requires that the maximum dust grain size is as large as Psize =10um (= 3.41um). Nonetheless, we also remark that disk+wind and clumpy torus models are still required to reproduce the spectra of a non-negligible fraction of objects, suggesting the need for several dust geometries to explain the infrared continuum of AGN. This work provides tentative evidence for dust grain growth in the proximity of the AGN.Comment: 26 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in A&