The NEMESIS planetary atmosphere radiative transfer and retrieval tool

By P. Irwin, Nicholas A. Teanby, Remco J. de Kok, L. Fletcher, C. Howett, C. Tsang, Colin F. Wilson, S. Calcutt, C. Nixon, P. Parrish. 2008

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Spectroscopy

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 ?> -REx. II. RETRIEVAL OF EMISSION SPECTRA (2015, methodology): “…of planetary atmospheres in our solar system has been a long story of success (e.g. Wark & Hilleary 1969; Conrath et al. 1970; Hanel et al. 1972; Conrath et al. 1973; Rodgers 1976; Hanel et al. 1981; Fletcher et al. 2007; Irwin et al. 2008) as well as Hanel et al. (2003), and references therein.”
An Accurate, Extensive, and Practical Line List of Methane for the HITEMP Database (2020, methodology): “The HITRAN and HITEMP parameters undergo rigorous validations against observations (Olsen et al. 2019; Hargreaves et al. 2019) and are regularly used in radiative transfer codes such as LBLRTM (Clough et al. 2005), NEMESIS (Irwin et al. 2008), the Reference Forward Model (Dudhia 2017), RADIS (Pannie”
The ExoMol database: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres (2016, methodology): “These data are formatted for use in various retrieval codes including Tau- REx [13–15], ARCiS [24], petitRADTRANS [28], and NEMESIS [17].”
A SYSTEMATIC RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY ECLIPSE SPECTRA. I. A COMPARISON OF ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES (2013, methodology): “Following Irwin et al. 2008 we minimize equation 1 with Newton’s iteration method given by xi+1 = xa + S −1 a K T i (KiS −1 a K T i + S −1 e ) (F(x)− y −Ki(xa − xi)) (2) where i is the iteration index and Ki is the Jacobian matrix at i (Knm = ∂Fn ∂xm ).”
A DETECTION OF WATER IN THE TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM OF THE HOT JUPITER WASP-12b AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION (2015, methodology): “We also present a comparison with results from the NEMESIS retrieval code (Irwin et al. 2008).”
Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e (2020, methodology): “…total k-table, we use the standard assumption for the on-the-fly combination of the opacities of different absorbers (see, e.g., Lacis & Oinas 1991; Irwin et al. 2008; Mollière et al. 2015; Amundsen et al. 2017), namely that their opacity distribution functions are independent (also called “random…”
TAU-REX I: A NEXT GENERATION RETRIEVAL CODE FOR EXOPLANETARY ATMOSPHERES (2014, unknown): “E P] 8 S ep 2 trieval modelling (e.g. Fletcher et al. 2007; Terrile et al. 2008; Irwin et al. 2008; Madhusudhan & Seager 2009; Lee et al. 2011; Line et al. 2012; Benneke & Seager 2012; Griffith 2014) has become the industry standard.”
Optimal estimation retrievals of the atmospheric structure and composition of HD 189733b from secondary eclipse spectroscopy (2011, methodology): “…function ofg, it may be integrated with relatively few quadrature pointsN to determine the mean transmission over the interval as: T̄ (m) ≃ N∑ i=1 e−kim∆gi, wherem is the amount of a molecule; andki and∆gi are the k-coefficients and quadrature weights at each quadrature point (Irwin et al. 2008).”
The 2020 release of the ExoMol database: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres (2020, methodology): “ExoMol data have been incorporated into many radiative transfer and retrieval codes including Tau-REx [13–15], Phoenix [16], NEMESIS [17], CHIMERA [18], HELIOS [19] and HELIOS-r2 [20], ATMO [21–23], ARCiS [24], ARTES [25], HyDRA [26], GENESIS [27], petitRADTRANS [28], PLATON [29], VSTAR [30, 31], BA”
Exoplanet Reflected-light Spectroscopy with PICASO (2019, methodology): “An additional branch of models, used for Solar System/Earth science also exists to compute reflected light from planetary atmospheres (NEMESIS, Irwin et al. (2008); DISORT, Stamnes et al. (1988); PSG, Villanueva et al. (2018)).”
A CONSISTENT RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS OF 10 HOT JUPITERS OBSERVED IN TRANSMISSION (2016, methodology): “For this work, we use the NEMESIS radiative transfer and retrieval code, initially developed for solar system planets (Irwin et al. 2008) and subsequently used in several analyses of transiting exoplanet atmospheres (Lee et al. 2012; Barstow et al. 2013b, 2014; Lee et al. 2014).”