Thermodynamics, Disequilibrium and Evolution focus group
12-16 Oct 2015 Nice (France)
The Open-source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) Code to Model Exoplanet Atmospheres
Patricio Cubillos  1@  , Joseph Harrington  1@  , Jasmina Blecic  1@  , Patricio Rojo  2@  , Madison Stemm  1@  , Nathaniel Lust  1@  , Andrew S. Foster  1@  , Andrew J. Foster  1@  , Ryan Challener  1@  , Sarah Blumenthal  3@  , Thomas Loredo  4@  
1 : University of Central Florida [Orlando]  -  Website
4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816 -  United States
2 : Universidad de Chile [Santiago]  -  Website
v. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 1058, Santiago -  Chile
3 : Planetary Sciences Group, University of Central Florida [Orlando]  -  Website
4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816 -  United States
4 : Cornell University
91709 – Cornell University – Ithaca, New York 14853 US -  United States

Multi-wavelength secondary-eclipse and transit depths probe the thermochemical properties of exoplanet atmospheres. In recent years, several research groups have developed retrieval codes to analyze the existing Spitzer, HST, and ground-based data and study the prospects of future facilities. However, the scientific community has limited access to these packages. Here we present the open-source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) code (github.com/exosports/BART). We will discuss the key aspects of the BART components: the Thermochemical Equilibrium Abundances code, TEA (github.com/dzesmin/TEA), to calculate species mixing ratios by minimizing the system's Gibbs free energy; the one-dimensional line-by-line radiative-transfer code, Transit (github.com/exosports/transit), to calculate transmission or emission spectra; and the statistical package Multi-core Markov-chain Monte Carlo, MC3 (github.com/pcubillos/MCcubed), to estimate best-fitting parameters and posterior sampling using Bayesian principles. We apply the BART retrieval code to the HAT-P-11b transmission data to constrain the planet's molecular composition. We will compare our results against those of Fraine et al. (2014).



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