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EARL (Exoplanet Analytic Reflected Lightcurves) computes the analytic form of a reflected lightcurve, given a spherical harmonic decomposition of the planet albedo map and the viewing and orbital geometries. The EARL Mathematica notebook allows rapid computation of reflected lightcurves, thus making lightcurve numerical experiments accessible.
exocartographer solves the exo-cartography inverse problem. This flexible forward-modeling framework, written in Python, retrieves the albedo map and spin geometry of a planet based on time-resolved photometry; it uses a Markov chain Monte Carlo method to extract albedo maps and planet spin and their uncertainties. Gaussian Processes use the data to fit for the characteristic length scale of the map and enforce smooth maps.
Cloud Killer recovers surface albedo maps by using reflected light photometry to map the clouds and surface of unresolved exoplanets. For light curves with negligible photometric uncertainties, the minimal top-of-atmosphere albedo at a location is a good estimate of its surface albedo. On synthetic data, it shows little bias, good precision, and accuracy, but slightly underestimated uncertainties; exoplanets with large, changing cloud structures observed near quadrature phases are good candidates for Cloud Killer cloud removal.
ATOCA (Algorithm to Treat Order Contamination) extracts and decontaminates spectroscopic images with multiple sources or diffraction orders. For all orders and sources, the package takes the wavelength solutions, the trace profiles, the throughputs, and the spectral resolution kernels as input. From these, ATOCA simultaneously models the detector and extracts the spectra.
APPLESOSS (A Producer of ProfiLEs for SOSS) builds 2D spatial profiles for the first, second, and third diffraction orders for a NIRISS/SOSS GR700XD/CLEAR observation. The profiles are entirely data driven, retain a high level of fidelity to the original observations, and can be used as the specprofile reference file for ATOCA (ascl:2502.016). They can also be used as a PSF weighting for optimal extractions.