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Session: Stars, Planets and the Interstellar Medium

Name: Dr. Tsiaras Angelos (INAF - Arcetri)
Coauthors: No coauthors were included.
Type: Oral
Title: Towards population studies of exoplanets in the era of JWST and Ariel
Abstract:

In the last 15 years, significant progress has been made in the field of atmospheric characterisation of exoplanets, utilising the most advanced instruments both on the ground and in space. Today, we are entering an era of very exiting prospects for the field of exoplanet characterisation. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has successfully started operations, while ESA's M4 mission, Ariel, has been adopted and is planned to fly in 2029. This era will be characterised by the large volume of data that will be delivered from the new observatories. In my talk I will discuss the challenges we have to face in order to analyse the large data volume expected in the next decade: catalogues, open-source codes and follow-up observations. I will present a next-generation pipeline for the analysis of exoplanet spectroscopic observations, together with the first implementation on JWST data from the ERS program and a comparison between the HST and JWST results. Finally, I will present the progress in the ExoClock project, a pro-am collaboration with the aim of following up transiting exoplanets and contributing in preparation of the Ariel observations.