Atmospheric Modelling and Retrieval

TL;DR

This review summarizes current methods and applications of atmospheric modeling and retrieval for exoplanets, highlighting open questions, recent progress, and future challenges in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art 1D and multi-D atmospheric models, emphasizing their development, applications, and future directions.

Findings

Advances in self-consistent and retrieval models for exoplanet atmospheres.

Integration of stellar and solar system atmospheric modeling expertise.

Identification of key challenges and future opportunities in atmospheric characterization.

Abstract

This brief review focuses on methods and applications of modeling exoplanetary atmospheres. We discuss various kinds of state of the art self-consistent and retrieval models in 1D and multi-D with a focus on open questions and short- and long-term goals in the field. Expertise previously developed in modeling cool stellar atmospheres and in modeling solar system planetary atmospheres has proven valuable to the field, and will continue to do so. We described upcoming opportunities for making progress in our understanding of atmospheres, and close with what we see as the field's challenges.