index.rst

HELIOS-K

HELIOS-K calculates opacity functions for planetary atmopheres by using opacity line lists from different databases. Before the opacity functions can be calculated, the line lists need to be downloaded and preprocessed into binary files that can be read from HELIOS-K.
HELIOS-K provides tools to automatically download and preprocess files from the ExoMol, HITRAN, HITEMP, NIST, Kurucz and VALD3 databases.
HELIOS-K is running on GPUs and require a Nvidia GPU with compute capability of 3.0 or higher.

Developed by Simon Grimm & Kevin Heng.
University of Bern.

Setup

helios_k/compilation.rst

Databases

helios_k/param.rst helios_k/exomol.rst helios_k/exomolSuperlines.rst helios_k/hitran.rst helios_k/hitemp.rst helios_k/kurucz.rst helios_k/nist.rst helios_k/vald.rst helios_k/crosssections.rst

Running HELIOS-K

helios_k/heliosk.rst

OPTIONS

helios_k/profiles.rst helios_k/subLorentzian.rst helios_k/cut.rst helios_k/plinth.rst helios_k/bins.rst helios_k/resampling.rst helios_k/options.rst helios_k/transmission.rst helios_k/mean.rst

Output Files

helios_k/output.rst

Atomic Opacities plots

helios_k/atoms.rst

Citations

If you make use of HELIOS-K in your work, please cite

Grimm et Al. (2021):

@ARTICLE{2021ApJS..253...30G,
       author = {{Grimm}, Simon L. and {Malik}, Matej and {Kitzmann}, Daniel and {Guzm{\'a}n-Mesa}, Andrea and {Hoeijmakers}, H. Jens and {Fisher}, Chloe and {Mendon{\c{c}}a}, Jo{\~a}o M. and {Yurchenko}, Sergey N. and {Tennyson}, Jonathan and {Alesina}, Fabien and {Buchschacher}, Nicolas and {Burnier}, Julien and {Segransan}, Damien and {Kurucz}, Robert L. and {Heng}, Kevin},
    title = "{HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres}",
      journal = {\apjs},
     keywords = {Exoplanet atmospheres, 487, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
     year = 2021,
    month = mar,
       volume = {253},
       number = {1},
      eid = {30},
    pages = {30},
      doi = {10.3847/1538-4365/abd773},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2101.02005},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJS..253...30G},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

or

Grimm & Heng (2015):

@ARTICLE{2015ApJ...808..182G,
       author = {{Grimm}, Simon L. and {Heng}, Kevin},
        title = "{HELIOS-K: An Ultrafast, Open-source Opacity Calculator for Radiative Transfer}",
      journal = {\apj},
     keywords = {methods: numerical, planets and satellites: atmospheres, radiative transfer, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics},
         year = "2015",
        month = "Aug",
       volume = {808},
       number = {2},
          eid = {182},
        pages = {182},
          doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/182},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {1503.03806},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...808..182G},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}