To interpret next generation exoplanet observations successfully and robustly, the community needs access to validated & up-to-date opacities. This was the motivation for the MAESTRO (Molecules and Atoms in (Exo)Planet Science: Tools and Resources for Opacities) database, a NASA-supported opacity service that can be accessed by the community via a web interface. The MAESTRO project aims to develop community standards in computing and publishing opacity data. This is because subtle choices in opacities lead to model inconsistencies in the analysis of both high-resolution (R>10,000) and low resolution (JWST-like) observations. MAESTRO (Molecules and Atoms in (Exo)Planet Spectroscopy: Tools and Resources for Opcaities) is designed to help you find the data you need, as well as understand how the data was created.
https://science.data.nasa.gov/opacities/app/
We welcome contributions and encourage you to reach out before computing data. This ensures compliance with our current standards. Interested groups should follow our contribution guidelines are available here: https://github.com/opacities/submit-data
- Search for opacities by molecule or atom
- Visualize opacity data
- Compare opacities accross temperature and pressure
- Compare opacity accross different molecules
- Query and download opacity data
- Automatic citation builders (BibTex and Overleaf)
- Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames)
- Nikole Lewis (Cornell University)
- Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad (NASA Ames)
- Katy Chubb (University of St Andrews)
- Richard Freedman (SETI)
- Iouli Gordon (HITRAN/Harvard)
- Rob Hargreaves (HITRAN/Harvard)
- Clara Sousa-Silva (Bard College)
- Jonathan Tennyson (ExoMol/University College London)
- Jeff Valenti (STScI)
- Sergey Yurchenko (ExoMol/University College London)
- Ryan MacDonald (University of Michigan)
If you have any feedback or issues, please reach out to us at [email protected].