What to Cite

1d spectroscopy

Batalha, Natasha E., et al. “Exoplanet reflected-light spectroscopy with PICASO.” The Astrophysical Journal 878.1 (2019): 70.

  • 1d reflected light

  • 1d thermal emission

  • 1d transmission spectra

Retrievals

Mukherjee, Sagnick, et al. “Cloud Parameterizations and their Effect on Retrievals of Exoplanet Reflection Spectroscopy.” The Astrophysical Journal 910.2 (2021): 158.

  • retrievals (Bayesian spectral inferece)

3D spectroscopy

Adams, Danica J., et al. “Spatially Resolved Modeling of Optical Albedos for a Sample of Six Hot Jupiters.” The Astrophysical Journal 926.2 (2022): 157.

  • 3D spectroscopy calculations

Phase curves

Robbins-Blanch, Nina., et al. “Cloudy and Cloud-free Thermal Phase Curves with PICASO: Applications to WASP-43b.” The Astrophysical Journal (2022): 157.

  • Thermal phase curves

Hamill C.~D., Johnson A.~V., Batalha N., Nag R., Gao P., Adams D., Kataria T., 2024, ApJ, 976, 181. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad7de6

  • Reflected phase curves

1D Climate Models

Mukherjee, et al. “PICASO 3.0: A One-Dimensional Climate Model for Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs.” The Astrophysical Journal (2023): 157.

  • 1D climate models of substellar atmospheres

`Mang, et al. "PICASO 4.0: Clouds and Photochemistry in Climate Models of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets"`_

  • 1D disequilibrium models of substellar atmospheres

  • 1D cloudy models of substellar atmospheres

  • 1D photochemical models of substellar atmospheres

  • 1D climate models with energy injection

Grid fits

The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, et al. “Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere.” Nature (2022).

  • Methodology for fitting picaso model grids to data

Chemistry

Marley, Mark S.,Saumon, Didier, Visscher, Channon et al. “The Sonora Brown Dwarf Atmosphere and Evolution Models. I. Model Description and Application to Cloudless Atmospheres in Rainout Chemical Equilibrium” ApJ (2021).

  • Use of the chemeq_visscher functions

`Mang, et al. "PICASO 4.0: Clouds and Photochemistry in Climate Models of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets"`_

  • Use of the 2121 chemistry grid (chemeq_visscher_2121 chemistry)

Wogan, et al. “The Open-source Photochem Code: A General Chemical and Climate Model for Interpreting (Exo)Planet Observations”

  • 1D photochemical modeling

Clouds

Batalha, Natasha E., et al. “Condensation Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres with Virga.” The Astrophysical Journal (2026)

  • Virga cloud models

Moran, Sarah; Lodge, Matt, et al. “Fractal Aggregate Aerosols in the Virga Cloud Code. I. Model Description and Application to a Benchmark Cloudy Exoplanet.” The Astrophysical Journal (2025)

  • Virga cloud models with aggregate particles