From HST to JWST - New tools to analyse exoplanet spectrocopic observations from space

<p>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 been successfully launched, deployed and aligned, while ESA’s M4 mission, Ariel, has been adopted and is planned to fly in 2029.</p> <p>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. I will discuss the lessons learnt in the past years using the Wide Field Camera 3 on HST - the most successful instrument for exoplanet characterisation - and I will present a next-generation pipeline for the analysis of exoplanet spectroscopic observations, together with the first implementation on JWST data.</p>