Synthetic Exoplanet Transit Light Curves for CHEOPS Noise Analysis

S. Sulis from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique created publicly available artificial exoplanet transit light curves. The data was generated for HMI observations and is described in a paper from 2020. The repository contains synthetic data intended for analyzing flicker noise in high-precision photometry.

Use Cases

• Characterizing flicker noise structure in photometric data based on the synthetic light curves
• Assessing the impact of noise on inferred exoplanet transit parameters based on the artificial data
• Validating noise mitigation algorithms for high-precision photometry based on the simulated CHEOPS observations

Strengths

• Data is publicly available and generated for a specific scientific purpose (HMI observations)
• Associated with a peer-reviewed paper (Sulis et al., 2020) providing context and methodology

Limitations

• Row count, file formats, and column-level documentation are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

S. Sulis, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Collection Method

Artificially generated light curves for HMI observations