The Venus Benchmark: Resolving Degeneracies in Terrestrial Exoplanet Spectra with DAVINCI

arXiv:2609.00147 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-09-10

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Descent Sphere — 5× in this paper
• Venus Zone — 4× in this paper
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Spectral Signature — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation — 1× in this paper
• Venus Mass Spectrometer — 1× in this paper
• Venus Tunable Laser Spectrometer — 1× in this paper

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