Welcome to the GSFC Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center (EMAC)
EMAC serves as a catalog, repository and integration platform for modeling and analysis resources focused on the study of exoplanet characteristics and environments. EMAC is a key project of the GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC).
If you've used EMAC in any part of your research, please cite our RNAAS paper either in your methods section or in the "Software used" portion of any manuscripts; see the FAQ for more information.
More Information on EMAC for first-time visitors...If you make use of tools linked or hosted on EMAC: please use the following statement in your publication acknowledgements: “This research made use of the NASA Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center (EMAC), which is funded by the NASA Planetary Science Division’s Internal Scientist Funding Model.”
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- EMAC is intended as a clearinghouse for the whole research community interested in exoplanets, where any software or model developer can submit their tool/model or their model output as a contribution for others to use.
- EMAC provides a searchable and sortable database for available source code and data output files - both resources hosted locally by EMAC as well as existing external tools and repositories hosted elsewhere.
- The EMAC team also helps develop new web interfaces for tools that can be run “on-demand” or model grids that can be interpolated for more individualized results.
- If you would like to submit a new tool/model to EMAC, please visit our Submit a Resource page.
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- Watch this video for a walk-through of the whole EMAC site, including how to submit a new tool and how to access information for each resource.
The P.I. is Avi Mandell, and the Deputy P.I. is Eric Lopez; more information on EMAC staffing and organization can be found on Our Team page.
StaggerGrid: A Grid of 3D stellar spectra with StaggerCode
Chiavassa, A.; Casagrande, L.; Collet, R.; Magic, Z.; Bigot, L.; Thévenin, F.; Asplund, M.
StaggerCode is a 3D radiation-hydrodynamic (RHD) simulation code for convection at the surface of late-type stars. The code solves the full set of hydrodynamical equations for the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy coupled to an accurate treatment of the radiative transfer. StaggerCode uses a realistic equation-of-state that accounts for ionization, recombination, and dissociation and both continuous and line opacities. Model atmosphere grids, which we call StaggerGrid, were performed with the StaggerCode for a range of temperature from 4000 to 7000 K; log(g) from 1.5 to +5.0; and metallicity of [Fe/H] = +0.5 to -4.0.
The grid is available online at the Pollux database.