{
  "id": 536474,
  "title": "Question On What We Are Predicting",
  "url": "/competitions/ariel-data-challenge-2024/discussion/536474",
  "author_name": "KaiH",
  "post_date": "2024-09-27T17:28:43.634000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>What are we Predicting in this competition. I understand that we have numbers and there is a file to what we should be predicting, but what are these numbers representing. Is it the percent of light of each wavelength being blocked by the planet? How is this useful for atmospheric analysis? </p>\n<p>So if the planet has no atmosphere, I'm assuming each wavelength will be equally blocked by the planet's rock. This is also true with planets with atmospheres with a certain composition of gasses. Also things such as blackbody radiation can affect these values.</p>\n<p><strong>To sum up:</strong><br>\nI'm assuming that we are predicting the percent of each wavelength being blocked by the exoplanet. Is this true? And are the competition owners going to compare the percent wavelength blocked to the other wavelengths to determine the atmosphere composition?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 3001350,
      "postDate": "2024-09-28T18:13:31.963Z",
      "content": "<p>Yes we are predicting the change of flux for each wavelength when the planet is in transit (in front of the star). If a planet is purely rock then the flux change should be somewhat constant between all wavelengths but if the planet is gaseous or has an atmosphere, the gasses will block more or less of each wavelength.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes we are predicting the change of flux for each wavelength when the planet is in transit (in front of the star). If a planet is purely rock then the flux change should be somewhat constant between all wavelengths but if the planet is gaseous or has an atmosphere, the gasses will block more or less of each wavelength.",
      "votes": 6
    },
    {
      "id": 3000505,
      "postDate": "2024-09-27T17:28:43.633Z",
      "content": "<p>What are we Predicting in this competition. I understand that we have numbers and there is a file to what we should be predicting, but what are these numbers representing. Is it the percent of light of each wavelength being blocked by the planet? How is this useful for atmospheric analysis? </p>\n<p>So if the planet has no atmosphere, I'm assuming each wavelength will be equally blocked by the planet's rock. This is also true with planets with atmospheres with a certain composition of gasses. Also things such as blackbody radiation can affect these values.</p>\n<p><strong>To sum up:</strong><br>\nI'm assuming that we are predicting the percent of each wavelength being blocked by the exoplanet. Is this true? And are the competition owners going to compare the percent wavelength blocked to the other wavelengths to determine the atmosphere composition?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What are we Predicting in this competition. I understand that we have numbers and there is a file to what we should be predicting, but what are these numbers representing. Is it the percent of light of each wavelength being blocked by the planet? How is this useful for atmospheric analysis? \n\nSo if the planet has no atmosphere, I'm assuming each wavelength will be equally blocked by the planet's rock. This is also true with planets with atmospheres with a certain composition of gasses. Also things such as blackbody radiation can affect these values.\n\n**To sum up:**\nI'm assuming that we are predicting the percent of each wavelength being blocked by the exoplanet. Is this true? And are the competition owners going to compare the percent wavelength blocked to the other wavelengths to determine the atmosphere composition?",
      "votes": 1
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3001350,
      "author_name": "Natan Labarrère",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2024-09-28T18:13:31.963000",
      "content": "<p>Yes we are predicting the change of flux for each wavelength when the planet is in transit (in front of the star). If a planet is purely rock then the flux change should be somewhat constant between all wavelengths but if the planet is gaseous or has an atmosphere, the gasses will block more or less of each wavelength.</p>",
      "votes": 6,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "3001350": "Yes we are predicting the change of flux for each wavelength when the planet is in transit (in front of the star). If a planet is purely rock then the flux change should be somewhat constant between all wavelengths but if the planet is gaseous or has an atmosphere, the gasses will block more or less of each wavelength.",
    "3000505": "What are we Predicting in this competition. I understand that we have numbers and there is a file to what we should be predicting, but what are these numbers representing. Is it the percent of light of each wavelength being blocked by the planet? How is this useful for atmospheric analysis? \n\nSo if the planet has no atmosphere, I'm assuming each wavelength will be equally blocked by the planet's rock. This is also true with planets with atmospheres with a certain composition of gasses. Also things such as blackbody radiation can affect these values.\n\n**To sum up:**\nI'm assuming that we are predicting the percent of each wavelength being blocked by the exoplanet. Is this true? And are the competition owners going to compare the percent wavelength blocked to the other wavelengths to determine the atmosphere composition?"
  }
}