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Caption: Figure 1.
Flux ratios (solid line) of the five 55 Cnc system planets to the host star, where the surface of the e planet is assumed to be rocky with a geometric albedo of 0.1. The timescale in each plot has been set to show one complete orbital phase of planets e (top left), b (top right), c (bottom left), and f (bottom right). In each plot, the dashed line indicates the normalized phase function for the planet on which the figure is phased (see Section 4.1). These plots show that the combined phase signatures of all five planets are dominated by the two innermost planets (top left), beyond which little information can be extracted for the others without exquisite photometric precision.
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