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Revisiting the Energy Budget of WASP-43b: Enhanced Day–Night Heat Transport

  • Authors: Dylan Keating, and Nicolas B. Cowan

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 849 L5.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Degeneracy between thermal emission and reflected light for WASP-43b (Stevenson et al. 2014, 2017). The 1σ constraints from two published eclipse depths are shown. When ﹩{A}_{g}=0﹩, only thermal emission contributes to the eclipse depth. As Ag is increased, the amount of thermal emission decreases and, consequently, so does Tday. Only two wavelengths are shown here for clarity, but the following trend holds: the Spitzer IRAC eclipse depth lines never touch the horizontal axis for physically possible values of geometric albedo, meaning Spitzer measurements require thermal emission regardless of the value of Ag. For the HST/WFC3 measurements, the eclipse depths can be attributed solely to reflected light if the geometric albedo is ∼40%. It may not be safe to ignore reflected light in the HST/WFC3 1.1–1.7 μm bandpass.

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