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Ground-based Reconnaissance Observations of 21 Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager

  • Authors: Ryan J. Oelkers, Luke M. Schmidt, Erika Cook, Mary Anne Limbach, D. L. DePoy, J. L. Marshall, Jimmy Ardoin, Mitchell Barry, Evan Batteas, Alexandra Boone, Brant Conway, Silvana Delgado Adrande, John D. Dixon, Enrique Gonzalez-Vega, Alexandra Guajardo, Landon Holcomb, Christian Lambert, Shravan Menon, Divya Mishra, Jacob Purcell, Zachary Reed, Nathan Sala, Noah Siebersma, Nhu Ngoc Ton, Raenessa M. L. Walker, Z. Franklin Wang, Kaitlin Webber

Ryan J. Oelkers et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 169 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

A visual comparison of transmission spectra measured for various planets during transit (red points) and out of transit (black points). The p-value of the Anderson–Darling test comparing the two measurements is shown in the title of each subfigure. The out-of-transit measurements were generated via 1000 bootstrap simulations where the white-light transit signal (see Table 3) was injected at various times of midtransit and measured the same way as the in-transit data. The top row of planets have a calculated p-value of p < 0.05 indicating the in-transit and out-of-transit data are statistically different from one another. The bottom row of planets have p-values of p > 0.05 indicating they are not statistically dissimilar to the bootstrap simulations. For these planets we additionally compared previous measurements from the Exoplanet Archive with a flat line using the R2 metric. We find the previous measurements all have an R2 < 0.54, which suggests the atmospheric signal is likely consistent with a flat line and the consistency between the in-transit and out-of-transit observations may be because the spectrum is naturally featureless.

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