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A Panchromatic Characterization of the Evening and Morning Atmosphere of WASP-107 b: Composition and Cloud Variations, and Insight into the Effect of Stellar Contamination

  • Authors: Matthew M. Murphy, Thomas G. Beatty, Everett Schlawin, Taylor J. Bell, Michael Radica, Thomas D. Kennedy, Nishil Mehta, Luis Welbanks, Michael R. Line, Vivien Parmentier, Thomas P. Greene, Sagnick Mukherjee, Jonathan J. Fortney, Kazumasa Ohno, Lindsey Wiser, Kenneth Arnold, Emily Rauscher, Isaac R. Edelman, Marcia J. Rieke

Matthew M. Murphy et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Investigating the abundances of SO2 on WASP-107 b’s evening and morning limbs. We performed a χ2 comparison between our observed limb spectra and model spectra with varying SO2 abundance. Panel (A) shows the evening-limb spectrum from NIRCam F444W and MIRI LRS truncated to points within prominent SO2 features, with all models consistent within the 68% confidence level. Panel (B) shows the same for the morning-limb spectrum, with the points excluded from this calculation due to strong overlapping cloud absorption in MIRI plotted in gray. Panel (C) shows the full results of these tests, plotting the calculated χ2 value, relative to the minimum, as a function of the input SO2 abundance for the evening- (orange) and morning-limb (blue) cases. The corresponding confidence intervals based on J. V. Wall & C. R. Jenkins (2012) are plotted as horizontal lines. For reference, we also show SO2 abundances previously inferred from the limb-combined spectrum in the literature.

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