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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 7.

Investigating the abundances of CO2 on WASP-107 b’s evening and morning limbs. We performed a χ2 comparison between our observed limb spectra and model spectra with varying CO2 abundance, focusing on the ∼4.5 μm feature in NIRCam/F444W. Panel (A) shows the evening-limb spectrum with all models consistent within the 68% confidence level, and panel (B) shows the same for the morning-limb spectrum. Panel (C) shows the full results of these tests, plotting the χ2 value, relative to the minimum, as a function of the input CO2 abundance for both 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 CO2 abundances previously inferred for WASP-107 b from the limb-combined spectrum in the literature.

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