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A Comprehensive Reanalysis of K2-18 b’s JWST NIRISS+NIRSpec Transmission Spectrum

  • Authors: Stephen P. Schmidt, Ryan J. MacDonald, Shang-Min Tsai, Michael Radica, Le-Chris Wang, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Taylor J. Bell, Chloe Fisher, Daniel P. Thorngren, Nicholas Wogan, Erin M. May, Piero Ferrari, Katherine A. Bennett, Zafar Rustamkulov, Mercedes López-Morales, David K. Sing

Stephen P. Schmidt et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 13.

Potential interior compositions for K2-18 b given our retrieval analysis. The green shaded region on the ternary diagram shows an MCMC posterior of compositions consistent with K2-18 b’s mass, radius, host star flux, atmosphere metallicity (∼30% CH4), and system age. We group methane with water as volatile species for analysis in terms of ice-to-rock ratios, but is physically located in the H/He layer in our model. The three cases discussed in Section 5.2 are circled and labeled. The inset shows the posterior histogram of the log(H/He) mass fraction, with the amount permitting a liquid water ocean (shaded region) containing only 0.58% of our posterior. Above that, the water layer is a supercritical-fluid.

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