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K2-18b Does Not Meet the Standards of Evidence for Life

  • Authors: Kevin B. Stevenson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, E. M. May, Ravi K. Kopparapu, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Mary Anne Limbach, Edward W. Schwieterman, Kristin S. Sotzen, Shang-Min Tsai

Kevin B. Stevenson et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

An overview of MIRI retrieval results for different pixel shift cases (rows) using 8 pixel wide channels. The left column of each row shows a measured transit spectrum along with the median retrieved spectral model within representative 1σ and 2σ credibility envelopes. The right subpanels show the inferred 1D marginalized posterior distributions for the isothermal temperature (T), DMS, DMDS, and C2H5Cl (chloroethane). Critically, different pixel shift selections lead to different preferences for which gases best fit the spectrum and are constrained, with a trichotomy exhibited here between no abundance constraints (shifts 0, 4, and 7), constraints on DMS+DMDS (shift 5), or constraints on chloroethane (shifts 1, 2, 3, and 6).

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