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Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon and Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b

  • Authors: Reza Ashtari, Sean Collins, Jared Splinter, Kevin B. Stevenson, Vivien Parmentier, Jonathan Brande, Suman Saha, Sarah Stamer, Ian J. M. Crossfield, James S. Jenkins, K. Angelique Kahle, Joshua D. Lothringer, Nishil Mehta, Nicolas B. Cowan, Diana Dragomir, Laura Kreidberg, Mercedes López-Morales, Thomas M. Evans-Soma, Emma Esparza-Borges, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Hayley Beltz, Tansu Daylan, Olivia Venot, Jason Pero, Xi Zhang

Reza Ashtari et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Comparison of the species and cloud posterior distributions for the cloud-free and cloudy (gray cloud deck; R. J. MacDonald & N. Madhusudhan 2017) retrieval models for LTT 9779 b’s dayside emission (orbital phase of 180°). The full atmosphere, cloud-free model is shown in purple, while the cloudy model is shown in green. No degeneracies between the H2O, CO, or CO2 abundances and cloud pressure are observed. Furthermore, H2O abundances are comparable between both cloud-free and cloudy models. This indicates the inclusion of a gray cloud deck does not mimic or obscure the molecular absorption signatures in the dayside emission spectrum, and that the detections of H2O, CO, and CO2 are robust to the assumption of clouds.

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