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JWST Spectral Retrieval of Cold Directly Imaged Planet WD 0806 b and the First Measurement of Altitude-dependent Kzz in Exoplanet Atmospheres

  • Authors: Ben W.P. Lew, Thomas Roellig, Natasha E. Batalha, Nicholas F. Wogan, Thomas Greene, Mark S. Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney, Jarron Leisenring, Doug Johnstone, Matthew De Furio, Klaus Hodapp, Charles Beichman, Marcia Rieke

Ben W.P. Lew et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Bottom-left panel: the derived ﹩\mathrm{log}({K}_{zz})﹩ of CO, CH4, and NH3 as a function of quenched pressures based on the temperature–pressure profile and abundances from the 500 posterior samples of the PICASO retrieval. The median values of ﹩\mathrm{log}({K}_{zz})﹩ and quenched pressures of are plotted in colored dashed lines. CO2 has the lowest median Kzz among the three species and has the lowest quenched pressure (22 bar) while ﹩\mathrm{log}({K}_{zz})﹩ of CO is the highest with a median quenched pressure of 47 bar. The derived ﹩\mathrm{log}({K}_{zz})﹩ of the three molecules increase with higher quenched pressures. Top-left and bottom-right panels: the histograms of the derived Kzz and quenched pressures are plotted in the top-left and bottom-right panels, respectively. See the text in Section 3.5.2 for details about the derivation of Kzz.

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