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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 9.

The temperature gradient (dlnT/dlnP) of the best-fit retrieval solution, which is plotted with the orange line, are subadiabatic (dlnT/dlnP < 0.3) in the 1–10 bar range, which could imply a low cooling rate at depth. See Section 4.3 for more detailed discussion. At P > ∼10 bar, the T-P profiles are not well constrained. The blue semitransparent lines show the temperature gradient calculated from 1000 T-P profiles randomly sampled from the retrieval posterior distribution. The blue dots are the T-P knots in the PICASO retrieval. For comparison, we also plot the T-P profiles of cloudless (black dashed and solid lines, Sonora Bobcat; M. S. Marley et al. 2021) and cloudy (green solid lines; C. V. Morley et al. 2012) forward model with an effective temperature of 400 K similar to WD 0806 b, but with different metallicity ([M/H] = [ −0.5, 0.0]), gravity (﹩\mathrm{log}(g)=[4.0,4.5]﹩), or sulfide cloud structures (fsed = [2, 3, 5]). Both cloudless and cloudy models show that the temperature gradients closely follow an adiabat (i.e., dlnT/dlnP ∼ 0.3) at pressures greater than 1 bar.

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