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Supersolar Metallicity and Tentative Evidence for Photochemistry on WASP-96 b from JWST and Ground-based VLT Transmission Spectroscopy

  • Authors: Michael Radica, Jake Taylor, Yoav Rotman, Jasmina Blecic, Luis Welbanks, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Duncan Christie, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Gillis Lowry, Matthew M. Murphy, Adina D. Feinstein, David Lafrenière, Ryan J. MacDonald, Nathan J. Mayne, Shang-Min Tsai, Maria Zamyatina

Michael Radica et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

WASP-96 b’s morning and evening limb transmission spectra as observed with JWST. Top: the morning-limb transmission spectrum (blue data points) compared to the evening limb spectrum (faded red). Overplotted in purple is the morning-limb spectrum from the aerosol-free, 10× solar UM GCM run (see Appendix C). Blue and gray shaded rectangles denote the in-band and out-of-band wavelengths, respectively, for the H2O and CO2 band amplitude calculations (see Section 5.1). Middle: inverse of the above, focusing on the evening limb spectrum. Bottom: fitting midtransit time as a function of wavelength assuming a uniform-limb (i.e., batman) planet (black points). In green is the T0 spectrum derived from the asymmetric catwoman fits using the formalism of M. M. Murphy et al. (2024a).

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