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Atmospheric Characterization of Six Ultrahot Jupiters from K-band High-resolution Spectroscopy

  • Authors: Luke Finnerty, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin, Jerry W. Xuan, Julie Inglis, Shubh Agrawal, Ashley Baker, Randall Bartos, Geoffrey A. Blake, Benjamin Calvin, Sylvain Cetre, Jacques-Robert Delorme, Greg Doppmann, Daniel Echeverri, Katelyn Horstman, Chih-Chun Hsu, Nemanja Jovanovic, Joshua Liberman, Ronald A. López, Dimitri Mawet, Evan Morris, Jacklyn Pezzato-Rovner, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Ben Sappey, Tobias Schofield, Andrew Skemer, J. Kent Wallace, Nicole L. Wallack, Jason J. Wang, 劲飞 王, Ji Wang, 吉 王

Luke Finnerty et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Derived posteriors for the C/O ratio, carbon and oxygen abundances, total volatile abundance, and iron abundance. Median and ±34% confidence intervals are indicated in solid and dotted red, respectively, and the solar values are shown in dashed–dotted black. The black distribution is computed from the free retrieval, and the blue distribution from the equilibrium retrieval. The retrieved carbon and oxygen abundances are generally consistent with solar to supersolar volatile abundances, but have very large uncertainties that extend from subsolar values to the upper end of the mean molecular weight prior. The Fe abundances are at best weak upper limits. The retrieved C/O ratios are bimodal, preferring either zero or one depending on whether the retrieval prefers low H2O abundances dissociating at high altitudes, resulting in a high C/O, or high H2O abundances and deep dissociation, resulting in a low C/O. The actual retrieved spectra are similar despite the range of C/O ratios, indicating that our retrievals are not reliably measuring the bulk composition of these UHJ atmospheres.

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