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JWST Excludes Exomoons Down to 0.1 Earth Radii Around a Rocky, Temperate Exoplanet

  • Authors: David Kipping

David Kipping 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

The top panel shows the residuals of the measured 12 transit times of LP-890-9 c against a linear ephemeris i.e., the TTVs. Each epoch has four colored points, corresponding to the 2 × 2 reduction-likelihood pairs used in this work, plus a black averaged point. In practice, these are hardly distinguishable. The TTVs show overwhelming evidence for a periodic signal, with the Lomb–Scargle periodogram (bottom panel) finding maxima of Δχ2 > 300 in all cases. The best-fitting sinusoid parameters are provided inset, although the signal appears more complex than a sinusoid.

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