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JWST MIRI Reveals a Potential Atmosphere on the Ultrahot Rocky Planet TOI-431b

  • Authors: Cole Smith, Brandon Park Coy, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Rafael Luque, Anjali A. A. Piette, Qiao Xue, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean, Madison Brady, Peter Gao, Jegug Ih, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Edwin Kite, Daniel Koll, Jaume Orell-Miquel, Enric Palle

Cole Smith et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Simulated GenTSO (P. E. Cubillos 2024) observations for TOI-431b compared to the H2O (purple) and O2-rich (yellow) GENESIS(A. A. A. Piette et al. 2023) modeled atmospheres with 1% rock-vapor fractions. The simulated points plotted are for the O2-rich atmosphere. A blackbody eclipse spectrum for the measured brightness temperature is overlaid in a dashed black line. The modeled observations are scaled and use 1 secondary eclipse observation following the procedures described in 4.2. Simulations modeled for NIRSpec G395H and MIRI/LRS are plotted in black circles and squares, respectively.

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