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Systematic Uncertainties in Rocky Exoplanet Reflected Light from Incomplete Laboratory BRDF Measurements

  • Authors: Leonardos Gkouvelis, Michael K. Shepard, Paul Helfenstein, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Renyu Hu

Leonardos Gkouvelis et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Disk-integrated reflected-light phase curves at 0.55 μm for a TRAPPIST-1b-like configuration using an Apollo regolith analog (sample 10084) from the BUG dataset (M. K. Shepard & P. Helfenstein 2007). The light-blue region shows the uncertainty envelope obtained from single-geometry laboratory conditioning. The green region corresponds to the case where additional grain-scale optical priors constrain ω and b. The red region shows the predictions obtained using the full multiangular BUG dataset. Shaded regions represent the propagated posterior uncertainty in the Hapke parameters (ω, b, B0, h). The vertical gray band marks the approximate phase-angle range corresponding to secondary-eclipse ingress. Although grain-scale optical constraints partially reduce the uncertainty envelope, substantial uncertainty remains until direct multiangular constraints are introduced.

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