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Asymmetric Nightside CO2 Features, Inefficient Heat Transport, and Precise Evolutionary Constraints: Spectroscopic Phase Curves Reveal the Past and Present of a White Dwarf–Brown Dwarf Binary

  • Authors: Daphne Broski-Laing, Yifan Zhou, Joshua D. Lothringer, Daniel Apai, Jenni R. French, Sarah L. Casewell, L. C. Mayorga, Lael Shin, Ben W. P. Lew, Xianyu Tan, Vivien Parmentier, Siyi Xu, Mark S. Marley

Daphne Broski-Laing et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Absolute-flux-calibrated spectra of the combined WD–BD signal. As the brown dwarf eclipses the white dwarf, the flux decreases dramatically in the shorter wavelengths, where the white dwarf signal dominates. The outlier integrations are shown in dashed green lines.

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