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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 7.

Fourier amplitudes and phases of the spectroscopic phase curves as a function of wavelength. Each phase curve is fit with a second-order Fourier series; bins consistent with a flat model are indicated with black squares. In each panel, we include the phase-curve information for 50 evenly spaced wavelength bins, as well as a few additional wavelength bins corresponding to H2O, CH4, CO2, and CO absorption features. The wavelength ranges used to make these phase curves are highlighted. The markers for these molecular absorption phase curves are bolded. All data points include black error bars corresponding to the 1σ uncertainties, and fainter gray error bars that correspond to the 3σ uncertainties. Top: phase-curve amplitudes normalized by the brown dwarf flux. The k = 1 (first-order) and k = 2 (second-order) components are shown with circular and triangular markers, respectively. Middle: the same as the top panel, except the amplitudes are normalized by the combined flux of the white dwarf and brown dwarf. Bottom: the phases corresponding to the maximum and minimum points in the phase-curve model are shown with circular and triangular markers, respectively.

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