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Bridging the Gap: Using Brown Dwarfs to Examine Silicate Clouds in Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres

  • Authors: Emily Calamari, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Channon Visscher, Marina E. Gemma, Austin Rothermich, Francisco Ardévol Martínez, Sherelyn Alejandro Merchan, Genaro Suárez

Emily Calamari et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Mg/Si ratios of JWST-observed hot Jupiter host stars vs. separation (semimajor axis). Mg/Si ratios compiled from J. M. Brewer et al. (2016) with an error of 3.3% as quoted in J. M. Brewer & D. A. Fischer (2016) as well as N. Hejazi et al. (2023). Diamond markers indicate systems in which the hot Jupiter companion is reported to have spectral signatures of SiO2(s) clouds. Square markers indicate no current robust detection for a particular silicate species. The purple dashed line indicates the Mg/Si ratio point that distinguishes the onset of either forsterite (>0.9) or quartz (<0.9) condensates (E. Calamari et al. 2024). The navy dashed line indicates the theoretical gas-phase Mg/Si ratio in a solar-type disk from A. Thiabaud et al. (2015).

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