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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 6.

This figure details how the gaseous Mg/Si ratio changes as a function of the pressure and temperature under thermochemical equilibrium in substellar mass atmospheres. Three PT curves are shown for Teff = 2200, 1500, 900 K from C. V. Morley et al. (2024), uniformly chosen at solar metallicity and C/O and fsed = 4, log(g) = 4.0. Green PT points indicate a gaseous bulk Mg/Si = 1.05, whereas pink PT points indicate regions where refractory material has condensed out, driving gaseous Mg/Si to zero.

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