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A Panchromatic JWST Spectrum of a Giant Starspot on the Fully Convective M Dwarf TOI-3884

  • Authors: C. A. Murray, L. Garcia, B. V. Rackham, Z. Berta-Thompson, A. D. Feinstein, S. J. Mercier, B. Charnay, L. Hebb, J. E. Libby-Roberts, Y. Rotman, A. Stephens, M. Timmermans, L. Welbanks, K. Barkaoui, Caleb I. Cañas, M. Delamer, E. Ducrot, S. Kanodia, S. Mahadevan, J. P. Ninan, J. de Wit

C. A. Murray et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Best-fit TOI-3884 spot radii (top left), instrument-dependent contrasts (upper right), and planet-to-star radius ratios (lower left) from each individual white light-curve fit. The best-fit spot radius, contrasts, and radius ratios from the self-consistent joint model are indicated with horizontal lines. Visits 1 and 3 are significantly impacted by stellar flares, therefore are heavily masked, inflating the uncertainties of the derived parameters for these visits. The best-fit spot temperature for Visits 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are shown on the bottom right plot. For comparison, we include literature values for the wavelength-independent spot radius and temperature (187 ± 21 K, J. M. Almenara et al. 2022; 194 ± 72 K, P. Tamburo et al. 2025; and 200 ± 11 K, M. Mori et al. 2025). We note that J. E. Libby-Roberts et al. 2023 report a large temperature range (ΔT ≈ 300–500 K) out of plot range, while H. Chakraborty et al. (2025) and S. Sagynbayeva et al. (2025) do not quote temperatures.

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