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How Many Transiting Giant Planets Can JWST Search for Moons and Rotational Oblateness?

  • Authors: Le-Chris Wang, 乐 王, Joshua N. Winn, 乔书 温

Le-Chris Wang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Sensitivity of the predicted yields to an added red-noise floor on the relevant signal timescale. The horizontal axis specifies σred, the additional noise added in quadrature to the ETC white-noise prediction after averaging to the relevant timescale (half the transit duration for moon detection, and half the ingress/egress duration for oblateness detection). Solid curves show the number of systems with detectable Jupiter-like oblateness for the three assumed obliquity distributions. The dashed orange curve shows the number of systems for which a Ganymede-sized moon would be detectable. Shaded regions show the 16th–84th percentile range over Monte Carlo realizations. In all cases, the host star sample was the combined 0.1–1.6 M sample.

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