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Improved Constraints on the Surface of LHS 3844 b from Its Mid-infrared Spectrum

  • Authors: Kimberly Paragas, Heather A. Knutson, Renyu Hu, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Aishwarya R. Iyer, Sebastian Zieba, Laura Kreidberg

Kimberly Paragas et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Top: planet-to-star flux ratio emission spectrum from the three eclipses published in S. Zieba et al. (2026), compared to the combined spectrum from all 11 eclipses in this work (including the three previously published). Middle and bottom: the same spectrum converted to brightness temperature to highlight the feature near 10–12 μm. The top two panels show the best-fit blackbody, fayalite, and SiC–basalt mixture models (each with temperature as a free parameter), and the three-parameter Fayalite model with temperature (“temp.”), amplitude (“amp.”), and CF location (“CF loc.”) as free parameters. The bottom panel shows the best-fit forsterite, fayalite, and spinel models of small, loosely packed grains with their corresponding transparency features denoted by the solid lines.

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