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Kepler-51d’s transmission spectrum observed wit...

Kepler-51d’s transmission spectrum observed with JWST/NIRSpec-PRISM covering 0.6–5.3 μm....

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The best-fit quadratic limb-darkening parameter...

The best-fit quadratic limb-darkening parameters (not following the reparameterization d...

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Median ring spectrum (top-left panel) and the m...

Median ring spectrum (top-left panel) and the model deviation from each data point (bott...

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Spectrum models for the three best-fit cases. T...

Spectrum models for the three best-fit cases. The right vertical axis indicates the corr...

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Goodness of fit for the parameter space (atmosp...

Goodness of fit for the parameter space (atmospheric metallicity, haze monomer productio...

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The best-fit models for the transmission spectr...

The best-fit models for the transmission spectrum of Kepler-51 d. The fiducial retrieval...

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The volume-averaged particle size and total mas...

The volume-averaged particle size and total mass density from the forward models compare...

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Slant optical depth τ (color) as a function of ...

Slant optical depth τ (color) as a function of wavelength and both the pressure (left) a...

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The best-fit model from ExoTR plotted against t...

The best-fit model from ExoTR plotted against the spectrum of Kepler-51d. This model is ...

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Top panel: the best-fit spotrod and starry spot...

Top panel: the best-fit spotrod and starry spot configurations represented on Kepler-51....

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Best-fit spot contrasts from the individual cha...

Best-fit spot contrasts from the individual channels (black) fit with spotrod, and binne...

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Top panel: plot of the out of transit stellar f...

Top panel: plot of the out of transit stellar flux density along with the best-fit model...

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Kepler-51d’s transmission spectrum (gray) and b...

Kepler-51d’s transmission spectrum (gray) and binned spectrum (green) plotted against di...

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Top panel: the solid black and orange lines sho...

Top panel: the solid black and orange lines show the NIRSpec/G395M spectrum and the best...

Ben W.P. Lew et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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The combination of JWST NIRCam photometry, HST ...

The combination of JWST NIRCam photometry, HST photometry, JWST NIRSpec G395M spectrum, ...

Ben W.P. Lew et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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The RGB-stacked colored image with the three NI...

The RGB-stacked colored image with the three NIRCam filters: F150W2 (blue), F356W (green...

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Left panel: the best-fit PICASO retrieval tempe...

Left panel: the best-fit PICASO retrieval temperature–pressure (T-P) profile is plotted ...

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Top row: output from the chemical equilibrium m...

Top row: output from the chemical equilibrium models described in Section 3.5.1. Only 50...

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Bottom-left panel: the derived ...

Bottom-left panel: the derived ﹩\mathrm{log}({K}_{zz})﹩ of CO, CH4, and NH3 as a functio...

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The temperature gradient (dlnT/dlnP) of the bes...

The temperature gradient (dlnT/dlnP) of the best-fit retrieval solution, which is plotte...

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Our retrieved and the inferred elemental abunda...

Our retrieved and the inferred elemental abundance ratios normalized to the solar value ...

Ben W.P. Lew et al, The Astronomical Journal 171 4

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Left panel: a comparison of the absolute C/O ra...

Left panel: a comparison of the absolute C/O ratio of WD 0806 b (red star) to the nearby...

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Top panel: the best-fit Elf-Owl (orange line) a...

Top panel: the best-fit Elf-Owl (orange line) and ATMOS++ (blue line) model spectra comp...

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The MIRI/LRS spectrum (black line), which is no...

The MIRI/LRS spectrum (black line), which is not included in the atmospheric retrieval m...

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The corner plot of the 23 parameters in the PIC...

The corner plot of the 23 parameters in the PICASO retrieval with age constraints. The m...

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