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Left panel: our adopted priors for the temperat...

Left panel: our adopted priors for the temperature gradient, ...

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Four schemes in our atmospheric inhomogeneity f...

Four schemes in our atmospheric inhomogeneity framework (Section 5.4).

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The archival JWST/NIRSpec spectrum (red) of 2MA...

The archival JWST/NIRSpec spectrum (red) of 2MASS 1207 b, with the x-axis shown in log s...

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Violin plot for the physical properties of 2MAS...

Violin plot for the physical properties of 2MASS 1207 b inferred from its bolometric lum...

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Sketch of the temperature model described in Se...

Sketch of the temperature model described in Section 5.1.

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Results of our most preferred retrieval setup, ...

Results of our most preferred retrieval setup, QEQ-1 (see Tables 3–4 and discussions in ...

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Top panel: the left panel shows T–P profiles fr...

Top panel: the left panel shows T–P profiles from the Sonroa Diamondback models with var...

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Top-left panel: retrieved T–P profiles from the...

Top-left panel: retrieved T–P profiles from the QEQ-1 setup, with 1σ/2σ/3σ confidence in...

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Retrieved T–P profiles from the QEQ-1 setup, wi...

Retrieved T–P profiles from the QEQ-1 setup, with 1σ, 2σ, and 3σ confidence intervals sh...

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The atmospheric metallicity (top), carbon-to-ox...

The atmospheric metallicity (top), carbon-to-oxygen ratio (middle), and ξthin (bottom) i...

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The top two panels present T–P profiles and cor...

The top two panels present T–P profiles and corresponding spectra from the Sonroa Diamon...

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The top three spectra show the observed JWST/NI...

The top three spectra show the observed JWST/NIRSpec data of 2MASS 1207 b (black), as we...

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The variability amplitude as a function of wave...

The variability amplitude as a function of wavelength predicted by our preferred retriev...

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Corner plot for the inferred parameters of 2MAS...

Corner plot for the inferred parameters of 2MASS 1207 b based on the most preferred retr...

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The left column presents violin plots for the e...

The left column presents violin plots for the effective temperature, surface gravity, an...

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Retrieval results for QEQ-20, which assumes a h...

Retrieval results for QEQ-20, which assumes a homogeneous atmosphere with enstatite and ...

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Retrieval results for QEQ-21, which assumes an ...

Retrieval results for QEQ-21, which assumes an inhomogeneous atmosphere with cloud-free ...

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The bolometric correction (specBCλλ; defined by...

The bolometric correction (specBCλλ; defined by Equation (A1)) for wavelength ranges of ...

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Retrieval results for QEQ-9, which resembles th...

Retrieval results for QEQ-9, which resembles the QEQ-13 setup (Figure 20) but adds a gra...

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Retrieval results for QEQ-15, which resembles t...

Retrieval results for QEQ-15, which resembles the QEQ-20 setup (Figure 18) but allows th...

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Retrieval results for QEQ-13, which assumes an ...

Retrieval results for QEQ-13, which assumes an inhomogeneous atmosphere with patchy fors...

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Retrieval results for QEQ-22, which assumes a h...

Retrieval results for QEQ-22, which assumes a homogeneous cloud-free atmosphere with bro...

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Detrended Palomar/WIRC light curves for the thr...

Detrended Palomar/WIRC light curves for the three transit observations of LP 791-18 c (u...

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Posterior distributions for the masses and ecce...

Posterior distributions for the masses and eccentricities of LP 791-18 d and c from a fi...

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TTVs from the ground-based follow-up campaign o...

TTVs from the ground-based follow-up campaign of P23 (black circles) including the high-...

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