A Panchromatic Characterization of the Evening and Morning Atmosphere of WASP-107 b: Composition and Cloud Variations, and Insight into the Effect of Stellar Contamination
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| author | Murphy, Matthew M. Beatty, Thomas G. Schlawin, Everett Bell, Taylor J. Radica, Michael Kennedy, Thomas D. Mehta, Nishil Welbanks, Luis Line, Michael R. Parmentier, Vivien Greene, Thomas P. Mukherjee, Sagnick Fortney, Jonathan J. Ohno, Kazumasa Wiser, Lindsey Arnold, Kenneth Rauscher, Emily Edelman, Isaac R. Rieke, Marcia J. |
| author_facet | Murphy, Matthew M. Beatty, Thomas G. Schlawin, Everett Bell, Taylor J. Radica, Michael Kennedy, Thomas D. Mehta, Nishil Welbanks, Luis Line, Michael R. Parmentier, Vivien Greene, Thomas P. Mukherjee, Sagnick Fortney, Jonathan J. Ohno, Kazumasa Wiser, Lindsey Arnold, Kenneth Rauscher, Emily Edelman, Isaac R. Rieke, Marcia J. |
| contents | Limb-resolved transmission spectroscopy has the potential to transform our understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres. By separately measuring the transmission spectra of the evening and morning limbs, these atmospheric regions can be individually characterized, shedding light into the global distribution and transport of key atmospheric properties from transit observations alone. In this work, we follow up the recent detection of limb asymmetry on the exoplanet WASP-107 b (Murphy et al. 2024) by reanalyzing literature observations of WASP-107 b using all of JWST's science intruments (NIRISS, NIRCam, NIRSpec, and MIRI) to measure its limb transmission spectra from $\sim$1-12 $μ$m. We confirm the evening--morning temperature difference inferred previously and find that it is qualitatively consistent with predictions from global circulation models. We find evidence for evening--morning variation in SO$_2$ and CO$_2$ abundance, and significant cloud coverage only on WASP-107 b's morning limb. We find that the NIRISS and NIRSpec observations are potentially contaminated by occulted starspots, which we leverage to investigate stellar contamination's impact on limb asymmetry measurements. We find that starspot crossings can significantly bias the inferred evening and morning transmission spectra depending on when they occur during the transit, and develop a simple correction model which successfully brings these instruments' spectra into agreement with the uncontaminated observations. |
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| spellingShingle | A Panchromatic Characterization of the Evening and Morning Atmosphere of WASP-107 b: Composition and Cloud Variations, and Insight into the Effect of Stellar Contamination Murphy, Matthew M. Beatty, Thomas G. Schlawin, Everett Bell, Taylor J. Radica, Michael Kennedy, Thomas D. Mehta, Nishil Welbanks, Luis Line, Michael R. Parmentier, Vivien Greene, Thomas P. Mukherjee, Sagnick Fortney, Jonathan J. Ohno, Kazumasa Wiser, Lindsey Arnold, Kenneth Rauscher, Emily Edelman, Isaac R. Rieke, Marcia J. Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Limb-resolved transmission spectroscopy has the potential to transform our understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres. By separately measuring the transmission spectra of the evening and morning limbs, these atmospheric regions can be individually characterized, shedding light into the global distribution and transport of key atmospheric properties from transit observations alone. In this work, we follow up the recent detection of limb asymmetry on the exoplanet WASP-107 b (Murphy et al. 2024) by reanalyzing literature observations of WASP-107 b using all of JWST's science intruments (NIRISS, NIRCam, NIRSpec, and MIRI) to measure its limb transmission spectra from $\sim$1-12 $μ$m. We confirm the evening--morning temperature difference inferred previously and find that it is qualitatively consistent with predictions from global circulation models. We find evidence for evening--morning variation in SO$_2$ and CO$_2$ abundance, and significant cloud coverage only on WASP-107 b's morning limb. We find that the NIRISS and NIRSpec observations are potentially contaminated by occulted starspots, which we leverage to investigate stellar contamination's impact on limb asymmetry measurements. We find that starspot crossings can significantly bias the inferred evening and morning transmission spectra depending on when they occur during the transit, and develop a simple correction model which successfully brings these instruments' spectra into agreement with the uncontaminated observations. |
| title | A Panchromatic Characterization of the Evening and Morning Atmosphere of WASP-107 b: Composition and Cloud Variations, and Insight into the Effect of Stellar Contamination |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13602 |