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Mapping the pressure-dependent day-night temperature contrast of a strongly irradiated atmosphere with HST spectroscopic phase curve

Abstract:

Many brown dwarfs are on ultrashort-period and tidally locked orbits around white dwarf hosts. Because of these small orbital separations, the brown dwarfs are irradiated at levels similar to hot Jupiters. Yet, they are easier to observe than hot Jupiters because white dwarfs are fainter than main-sequence stars at near-infrared wavelengths. Irradiated brown dwarfs are, therefore, ideal hot Jupiter analogs for studying the atmospheric response under strong irradiation and fast rotation. We pr...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.3847/1538-3881/ac3001

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Publisher:
IOP Publishing Publisher's website
Journal:
Astronomical Journal Journal website
Volume:
163
Issue:
1
Article number:
8
Publication date:
2021-12-13
Acceptance date:
2021-10-13
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EISSN:
1538-3881
ISSN:
0004-6256
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1226035
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pubs:1226035
Deposit date:
2022-02-04

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