Thermal emission from the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST

The TRAPPIST-1 system is remarkable for its seven planets that are similar in size, mass, density and stellar heating to the rocky planets Venus, Earth and Mars in the Solar System 1 . All the TRAPPIST-1 planets have been observed with transmission spectroscopy using the Hubble or Spitzer space tele...

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Vydané v:Nature (London) Ročník 618; číslo 7963; s. 39 - 42
Hlavní autori: Greene, Thomas P., Bell, Taylor J., Ducrot, Elsa, Dyrek, Achrène, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Fortney, Jonathan J.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2023
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Atmosphere
Atmospheric absorption
Carbon dioxide
Dwarf stars
Earth
Eclipses
Emission measurements
Extrasolar planets
Heat
Heating
Hubble Space Telescope
Humanities and Social Sciences
Infrared filters
Infrared instruments
James Webb Space Telescope
Mars
multidisciplinary
Planetary atmospheres
Planets
Radiation
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Solar system
Space telescopes
Spectroscopic telescopes
Spectroscopy
Spectrum analysis
Stars
Telescopes
Temperature
Terrestrial planets
Thermal emission
Venus
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Shrnutí:The TRAPPIST-1 system is remarkable for its seven planets that are similar in size, mass, density and stellar heating to the rocky planets Venus, Earth and Mars in the Solar System 1 . All the TRAPPIST-1 planets have been observed with transmission spectroscopy using the Hubble or Spitzer space telescopes, but no atmospheric features have been detected or strongly constrained 2 – 5 . TRAPPIST-1 b is the closest planet to the M-dwarf star of the system, and it receives four times as much radiation as Earth receives from the Sun. This relatively large amount of stellar heating suggests that its thermal emission may be measurable. Here we present photometric secondary eclipse observations of the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using the F1500W filter of the mid-infrared instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We detect the secondary eclipses in five separate observations with 8.7 σ confidence when all data are combined. These measurements are most consistent with re-radiation of the incident flux of the TRAPPIST-1 star from only the dayside hemisphere of the planet. The most straightforward interpretation is that there is little or no planetary atmosphere redistributing radiation from the host star and also no detectable atmospheric absorption of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or other species. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b has little or no planetary atmosphere and no detectable atmospheric absorption of carbon dioxide.
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DOI:10.1038/s41586-023-05951-7