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A JWST transmission spectrum of a nearby Earth-sized exoplanet by Lustig-Yaeger, J.; Fu, G.; May, E. M.; Ceballos, K. N. Ortiz; Moran, S. E.; Peacock, S.; Stevenson, K. B.; López-Morales, M.; MacDonald, R. J.; Mayorga, L. C.; Sing, D. K.; Sotzen, K. S.; Valenti, J. A.; Adams, J.; Alam, M. K.; Batalha, N. E.; Bennett, K. A.; Gonzalez-Quiles, J.; Kirk, J.; Kruse, E.; Lothringer, J. D.; Rustamkulov, Z.; Wakeford, H. R. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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The critical first step in the search for life on exoplanets over the next decade is to determine whether rocky planets transiting small M-dwarf stars possess atmospheres and, if so, what processes sculpt them over time. Because of its broad wavelength coverage and improved resolution compared to previous methods, spectroscopy with JWST offers a new capability to detect and characterize the atmospheres of Earth-sized, M-dwarf planets. Here we use JWST to independently validate the discovery of LHS 475b, a warm (586 K), 0.99 Earth-radius exoplanet, interior to the habitable zone, and report a precise 2.9-5.3 um transmission spectrum. With two transit observations, we rule out primordial hydrogen-dominated and cloudless pure methane atmospheres. Thus far, the featureless transmission spectrum remains consistent with a planet that has a high-altitude cloud deck (similar to Venus), a tenuous atmosphere (similar to Mars), or no appreciable atmosphere at all (akin to Mercury). There are no signs of stellar contamination due to spots or faculae. Our observations demonstrate that JWST has the requisite sensitivity to constrain the secondary atmospheres of terrestrial exoplanets with absorp

Author
Lustig-Yaeger, J.; Fu, G.; May, E. M.; Ceballos, K. N. Ortiz; Moran, S. E.; Peacock, S.; Stevenson, K. B.; López-Morales, M.; MacDonald, R. J.; Mayorga, L. C.; Sing, D. K.; Sotzen, K. S.; Valenti, J. A.; Adams, J.; Alam, M. K.; Batalha, N. E.; Bennett, K. A.; Gonzalez-Quiles, J.; Kirk, J.; Kruse, E.; Lothringer, J. D.; Rustamkulov, Z.; Wakeford, H. R.
Published
2023
Language
EN

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