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Knutson and colleagues used the Spitzer Space Telescope to measure an 8-micrometre phase curve of the transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733b over slightly more than half an orbit. They inferred a modest day–night brightness contrast and an eastward offset of the brightest hemisphere, consistent with atmospheric transport of heat. A regularized longitudinal-slice fit gave a coarse brightness map rather than a spatially resolved picture.
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Scientific scope
The measured signal is combined star-plus-planet flux and depends on correction of an illumination-dependent detector ramp and potential stellar-spot variability. The reported 973 ± 33 K and 1212 ± 11 K are minimum and maximum hemisphere-averaged brightness temperatures at one wavelength, not full three-dimensional atmospheric temperatures. The phase-curve maximum is about 16° before opposition; the separately fitted brightest longitude slice is around 30° east of the substellar point. Latitude structure is assumed, not measured, and the map has coarse 30° longitudinal bins. Winds, heat redistribution and orbital eccentricity are interpretations subject to model and timing assumptions.
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Heather A. Knutson; David Charbonneau; Lori E. Allen; Jonathan J. Fortney; Eric Agol; Nicolas B. Cowan; Adam P. Showman; Curtis S. Cooper; S. Thomas Megeath
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Infrared day–night brightness mapping of HD 189733b
Knutson and colleagues used the Spitzer Space Telescope to measure an 8-micrometre phase curve of the transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733b over slightly more than half an orbit. They inferred a modest day–night brightness contrast and an eastward offset of the brightest hemisphere, consistent with atmospheric transport of heat. A regularized longitudinal-slice fit gave a coarse brightness map rather than a spatially resolved picture.
Scientific scope
The measured signal is combined star-plus-planet flux and depends on correction of an illumination-dependent detector ramp and potential stellar-spot variability. The reported 973 ± 33 K and 1212 ± 11 K are minimum and maximum hemisphere-averaged brightness temperatures at one wavelength, not full three-dimensional atmospheric temperatures. The phase-curve maximum is about 16° before opposition; the separately fitted brightest longitude slice is around 30° east of the substellar point. Latitude structure is assumed, not measured, and the map has coarse 30° longitudinal bins. Winds, heat redistribution and orbital eccentricity are interpretations subject to model and timing assumptions.
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People and systems
Heather A. Knutson; David Charbonneau; Lori E. Allen; Jonathan J. Fortney; Eric Agol; Nicolas B. Cowan; Adam P. Showman; Curtis S. Cooper; S. Thomas Megeath
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.