Evidence of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b: The Only Known Transiting Gas Giant in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone

Munazza K. Alam; Mercedes López-Morales; Ryan J. MacDonald; Nikolay Nikolov; James Kirk; Jayesh M. Goyal; David K. Sing; Hannah R. Wakeford; Alexander D. Rathcke; Drake L. Deming; Jorge Sanz-Forcada; Nikole K. Lewis; Joanna K. Barstow; Thomas Mikal-Evans; Lars A. Buchhave

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abd18e

Evidence of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b: The Only Known Transiting Gas Giant in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone

Munazza K. Alam, Mercedes López-Morales, Ryan J. MacDonald, Nikolay Nikolov, James Kirk, Jayesh M. Goyal, David K. Sing, Hannah R. Wakeford, Alexander D. Rathcke, Drake L. Deming, Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Nikole K. Lewis, Joanna K. Barstow, Thomas Mikal-Evans, Lars A. Buchhave

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Original language	English
Article number	abd18e
Journal	The Astrophysical Journal
Volume	906
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abd18e
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2021

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The authors thank the referee for insightful comments and suggestions. M.K.A. thanks Mark Marley for useful discussions. R.J.M. thanks Sergei Yurchenko for helpful discussions on molecular line lists. This paper makes use of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These observations are associated with the Hubble GO program 14767. M.K.A. acknowledges support by the National Science Foundation through a Graduate Research Fellowship. J.S.F. acknowledges support from the Spanish State Research Agency project AYA2016-79425-C3-2-P. Per AAS Journals policy, all supplementary figures are included in this public figshare repository.

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Alam, M. K., López-Morales, M., MacDonald, R. J., Nikolov, N., Kirk, J., Goyal, J. M., Sing, D. K., Wakeford, H. R., Rathcke, A. D., Deming, D. L., Sanz-Forcada, J., Lewis, N. K., Barstow, J. K., Mikal-Evans, T., & Buchhave, L. A. (2021). Evidence of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b: The Only Known Transiting Gas Giant in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone. The Astrophysical Journal, 906(2), [abd18e]. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abd18e

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