A Comprehensive Analysis of the Panchromatic Transmission Spectrum of the Hot-Saturn WASP-96 b: Nondetection of Haze, Possible Sodium Limb Asymmetry, Stellar Characterization, and Formation History

arXiv:2511.16771 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-08-20 · Read on arXiv

Le-Chris Wang, Zafar Rustamkulov, David K. Sing, Joshua Lothringer, Patrick McCreery, Daniel Thorngren, Munazza K. Alam

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Submitted: 2026-08-20

Updated: 2026-08-21

Code: https://github.com/madeleine-mckenzie/REvIEW

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Core — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Metallicity — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 17× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
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Hubble Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
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Bayesian Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
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Very Large Telescope — 1× in this paper
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