The capability of CSST in characterizing planetary atmospheres. I. transmission spectroscopy of hot Jupiters

arXiv:2606.16452 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-06-15 · Read on arXiv

Zibo Liu, Wei Wang, Meng Zhai, Jinpeng Wang, Qinglin Ouyang, Fei Yan, Guo Chen, Dongdong Ni, Yong Zhao, Yujuan Liu, Fei Zhao, Gang Zhao

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-06-15

Comments: 40 pages, 24 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 31× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transmission spectroscopy — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Spectral Signature — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chinese Space Station Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Hubble Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-band Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy Survey Camera — 2× in this paper
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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