A Highly Reflective Atmosphere on the Lava World TOI-561b Revealed by JWST/NIRSpec Phase Curve

arXiv:2608.21519 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-08-21 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-21

Updated: 2026-08-28

Terminology

• Metallicity — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Temperature Gradient — 3× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Root Mean Square Error — 1× in this paper
• Spectral Signature — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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• Thin H$_2$-dominated Atmospheres as Signposts of Magmatic Outgassing on Tidally-Heated Terrestrial Exoplanets
• Highlights from Exoplanet Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope
• Amplitudes of Stellar Oscillations: The Implications for Asteroseismology
• Three-Dimensional Ocean Dynamics and Detectability of Tidally Locked Lava Worlds
• Volatile-rich evolution of molten super-Earth L 98-59 d

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