The First Hubble Detection of a Secondary Eclipse from a Rocky Exoplanet: the 5.4-hour planet TOI-2431 b

arXiv:2609.31966 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bulk Silicate Earth — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• General Observer — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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