K-dwarf starspot hunters: how to directly characterize spot and faculae properties with UV-IR panchromatic transit spectra

arXiv:2609.35676 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Abundance — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transmission spectroscopy — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Spectral Signature — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Regions — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hubble Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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