Detecting atmospheres in the presence of stellar contamination: an empirically calibrated framework applied to four JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transits of TRAPPIST-1c

arXiv:2609.37722 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Calibration — 19× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gaussian Processes (GPs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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