Extended Data Fig. 6: Sensitivity to retrieval assumptions. | Nature

Extended Data Fig. 6: Sensitivity to retrieval assumptions.

From: A secondary atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e

Extended Data Fig. 6

a, The Bayes evidence when fitting to the NIRCam data only. We allowed the mean eclipse depth to vary freely and applied a physically motivated lower bound on the temperature (1,700 K, corresponding to the equilibrium temperature with full heat redistribution and a high Bond albedo of 0.5). b, The Bayes evidence when fitting to the MIRI data only. c, The Bayes evidence when fitting to the full dataset (NIRCam + MIRI) with an independent parameterization of the temperature profile, in which the surface temperature and the atmospheric temperature (assumed to be isothermal) determine the emission spectra46. d, The Bayes evidence when fitting to the full dataset excluding the two red-most binned MIRI data points (corresponding to the shadow region). e, The best-fit models when fitting to the full dataset excluding the two red-most binned MIRI data points. Coloured points show the model results binned to the same wavelength channels as the MIRI data.

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