Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon and Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b
LTT 9779 b is an ultra-hot Neptune (R p ≍ 4.7 R ⊕, M p ≍ 29 M ⊕) orbiting its Sun-like host star in just 19 hr, placing it deep within the "hot-Neptune desert," where Neptunian planets are seldom found. We present new James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec G395H phase curve observations that probe its atmospheric composition in unprecedented detail. At
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