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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 664, Issue 2, Pages 1199-1209Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/519213
Keywords
eclipses; infrared : stars; occultations; planetary systems; stars : individual; (HD 189733, HD 209458, TrES-1); techniques : high angular resolution
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Recent Spitzer infrared measurements of hot-Jupiter eclipses suggest that eclipse-mapping techniques could be used to spatially resolve the dayside photospheric emission of these planets using partial occultations. As a first step in this direction, we simulate ingress/egress light curves for three bright eclipsing hot Jupiters and evaluate the degree to which parameterized photospheric emission models can be distinguished from each other with repeated, noisy eclipse measurements. We find that the photometric accuracy of Spitzer is insufficient to use this tool effectively. On the other hand, the level of photospheric details that could be probed with a few JWST eclipse measurements could greatly inform hot-Jupiter atmospheric modeling efforts. A JWST program focused on nonparametric eclipse map inversions for hot Jupiters should be actively considered.
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