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Visualization of field star contaminants in the WASP-96 b SOSS frame. Top: Median stack of the CLEAR exposure. The centroids of the target traces for the first, second, and third orders are indicated via the red, blue, and green solid lines respectively. The 25-pixel extraction boxes are bounded by the dashed lines in each colour (Note that order 3 is not extracted, but included in this plot for completeness). The contaminating order 1 from a field star is indicated in pink and can be clearly seen to intersect the extract box of the target order 1 between pixels ∼1250–1600. Bottom: Median stack of the F277W exposure. The centroids and extraction boxes for orders 1 and 2 are again indicated identically to the above. Multiple field star order 0s are visible in this frame. One, centered at spectral pixel ∼790, clearly intersects the order 1 extraction box (see inset). -- astro-ph.EP

Astronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report

Awesome SOSS: Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS

by Keith CowingMay 29, 2023May 29, 2023

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