Evidence for a Dayside Thermal Inversion and High Metallicity for the Hot Jupiter WASP-18b

Kyle Sheppard, Avi M. Mandell, Patrick Tamburo +4

We find evidence for a strong thermal inversion in the dayside atmosphere of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-18b (T${}_{eq}=2411K$, $M=10.3M_J$) based on emission spectrosco…