A Model to Map Brown Dwarf Companions to White Dwarfs in Partial Secondary Eclipse
Auteurs : Arthur D. Adams, Yifan Zhou, Daniel Apai, Daphne Broski-Laing, Sarah L. Casewell, Jenni R. French, L. C. Mayorga, Lael Shin, Xianyu Tan, Ben W. P. Lew, Joshua D. Lothringer, Vivien Parmentier
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Eclipse mapping is a well-established technique for constraining the spatial emission of hot Jupiter exoplanets. Brown dwarfs in ultra-short orbits around white dwarfs are an analog to hot Jupiters that can only ever be eclipsed within a limited range of latitudes. We adapt the eigenmapping method to disentangle the signals from the ever- and never-occulted regions. The result of this signal separation is a super-position of map structures, yielding sharp boundaries at the occultation region. We introduce a model that penalizes the harmonic complexity of the model map with Tikhonov regularization, whose parameters are tuned to reproduce the fit quality of the eigenmapping model. We use JWST NIRSpec/PRISM full-orbit observations of the eclipsing WD 1202-024 system as a template to construct and run injection-recovery tests on simulated light curves, isolating both latitudinal structures as well as emission from a physically-realistic general circulation model (GCM). In the latter, the narrow equatorial jet driven by the BD's rapid rotation manifests as an eclipse depth asymmetry, which our model reproduces as a latitude-dependent phase offset. Such a model, however, is only statistically preferred at approximately $3 \times$ the signal-to-noise ratio of the JWST data. When fitting to the actual JWST data of WD 1202, the full-phase eigenbasis model is statistically preferred. However, the resulting model map of WD 1202 B does not resemble the GCM predictions, with a concentrated day-side hotspot at the sub-stellar point with an angular size $\approx 15^\circ$. Interpreting this result more carefully requires follow-up work to disentangle systematics from true emission signals. This model framework provides a means to detect emission features from these rare types of eclipses, and ultimately to test predictions of models of atmospheric circulation across hot Jupiters and their BD analogs.
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