Publications by authors named "L Alderson"
Introduction: Boys with haemophilia (BwH) have improved health outcomes. Measures of physical function in haemophilia are not challenging or sensitive enough to reflect physical limitations or guide rehabilitation. To identify meaningful tests, we aimed to: evaluate the performance of BwH on two physical performance measures: iSTEP and 10 m-ISWT; identify factors which predict performance and compare BwH to their unaffected peers.
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- Photochemistry plays a critical role in regulating the composition and stability of planetary atmospheres, but clear photochemical products have not been detected in exoplanets until recently.* -
- The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected sulfur dioxide (SO) in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-39b, suggesting photochemical processes create SO in this gas giant's atmosphere.* -
- The presence of SO, linked to the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide, indicates WASP-39b has high metallicity (about 10 times that of the sun), and its spectral features could help understand more about similar exoplanets.*
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- Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres helps to understand their chemical processes and formation history.
- The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allows for advanced observations of exoplanets, notably WASP-39b, providing insights through time-series data with high precision in a new wavelength range.
- Findings include the detection of water vapor in the atmosphere with a high metallicity (1-100 times that of the Sun) and a low C/O ratio, suggesting the potential for significant solid material accretion during formation or chemical disequilibrium in the atmosphere.
The Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b has been the subject of extensive efforts to determine its atmospheric properties using transmission spectroscopy. However, these efforts have been hampered by modelling degeneracies between composition and cloud properties that are caused by limited data quality. Here we present the transmission spectrum of WASP-39b obtained using the Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy (SOSS) mode of the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument on the JWST.
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