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Quantifying thermal water dissociation in the dayside photosphere of WASP-121 b using NIRPS
Luc Bazinet, Romain Allart, Bj\"orn Benneke, Stefan Pelletier, Joost P. Wardenier, Neil J. Cook, Thierry Forveille, Louise D. Nielsen, Khaled Al Moulla, \'Etienne Artigau, Fr\'ed\'erique Baron, Susana C. C. Barros, Xavier Bonfils, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Marta Bryan, Bruno L. Canto Martins, Ryan Cloutier, Nicolas B. Cowan, Daniel Brito de Freitas, Jose Renan De Medeiros, Xavier Del…

Quantifying thermal water dissociation in the dayside photosphere of WASP-121 b using NIRPS
The intense stellar irradiation of ultra-hot Jupiters results in some of the most extreme atmospheric environments in the planetary regime. On their daysides, temperatures can be sufficiently high for key atmospheric constituents to thermally dissociate into simpler molecular species and atoms. This dissociation drastically changes the atmospheric opacities and, in turn, critically alters the temperature structure, atmospheric dynamics, and day-night heat transport. To this date, however, simul…