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by semaphoreP 3025 days ago
It's hard to measure absolute water abundances (it requires a lot of assumptions and extrapolating). This is a relative comparison of atmospheric water. We don't have relative water abundances for a lot of planets, so it's on the higher end, but we don't really know (maybe some other planets' water are hidden behind clouds).
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That makes me think it’s a pretty substantive amount of water. If we’re getting 3x the spike we see for a planet in our own solar system in a planet lys away then actual content should be much more (due to signal/noise? Just guessing though)
It's not the absolute value of the signal. What they're measuring the amount of water compared to hydrogen.