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Well, if it's tidally locked (which it probably is and the paper doesn't disabuse me), then both its rotation and orbit are about 8 hours on the sameish axis. S

Well, if it's tidally locked (which it probably is and the paper doesn't disabuse me), then both its rotation and orbit are about 8 hours on the sameish axis. So it's still spinning pretty dang fast, enough that the gas doesn't have to settle into hot and cold sides. I can't fully parse the part of the paper where they talk about the wind structure, but they do seem to think it still has some banding. Section 5: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae157c https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae157c (linked elsewhere, here again for convenience).

MarkusQ 10mo ago
> both its rotation and orbit are about 8 hours on the sameish axis. So > it's still spinning pretty dang fast, enough that the gas doesn't have > to settle into hot and cold sides. Except that by spinning on the same axis [more correctly, on axes normal to the same plane] at the same rate the atmosphere is stationary in the co-rotating frame. That's what it means to be tidally locked. The gas is already divided into a hot side (always facing the star) and a cold side (always facing away).