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Ammonia-to-methane ratios derived for late-T dwarfs and Y dwarfs with a 95% confidence level from NIRSPEC data (blue) and HST data (red) compared with those of Jupiter and Saturn from IRTF data (red) as functions of spectral type (upper panel) and Teff (lower panel). The Teff of T dwarfs, Y dwarfs, Jupiter, and Saturn adopted in this work are listed in Table 1. The dashed pink curves are the third-degree polynomial fittings for all objects (except Saturn) against spectral type and Teff, and the dashed black line is a linear fitting just for objects from T8 to Y2. In the lower panel, the results are compared with the scaled theoretical ratios of molecular column densities estimated from Zahnle & Marley (2014), which are shown in light blue.

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