A data-driven approach to constraining the atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b

M.E.Y. acknowledges funding from the OAWInnovationsfonds IF_2017_03. D.S. and M.R. acknowledge the support of the DFG priority program SPP-1992 "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (DFG PR 36 24 602/41). A.G.S. and L.F. acknowledge financial support from the Austrian Forschungsforderungsgesellschaft FFG project CONTROL P865968. L.M.L. acknowledges the financial support from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCI through the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award SEV-2017-0709, and from the research project PGC2018-099425-B-I00. A.W. acknowledges the financial support of the SNSF by grant number P400P2_186765. The authors thank the anonymous referee for the insightful comments.