  We analyse the transmission and emission spectra of the ultra-hot Jupiter
WASP-76b, observed with the G141 grism of the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide
Field Camera 3 (WFC3). We reduce and fit the raw data for each observation
using the open-source software Iraclis before performing a fully Bayesian
retrieval using the publicly available analysis suite TauRex 3. Previous
studies of the WFC3 transmission spectra of WASP-76 b found hints of titanium
oxide (TiO) and vanadium oxide (VO) or non-grey clouds. Accounting for a
fainter stellar companion to WASP-76, we reanalyse this data and show that
removing the effects of this background star changes the slope of the spectrum,
resulting in these visible absorbers no longer being detected, eliminating the
need for a non-grey cloud model to adequately fit the data but maintaining the
strong water feature previously seen. However, our analysis of the emission
spectrum suggests the presence of TiO and an atmospheric thermal inversion,
along with a significant amount of water. Given the brightness of the host star
and the size of the atmospheric features, WASP-76 b is an excellent target for
further characterisation with HST, or with future facilities, to better
understand the nature of its atmosphere, to confirm the presence of TiO and to
search for other optical absorbers.
