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[en] A primary goal of exoplanet characterization is to use a planet’s current composition to understand how that planet formed. For example, the C/O ratio has long been recognized as carrying important information on the chemistry of volatile species. Refractory elements, like Fe, Mg, and Si, are usually not considered in this conversation because they condense into solids like Fe(s) or MgSiO3 and would be removed from the observable, gaseous atmosphere in exoplanets cooler than about 2000 K. However, planets hotter than about 2000 K, called ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs), are warm enough to largely avoid the condensation of refractory species. In this paper, we explore the insight that the measurement of refractory abundances can provide into a planet’s origins. Through refractory-to-volatile elemental abundance ratios, we can estimate a planet’s atmospheric rock-to-ice fraction and constrain planet formation and migration scenarios. We first relate a planet’s present-day refractory-to-volatile ratio to its rock-to-ice ratio from formation using various compositional models for the rocky and icy components of the protoplanetary disk. We discuss potential confounding factors like the sequestration of heavy metals in the core and condensation. We then show such a measurement using atmospheric retrievals of the low-resolution UV-IR transmission spectrum of WASP-121b with PETRA, from which we estimate a refractory-to-volatile ratio of 5.0 solar and a rock-to-ice ratio greater than 2/3. This result is consistent with significant atmospheric enrichment by rocky planetismals. Lastly, we discuss the rich future potential for measuring refractory-to-volatile ratios in UHJs with the arrival of the James Webb Space Telescope and by combining observations at low and high resolution.
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Nugroho, Stevanus K.; De Mooij, Ernst J. W.; Watson, Chris A.; Merritt, Stephanie R.; Gibson, Neale P.; Herman, Miranda K.; Kawahara, Hajime, E-mail: s.nugroho@qub.ac.uk, E-mail: skristiantonugroho@gmail.com2020
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[en] We analyze the high-resolution emission spectrum of WASP-33b taken using the High Dispersion Spectrograph (R ≈ 165,000) on the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. The data cover λ ≈ 6170–8817 Å, divided over 30 spectral orders. The telluric and stellar lines are removed using a de-trending algorithm, SysRem, before cross-correlating with planetary spectral templates. We calculate the templates assuming a 1D plane-parallel hydrostatic atmosphere including continuum opacity of bound–free H− and Rayleigh scattering by H2 with a range of constant abundances of Fe i. Using a likelihood-mapping analysis, we detect an Fe i emission signature at 6.4σ located at of 226.0 km s−1 and v sys of −3.2 km s−1—consistent with the planet’s expected velocity in the literature. We also confirm the existence of a thermal inversion in the dayside of the planet, which is very likely to be caused by the presence of Fe i and previously detected TiO in the atmosphere. This makes WASP-33b one of the prime targets to study the relative contributions of both species to the energy budget of an ultra-hot Jupiter.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 898(2); [5 p.]
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Evans, Thomas M.; Sing, David K.; Nikolov, Nikolay; Drummond, Benjamin; Kataria, Tiffany; Spake, Jessica; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Ballester, Gilda E.; Gibson, Neale P.; Amundsen, David S., E-mail: tevans@astro.ex.ac.uk2016
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[en] We present a primary transit observation for the ultra-hot ( T _e_q ∼ 2400 K) gas giant expolanet WASP-121b, made using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 in spectroscopic mode across the 1.12–1.64 μ m wavelength range. The 1.4 μ m water absorption band is detected at high confidence (5.4 σ ) in the planetary atmosphere. We also reanalyze ground-based photometric light curves taken in the B , r ′, and z ′ filters. Significantly deeper transits are measured in these optical bandpasses relative to the near-infrared wavelengths. We conclude that scattering by high-altitude haze alone is unlikely to account for this difference and instead interpret it as evidence for titanium oxide and vanadium oxide absorption. Enhanced opacity is also inferred across the 1.12–1.3 μ m wavelength range, possibly due to iron hydride absorption. If confirmed, WASP-121b will be the first exoplanet with titanium oxide, vanadium oxide, and iron hydride detected in transmission. The latter are important species in M/L dwarfs and their presence is likely to have a significant effect on the overall physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, including the production of a strong thermal inversion.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 822(1); [7 p.]
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Nikolov, Nikolay; Sing, David K.; Evans, Thomas M.; Gibson, Neale P.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Barstow, Joanna K.; Kataria, Tiffany; Wilson, Paul A., E-mail: nikolay@astro.ex.ac.uk2016
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[en] We present transmission spectroscopy of the warm Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b made with the Very Large Telescope FOcal Reducer and Spectrograph (FORS2) across the wavelength range 411–810 nm. The transit depth is measured with a typical precision of 240 parts per million (ppm) in wavelength bins of 10 nm on a V = 12.1 mag star. We detect the sodium absorption feature (3.2 σ ) and find evidence of potassium. The ground-based transmission spectrum is consistent with Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) optical spectroscopy, supporting the interpretation that WASP-39b has a largely clear atmosphere. Our results demonstrate the great potential of the recently upgraded FORS2 spectrograph for optical transmission spectroscopy, with which we obtained HST -quality light curves from the ground.
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Bell, Taylor J.; Cowan, Nicolas B.; Schwartz, Joel C.; Nikolov, Nikolay; Evans, Thomas M.; Sing, David K.; Barstow, Joanna K.; Barman, Travis S.; Lothringer, Joshua D.; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Gibson, Neale P.; Knutson, Heather A.; Kataria, Tiffany; Benneke, Björn, E-mail: taylor.bell@mail.mcgill.ca2017
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[en] We present an optical eclipse observation of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. These spectra allow us to place an upper limit of (97.5% confidence level) on the planet’s white light geometric albedo across 290–570 nm. Using six wavelength bins across the same wavelength range also produces stringent limits on the geometric albedo for all bins. However, our uncertainties in eclipse depth are ∼40% greater than the Poisson limit and may be limited by the intrinsic variability of the Sun-like host star—the solar luminosity is known to vary at the 10−4 level on a timescale of minutes. We use our eclipse depth limits to test two previously suggested atmospheric models for this planet: Mie scattering from an aluminum-oxide haze or cloud-free Rayleigh scattering. Our stringent nondetection rules out both models and is consistent with thermal emission plus weak Rayleigh scattering from atomic hydrogen and helium. Our results are in stark contrast with those for the much cooler HD 189733b, the only other hot Jupiter with spectrally resolved reflected light observations; those data showed an increase in albedo with decreasing wavelength. The fact that the first two exoplanets with optical albedo spectra exhibit significant differences demonstrates the importance of spectrally resolved reflected light observations and highlights the great diversity among hot Jupiters.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 847(1); [6 p.]
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Nikolov, Nikolay; Maciejewski, Gracjan; Constantinou, Savvas; Madhusudhan, Nikku; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Carter, Aarynn L.; Smalley, Barry; De Mooij, Ernst J. W.; Wilson, Jamie; Drummond, Benjamin; Gibson, Neale P.; Helling, Christiane; Mayne, Nathan; Mikal-Evans, Thomas; Sing, David K., E-mail: nnikolov@stsci.edu2021
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[en] We present a ground-based optical transmission spectrum for the warm Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-110b from two transit observations made with the FOcal Reducer and Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope. The spectrum covers the wavelength range from 4000–8333 Å, which is binned in 46 transit depths measured to an averaged precision of 220 parts per million (ppm) over an averaged 80 Å bin for a Vmag = 12.8 star. The measured transit depths are unaffected by a dilution from a close A-type field dwarf, which was fully resolved. The overall main characteristic of the transmission spectrum is an increasing radius with wavelength and a lack of the theoretically predicted pressure-broadened sodium and potassium absorption features for a cloud-free atmosphere. We analyze archival high-resolution optical spectroscopy and find evidence for low to moderate activity of the host star, which we take into account in the atmospheric retrieval analysis. Using the AURA retrieval code, we find that the observed transmission spectrum can be best explained by a combination of unocculted stellar faculae and a cloud deck. Transmission spectra of cloud-free and hazy atmospheres are rejected at a high confidence. With a possible cloud deck at its terminator, WASP-110b joins the increasing population of irradiated hot-Jupiter exoplanets with cloudy atmospheres observed in transmission.
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Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online); ISSN 1538-3881; ; v. 162(3); [16 p.]
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ACCESS and LRG-BEASTS: A Precise New Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-103b
Kirk, James; López-Morales, Mercedes; McGruder, Chima D.; Rackham, Benjamin V.; MacDonald, Ryan J.; Lewis, Nikole K.; Espinoza, Néstor; Nikolov, Nikolay; Lendl, Monika; Wilson, Jamie; Osip, David J.; Wheatley, Peter J.; Louden, Tom; Skillen, Ian; Apai, Dániel; Bixel, Alex; Gibson, Neale P.; Jordán, Andrés2021
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[en] We present a new ground-based optical transmission spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-103b ( K). Our transmission spectrum is the result of combining five new transits from the ACCESS survey and two new transits from the LRG-BEASTS survey with a reanalysis of three archival Gemini/GMOS transits and one VLT/FORS2 transit. Our combined 11-transit transmission spectrum covers a wavelength range of 3900–9450 Å with a median uncertainty in the transit depth of 148 parts per million, which is less than one atmospheric scale height of the planet. In our retrieval analysis of WASP-103b’s combined optical and infrared transmission spectrum, we find strong evidence for unocculted bright regions (4.3σ) and weak evidence for H2O (), HCN (), and TiO (), which could be responsible for WASP-103b’s observed temperature inversion. Our optical transmission spectrum shows significant structure that is in excellent agreement with the extensively studied ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b, for which the presence of VO has been inferred. For WASP-103b, we find that VO can only provide a reasonable fit to the data if its abundance is implausibly high and we do not account for stellar activity. Our results highlight the precision that can be achieved by ground-based observations and the impacts that stellar activity from F-type stars can have on the interpretation of exoplanet transmission spectra.
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Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online); ISSN 1538-3881; ; v. 162(1); [26 p.]
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Nugroho, Stevanus K.; Hirano, Teruyuki; Kotani, Takayuki; Tamura, Motohide; Kuzuhara, Masayuki; Kawahara, Hajime; Gibson, Neale P.; De Mooij, Ernst J. W.; Watson, Chris A.; Kawashima, Yui; Masuda, Kento; Brogi, Matteo; Birkby, Jayne L.; Zwintz, Konstanze; Harakawa, Hiroki; Kudo, Tomoyuki; Hodapp, Klaus; Jacobson, Shane; Ishizuka, Masato; Konishi, Mihoko2021
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[en] We report the first detection of a hydroxyl radical (OH) emission signature in the planetary atmosphere outside the solar system, in this case, in the dayside of WASP-33b. We analyze high-resolution near-infrared emission spectra of WASP-33b taken using the InfraRed Doppler spectrograph on the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. The telluric and stellar lines are removed using a detrending algorithm, SysRem. The residuals are then cross-correlated with OH and H2O planetary spectrum templates produced using several different line lists. We check and confirm the accuracy of OH line lists by cross-correlating with the spectrum of GJ 436. As a result, we detect the emission signature of OH at K p of km s−1 and v sys of −0.3 km s−1 with a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 5.4 and a significance of 5.5σ. Additionally, we marginally detect H2O emission in the H-band with an S/N of 4.0 and a significance of 5.2σ using the POKAZATEL line list. However, no significant signal is detected using the HITEMP 2010, which might be due to differences in line positions and strengths, as well as the incompleteness of the line lists. Nonetheless, this marginal detection is consistent with the prediction that H2O is mostly thermally dissociated in the upper atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiters. Therefore, along with CO, OH is expected to be one of the most abundant O-bearing molecules in the dayside atmosphere of ultra-hot Jupiters and should be considered when studying their atmospheres.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 910(1); [9 p.]
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