The potassium absorption on HD189733b and HD209458b

Autor:	Keles, Engin, Mallonn, Matthias, von Essen, Carolina, Carroll, Thorsten A., Alexoudi, Xanthippi, Pino, Lorenzo, Ilyin, Ilya, Poppenhaeger, Katja, Kitzmann, Daniel, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Turner, Jake, Strassmeier, Klaus G.
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1093/mnrasl/slz123
Popis:	In this work, we investigate the potassium excess absorption around 7699A of the exoplanets HD189733b and HD209458b. For this purpose, we used high spectral resolution transit observations acquired with the 2 x 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (PEPSI). For a bandwidth of 0.8A, we present a detection > 7-sigma with an absorption level of 0.18% for HD189733b. Applying the same analysis to HD209458b, we can set 3-sigma upper limit of 0.09%, even though we do not detect a K- excess absorption. The investigation suggests that the K- feature is less present in the atmosphere of HD209458b than in the one of HD189733b. This comparison confirms previous claims that the atmospheres of these two planets must have fundamentally different properties. Comment: Accepted in M.N.R.A.S, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz123
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04884 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv