Atmospheric Metallicity and C/O of HD 189733 b from High-resolution Spectroscopy

Autor: Luke Finnerty, Jerry W. Xuan, Yinzi Xin, Joshua Liberman, Tobias Schofield, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Shubh Agrawal, Ashley Baker, Randall Bartos, Geoffrey A. Blake, Benjamin Calvin, Sylvain Cetre, Jacques-Robert Delorme, Greg Doppmann, Daniel Echeverri, Chih-Chun Hsu, Nemanja Jovanovic, Ronald A. López, Emily C. Martin, Dimitri Mawet, Evan Morris, Jacklyn Pezzato, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Ben Sappey, Andrew Skemer, Taylor Venenciano, J. Kent Wallace, Nicole L. Wallack, Jason J. Wang, Ji Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: The Astronomical Journal, Vol 167, Iss 1, p 43 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1538-3881
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad1180
Popis: We present high-resolution K -band emission spectra of the quintessential hot Jupiter HD 189733 b from the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer. Using a Bayesian retrieval framework, we fit the dayside pressure–temperature profile, orbital kinematics, mass-mixing ratios of H _2 O, CO, CH _4 , NH _3 , HCN, and H _2 S, and the ^13 CO/ ^12 CO ratio. We measure mass fractions of ${\mathrm{logH}}_{2}{\rm{O}}=-{2.0}_{-0.4}^{+0.4}$ and $\mathrm{logCO}=-{2.2}_{-0.5}^{+0.5}$ , and place upper limits on the remaining species. Notably, we find logCH _4 < −4.5 at 99% confidence, despite its anticipated presence at the equilibrium temperature of HD 189733 b assuming local thermal equilibrium. We make a tentative (∼3 σ ) detection of ^13 CO, and the retrieved posteriors suggest a ^12 C/ ^13 C ratio similar to or substantially less than the local interstellar value. The possible ^13 C enrichment would be consistent with accretion of fractionated material in ices or in the protoplanetary disk midplane. The retrieved abundances correspond to a substantially substellar atmospheric C/O = 0.3 ± 0.1, while the carbon and oxygen abundances are stellar to slightly superstellar, consistent with core-accretion models which predict an inverse correlation between C/O and metallicity. The specific combination of low C/O and high metallicity suggests significant accretion of solid material may have occurred late in the formation process of HD 189733 b.
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