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The Hubble Space Telescope Pancet Program: An Optical To Infrared Transmission Spectrum Of Hat-P-32ab, Munazza K. Alam, Mercedes López-Morales, Nikolay Nikolov, David K. Sing, Gregory W. Henry, Claire Baxter, Jean-Michel Désert, Joanna K. Barstow, Thomas Mikal-Evans, Vincent Bourrier, Panayotis Lavvas, Hannah R. Wakeford, Michael H. Williamson, Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Lars A. Buchhave, Ofer Cohen, Antonio García Muñoz
The Hubble Space Telescope Pancet Program: An Optical To Infrared Transmission Spectrum Of Hat-P-32ab, Munazza K. Alam, Mercedes López-Morales, Nikolay Nikolov, David K. Sing, Gregory W. Henry, Claire Baxter, Jean-Michel Désert, Joanna K. Barstow, Thomas Mikal-Evans, Vincent Bourrier, Panayotis Lavvas, Hannah R. Wakeford, Michael H. Williamson, Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Lars A. Buchhave, Ofer Cohen, Antonio García Muñoz
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We present a 0.3−5 μm transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32Ab observed with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and Wide Field Camera 3 instruments mounted on the Hubble Space Telescope, combined with Spitzer Infrared Array Camera photometry. The spectrum is composed of 51 spectrophotometric bins with widths ranging between 150 and 400 Å, measured to a median precision of 215 ppm. Comparisons of the observed transmission spectrum to a grid of 1D radiative-convective equilibrium models indicate the presence of clouds/hazes, consistent with previous transit observations and secondary eclipse measurements. To provide more robust constraints on the planet's atmospheric properties, …
Updated Parameters And A New Transmission Spectrum Of Hd 97658b, Xueying Guo, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Diana Dragomir, Molly Kosiarek, Joshua Lothringer, Thomas Mikal-Evans, Lee J. Rosenthal, Björn Benneke, Heather Knutson, Paul A. Dalba, Eliza M. R. Kempton, Gregory W. Henry, Peter R. Mccullough, Travis Barman, Sarah C. Blunt, Ashley Chontos, Jonathan J. Fortney, Benjamin Fulton, Lea A. Hirsch, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Jaymie Matthews, Teo Mocnik, Caroline Morley, Erik A. Petigura, Lauren M. Weiss
Updated Parameters And A New Transmission Spectrum Of Hd 97658b, Xueying Guo, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Diana Dragomir, Molly Kosiarek, Joshua Lothringer, Thomas Mikal-Evans, Lee J. Rosenthal, Björn Benneke, Heather Knutson, Paul A. Dalba, Eliza M. R. Kempton, Gregory W. Henry, Peter R. Mccullough, Travis Barman, Sarah C. Blunt, Ashley Chontos, Jonathan J. Fortney, Benjamin Fulton, Lea A. Hirsch, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Jaymie Matthews, Teo Mocnik, Caroline Morley, Erik A. Petigura, Lauren M. Weiss
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Recent years have seen increasing interest in the characterization of sub-Neptune-sized planets because of their prevalence in the Galaxy, contrasted with their absence in our solar system. HD 97658 is one of the brightest stars hosting a planet of this kind, and we present the transmission spectrum of this planet by combining four Hubble Space Telescope transits, 12 Spitzer/IRAC transits, and eight MOST transits of this system. Our transmission spectrum has a higher signal-to-noise ratio than those from previous works, and the result suggests that the slight increase in transit depth from wavelength 1.1–1.7 μm reported in previous works on …
Optical To Near-Infrared Transmission Spectrum Of The Warm Sub-Saturn Hat-P-12b, Ian Wong, Björn Benneke, Peter Gao, Heather Knutson, Yayaati Chachan, Gregory W. Henry, Drake Deming, Tiffany Kataria, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Nikolay Nikolov, David K. Sing, Gilda E. Ballester, Nathaniel J. Baskin, Hannah R. Wakeford, Michael H. Williamson
Optical To Near-Infrared Transmission Spectrum Of The Warm Sub-Saturn Hat-P-12b, Ian Wong, Björn Benneke, Peter Gao, Heather Knutson, Yayaati Chachan, Gregory W. Henry, Drake Deming, Tiffany Kataria, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Nikolay Nikolov, David K. Sing, Gilda E. Ballester, Nathaniel J. Baskin, Hannah R. Wakeford, Michael H. Williamson
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We present the transmission spectrum of HAT-P-12b through a joint analysis of data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and Wide Field Camera 3 and Spitzer, covering the wavelength range 0.3–5.0 μm. We detect a muted water vapor absorption feature at 1.4 μm attenuated by clouds, as well as a Rayleigh scattering slope in the optical indicative of small particles. We interpret the transmission spectrum using both the state-of-the-art atmospheric retrieval code SCARLET and the aerosol microphysics model CARMA. These models indicate that the atmosphere of HAT-P-12b is consistent with a broad range of metallicities between …
Evaluating Climate Variability Of The Canonical Hot-Jupiters Hd 189733b And Hd 209458b Through Multi-Epoch Eclipse Observations, Brian M. Kilpatrick, Tiffany Kataria, Nikole K. Lewis, Robert T. Zellem, Gregory W. Henry, Nicolas B. Cowan, Julien De Wit, Jonathan J. Fortney, Heather Knutson, Sara Seager, Adam P. Showman, Gregory S. Tucker
Evaluating Climate Variability Of The Canonical Hot-Jupiters Hd 189733b And Hd 209458b Through Multi-Epoch Eclipse Observations, Brian M. Kilpatrick, Tiffany Kataria, Nikole K. Lewis, Robert T. Zellem, Gregory W. Henry, Nicolas B. Cowan, Julien De Wit, Jonathan J. Fortney, Heather Knutson, Sara Seager, Adam P. Showman, Gregory S. Tucker
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Here we present the analysis of multi-epoch secondary eclipse observations of HD 189733b and HD 209458b as a probe of temporal variability in the planetary climate using both Spitzer channels 1 and 2 (3.6 and 4.5 μm). We expect hot-Jupiter atmospheres to be dynamic environments exhibiting time varying weather. However, it is uncertain to what extent temporal variability will be observable when considering disk integrated observations. We do not detect statistically significant variability and are able to place useful upper limits on the infrared variability amplitudes in these atmospheres. There are very few planets with multi-epoch observations at the required …
Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How The Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects The Onset Of Methane, Ammonia, And Clouds In Warm Transiting Giant Planets, Jonathan J. Fortney, Channon Visscher, Mark S. Marley, Callie E. Hood, Michael R. Line, Daniel P. Thorngren, Richard S. Freedman, Roxana Lupu
Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How The Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects The Onset Of Methane, Ammonia, And Clouds In Warm Transiting Giant Planets, Jonathan J. Fortney, Channon Visscher, Mark S. Marley, Callie E. Hood, Michael R. Line, Daniel P. Thorngren, Richard S. Freedman, Roxana Lupu
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The atmospheric pressure–temperature profiles for transiting giant planets cross a range of chemical transitions. Here we show that the particular shapes of these irradiated profiles for warm giant planets below ∼1300 K lead to striking differences in the behavior of nonequilibrium chemistry compared to brown dwarfs of similar temperatures. Our particular focus is H2O, CO, CH4, CO2, and NH3 in Jupiter- and Neptune-class planets. We show that the cooling history of a planet, which depends most significantly on planetary mass and age, can have a dominant effect on abundances in the visible atmosphere, often swamping trends one might expect based …