Table · dataset · 2019
GTC transit light curves of HAT-P-11b
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Rayleigh scattering in a hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmosphere can be detected using ground- or space-based telescopes.
Description
However, stellar activity in the form of spots can mimic Rayleigh scattering in the observed transmission spectrum. Quantifying this phenomena is key to our correct interpretation of exoplanet atmospheric properties.
We obtained Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) long-slit optical spectroscopy of two transits of HAT-P-11b with the Optical System for Imaging and low-Intermediate-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (OSIRIS) on August 30, 2016 and September 25, 2017. By fitting both transits together, we find a slope in the transmission spectrum showing an increase of the planetary radius towards blue wavelengths. Closer inspection of the transmission spectrum of the individual data sets reveals that the first transit presents this slope while the transmission spectrum of the second data set is flat.
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Additionally, we detect hints of Na absorption on the first night, but not on the second. We conclude that the transmission spectrum slope and Na absorption excess found in the first transit observation are caused by unocculted stellar spots. Modeling the contribution of unocculted spots to reproduce the results of the first night we find a spot filling factor of delta=0.62^+0.20^_-0.17_ and a spot-to-photosphere temperature difference of {Delta}T=429^+184^_-299_K.
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- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/622/A172 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2019A&A...622A.172M ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...622A.172M ↗
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Topics
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- Astronomy & Astrophysics
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- Imaging 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/a+a/622/a172 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
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