2021A&A...646A.158T

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2021A&A...646A.158T - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 646A, 158-158 (2021/2-1)

ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b.

TABERNERO H.M., ZAPATERO OSORIO M.R., ALLART R., BORSA F., CASASAYAS-BARRIS N., DEMANGEON O., EHRENREICH D., LILLO-BOX J., LOVIS C., PALLE E., SOUSA S.G., REBOLO R., SANTOS N.C., PEPE F., CRISTIANI S., ADIBEKYAN V., ALLENDE PRIETO C., ALIBERT Y., BARROS S.C.C., BOUCHY F., BOURRIER V., D'ODORICO V., DUMUSQUE X., FARIA J.P., FIGUEIRA P., GENOVA SANTOS R., GONZALEZ HERNANDEZ J.I., HOJJATPANAH S., LO CURTO G., LAVIE B., MARTINS C.J.A.P., MARTINS J.H.C., MEHNER A., MICELA G., MOLARO P., NUNES N.J., PORETTI E., SEIDEL J.V., SOZZETTI A., SUAREZ MASCARENO A., UDRY S., ALIVERTI M., AFFOLTER M., ALVES D., AMATE M., AVILA G., BANDY T., BENZ W., BIANCO A., BROEG C., CABRAL A., CONCONI P., COELHO J., CUMANI C., DEIRIES S., DEKKER H., DELABRE B., FRAGOSO A., GENONI M., GENOLET L., HUGHES I., KNUDSTRUP J., KERBER F., LANDONI M., LIZON J.L., MAIRE C., MANESCAU A., DI MARCANTONIO P., MEGEVAND D., MONTEIRO M., MONTEIRO M., MOSCHETTI M., MUELLER E., MODIGLIANI A., OGGIONI L., OLIVEIRA A., PARIANI G., PASQUINI L., RASILLA J.L., REDAELLI E., RIVA M., SANTANA-TSCHUDI S., SANTIN P., SANTOS P., SEGOVIA A., SOSNOWSKA D., SPANO P., TENEGI F., IWERT O., ZANUTTA A. and ZERBI F.

Abstract (from CDS):

Aims. We report on ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopic observations of two primary transits of the highly irradiated, ultra-hot Jupiter-sized planet, WASP-76b. We investigated the presence of several key atomic and molecular features of interest that may reveal the atmospheric properties of the planet.
Methods. We extracted two transmission spectra of WASP-76b with R≃140000 using a procedure that allowed us to process the full ESPRESSO wavelength range (3800-7880Å) simultaneously. We observed that at a high signal-to-noise ratio, the continuum of ESPRESSO spectra shows 'wiggles', which are likely caused by an interference pattern outside the spectrograph. To search for the planetary features, we visually analysed the extracted transmission spectra and cross-correlated the observations against theoretical spectra of different atomic and molecular species.
Results. The following atomic features are detected: LiI, NaI, MgI, CaII, MnI, KI, and FeI. All are detected with a confidence level between 9.2σ (NaI) and 2.8σ (MgI). We did not detect the following species: TiI, CrI, NiI, TiO, VO, and ZrO. We impose the following 1σ upper limits on their detectability: 60, 77, 122, 6, 8, and 8ppm, respectively.
Conclusions. We report the detection of LiI on WASP-76b for the first time.In addition, we confirm the presence of NaI and FeI as previously reported in the literature. We show that the procedure employed in this work can detect features down to the level of ∼0.1% in the transmission spectrum and ∼10 ppm by means of a cross-correlation method. We discuss the presence of neutral and singly ionised features in the atmosphere of WASP-76b.

Abstract Copyright: © ESO 2021

Journal keyword(s): planets and satellites: atmospheres - planets and satellites: individual: WASP-76b

Simbad objects: 8

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Number of rows : 8

N	Identifier	Otype	ICRS (J2000) RA	ICRS (J2000) DEC	Mag B	Mag V	Sp type	#ref 1850 - 2023	#notes
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2	BD+01 316b	Pl	01 46 31.8576707085	+02 42 02.033178181			~	165	0
3	HD 15082b	Pl	02 26 51.0582746497	+37 33 01.737746137			~	309	1
4	CD-38 3220b	Pl	07 10 24.0606039387	-39 05 50.570553937			~	257	0
5	HD 185603b	Pl	19 38 38.7352870670	+31 13 09.215701765			~	109	0
6	HD 189733b	Pl	20 00 43.7130382888	+22 42 39.071811263			~	1351	1
7	HD 195689b	Pl	20 31 26.3534038246	+39 56 19.765154336			~	234	0
8	HD 209458b	Pl	22 03 10.7729598762	+18 53 03.548248479			~	1775	1

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