English

Detection and Bulk Properties of the HR 8799 Planets with High Resolution Spectroscopy

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-09-29 v1

Abstract

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), we obtained high-resolution (R\sim35,000) KK-band spectra of the four planets orbiting HR 8799. We clearly detected \water{} and CO in the atmospheres of HR 8799 c, d, and e, and tentatively detected a combination of CO and \water{} in b. These are the most challenging directly imaged exoplanets that have been observed at high spectral resolution to date when considering both their angular separations and flux ratios. We developed a forward modeling framework that allows us to jointly fit the spectra of the planets and the diffracted starlight simultaneously in a likelihood-based approach and obtained posterior probabilities on their effective temperatures, surface gravities, radial velocities, and spins. We measured vsin(i)v\sin(i) values of 10.12.7+2.810.1^{+2.8}_{-2.7}~km/s for HR 8799 d and 15.02.6+2.315.0^{+2.3}_{-2.6}~km/s for HR 8799 e, and placed an upper limit of <14< 14~km/s of HR 8799 c. Under two different assumptions of their obliquities, we found tentative evidence that rotation velocity is anti-correlated with companion mass, which could indicate that magnetic braking with a circumplanetary disk at early times is less efficient at spinning down lower mass planets.

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@article{arxiv.2107.06949,
  title  = {Detection and Bulk Properties of the HR 8799 Planets with High Resolution Spectroscopy},
  author = {Jason J. Wang and Jean-Baptiste Ruffio and Evan Morris and Jacques-Robert Delorme and Nemanja Jovanovic and Jacklyn Pezzato and Daniel Echeverri and Luke Finnerty and Callie Hood and J. J. Zanazzi and Marta L. Bryan and Charlotte Z. Bond and Sylvain Cetre and Emily C. Martin and Dimitri Mawet and Andy Skemer and Ashley Baker and Jerry W. Xuan and J. Kent Wallace and Ji Wang and Randall Bartos and Geoffrey A. Blake and Andy Boden and Cam Buzard and Benjamin Calvin and Mark Chun and Greg Doppmann and Trent J. Dupuy and Gaspard Duchêne and Y. Katherina Feng and Michael P. Fitzgerald and Jonathan Fortney and Richard S. Freedman and Heather Knutson and Quinn Konopacky and Scott Lilley and Michael C. Liu and Ronald Lopez and Roxana Lupu and Mark S. Marley and Tiffany Meshkat and Brittany Miles and Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer and Sam Ragland and Arpita Roy and Garreth Ruane and Ben Sappey and Tobias Schofield and Lauren Weiss and Edward Wetherell and Peter Wizinowich and Marie Ygouf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.06949},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

31 pages, 12 figures, Accepted to AJ