We present Keck/KPIC phase II K-band observations of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b. Using a cross-correlation approach, we make the first detection of the planetary atmosphere at Kp=185−13+11kms−1 and an inferior conjunction time 2.5 hours before the previously-published ephemeris. The retrieved Kp value, in combination with orbital period, mass of the host star, and lack of transit detection, gives an orbital inclination of 78−12∘+2 and a true planet mass of 1.23±0.10MJ. While the equilibrium temperature of HD 143105 b is in the transition regime between non-inverted and inverted atmospheres, our analysis strongly prefers a non-inverted atmosphere. Retrieval analysis indicates the atmosphere of HD 143105 b is cloud-free to approximately 1 bar and dominated by H2O absorption (logH2OMMR=−3.9−0.5+0.8), placing only an upper limit on the CO abundance (logCOMMR<−3.7 at 95% confidence). We place no constraints on the abundances of Fe, Mg, or 13CO. From these abundances, we place an upper limit on the carbon-to-oxygen ratio for HD 143105 b, C/O<0.2 at 95% confidence, and find the atmospheric metallicity is approximately 0.1× solar. The low metallicity may be responsible for the lack of a thermal inversion, which at the temperature of HD 143105 b would likely require significant opacity from TiO and/or VO. With these results, HD 143105 b joins the small number of non-transiting hot Jupiters with detected atmospheres.
@article{arxiv.2412.04552,
title = {True mass and atmospheric composition of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b},
author = {Luke Finnerty and Yinzi Xin and Jerry W. Xuan and Julie Inglis and Michael P Fitzgerald and Shubh Agrawal and Ashley Baker and Geoffrey A. Blake and Benjamin Calvin and Sylvain Cetre and Jacques-Robert Delorme and Greg Doppman and Daniel Echeverri and Katelyn Horstman and Chih-Chun Hsu and Nemanja Jovanovic and Joshua Liberman and Ronald A. López and Emily C. Martin and Dimitri Mawet and Evan Morris and Jacklyn Pezzato-Rovner and Jean-Baptiste Ruffio and Ben Sappey and Tobias Schofield and Andrew Skemer and Taylor Venenciano and J. Kent Wallace and Nicole L. Wallack and Jason J. Wang and Ji Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04552},
year = {2024}
}