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We present dayside thermal emission observations of the hottest exoplanet KELT-9b using the new MAROON-X spectrograph. We detect atomic lines in emission with a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 using cross-correlation with binary masks. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 David H. Kasper , Jacob L. Bean , Michael R. Line , Andreas Seifahrt , Julian Stürmer , Lorenzo Pino , Jean-Michel Desert , Matteo Brogi

We revisit the atmospheric properties of the extremely hot Jupiter WASP-12b in light of several new developments. First, new narrowband (2.315 micron) secondary eclipse photometry that we present here, which exhibits a planet/star flux…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-20 Ian J. M. Crossfield , Travis Barman , Brad M. S. Hansen , Ichi Tanaka , Tadayuki Kodama

We analyze variations in the transit lightcurves of CoRoT-2b, a massive hot Jupiter orbiting a highly active G star. We use one transit lightcurve to eclipse-map a photospheric spot occulted by the planet. In this case study we determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 U. Wolter , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , K. F. Huber , S. Czesla , H. M. Mueller , E. W. Guenther , A. P. Hatzes

As a planet eclipses its parent star, a dark spot on the surface of the star may be occulted, causing a detectable variation in the light curve. A total of 77 consecutive transit light curves of CoRoT-2 were observed with a high temporal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adriana Silva-Valio , A. F. Lanza , R. Alonso , P. Barge

The full range of conditions under which rocky planets can host atmospheres remains poorly understood, especially in the regime of close-in orbits around late-type stars. One way to assess the presence of atmospheres on rocky exoplanets is…

We present here our observations and analysis of the dayside emission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-103b. We observed WASP-103b during secondary eclipse using two visits of the Hubble Space Telescope with the G141 grism on Wide Field…

We analyzed two eclipse observations of the low-density transiting, likely grazing, exoplanet WASP-34b with the Spitzer Space Telescope's InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) using two techniques to correct for intrapixel sensitivity variation:…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Ryan C. Challener , Joseph Harrington , Patricio E. Cubillos , Jasmina Blecic , Barry Smalley

Phase curve observations provide an opportunity to study the full energy budgets of exoplanets by quantifying the amount of heat redistributed from their daysides to their nightsides. Theories explaining the properties of phase curves for…

In the past few years, the study of exoplanets has evolved from being pure discovery, then being more exploratory in nature and finally becoming very quantitative. In particular, transmission spectroscopy now allows the study of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 E. Sedaghati , H. M. J. Boffin , Sz. Csizmadia , N. Gibson , P. Kabath , M. Mallonn , M. E. Van den Ancker

CONTEXT: Thermal emission from extrasolar planets makes it possible to study important physical processes in their atmospheres and derive more precise orbital elements. AIMS: By using new near infrared and optical data, we examine how these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 G. Kovacs , I. Dekany , B. Karamiqucham , G. Chen , G. Zhou , M. Rabus , T. Kovacs

Relative CCD photometry of the extrasolar planet COROT-Exo-2b transiting in front of its parent star was carried out at the Astronomical and Geophysical Observatory of Comenius University at Modra (AGO). Physical and orbital parameters were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Peter Vereš , Ján Budaj , Jozef Világi , Adrian Galád , Leonard Kornoš

WASP-8b has 2.18 times Jupiter's mass and is on an eccentric ($e=0.31$) 8.16-day orbit. With a time-averaged equilibrium temperature of 948 K, it is one of the least-irradiated hot Jupiters observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We have…

We discuss atmosphere models of HD209458b in light of the recent day-side flux measurement of HD209458b's secondary eclipse by Spitzer-MIPS at 24 microns. In addition, we present a revised secondary eclipse IRTF upper limit at 2.2 microns…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Seager , L. J. Richardson , B. M. S. Hansen , K. Menou , J. Y-K. Cho , D. Deming

We study the emergent spectral fluxes of transiting hot Jupiters, using secondary eclipses from Spitzer. To achieve a large and uniform sample, we have re-analyzed all secondary eclipses for all hot Jupiters observed by Spitzer at 3.6-…

We observed a secondary eclipse of WASP-33b quasi-simultaneously in the optical (~0.55 {\mu}m) and the near-infrared (~1.05 {\mu}m) using the 2x8.4 m Large Binocular Telescope. WASP-33 is a {\delta} Scuti star pulsating with periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 C. von Essen , M. Mallonn , S. Albrecht , V. Antoci , A. M. S. Smith , S. Dreizler , K. G. Strassmeier

We derive the first secondary eclipse map of an exoplanet, HD 189733b, based on Spitzer IRAC 8 micron data. We develop two complementary techniques for deriving the two dimensional planet intensity: regularized slice mapping and spherical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Majeau , E. Agol , N. Cowan

We present z'-band secondary eclipse photometry of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-12b using ULTRACAM on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. We measure a decrease in flux of \delta = 0.130+/-0.013% during the passage of the planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Föhring , V. S. Dhillon , Nikku Madhusudhan , T. R. Marsh , C. M. Copperwheat , S. P. Littlefair , Richard W. Wilson

Exoplanets that orbit close to their host stars are much more highly irradiated than their Solar System counterparts. Understanding the thermal structures and appearances of these planets requires investigating how their atmospheres respond…

We present observations spanning 355 orbital phases of HAT-P-7 observed by Kepler from May 2009 to March 2011 (Q1-9). We find a shallower secondary eclipse depth than initially announced, consistent with a low optical albedo and detection…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Brett M. Morris , Avi M. Mandell , Drake Deming

We present a high precision H-band emission spectrum of the transiting brown dwarf KELT-1b, which we spectrophotometrically observed during a single secondary eclipse using the LUCI1 multi-object spectrograph on the Large Binocular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Thomas G. Beatty , Nikku Madhusudhan , Richard Pogge , Sun Mi Chung , Allyson Bierlya , B. Scott Gaudi , David W. Latham