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We present an optical to near-infrared transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-1b, based on HST observations, covering the spectral regime from 0.29 to 1.027{\mu}m with STIS, which is coupled with a recent WFC3 transit (1.087 to…

We present Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared transmission spectroscopy of the transiting exoplanet HD 189733b, using Wide Field Camera 3. This consists of time-series spectra of two transits, used to measure the wavelength dependence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. P. Gibson , S. Aigrain , F. Pont , D. Sing , J. -M. Désert , T. M. Evans , G. Henry , N. Husnoo , H. Knutson

Traditionally, ground-based spectrophotometric observations probing transiting exoplanet atmospheres have employed a linear map between comparison and target star light curves (e.g. via differential spectrophotometry) to correct for…

Stellar activity is one of the main obstacles to high-precision exoplanet observations and has motivated extensive studies in detection and characterization problems. Most efforts focused on unocculted starspots in optical transit…

The seven approximately Earth-sized transiting planets in the \object{TRAPPIST-1} system provide a unique opportunity to explore habitable zone and non-habitable zone small planets within the same system. Its habitable zone exoplanets --…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Zhanbo Zhang , Yifan Zhou , Benjamin V. Rackham , Daniel Apai

High-precision transit observations provide excellent opportunities for characterizing the physical properties of exoplanetary systems. These physical properties supply many pieces of information for unvealing the internal structure,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Lu Bai , Shenghong Gu , Xiaobin Wang , Leilei Sun , Chi-Tai Kwok , Ho-Keung Hui

We re-visit the principles of transmission spectroscopy for transiting extrasolar planets, focusing on the overlap between the planetary spectrum and the illuminating stellar spectrum. Virtually all current models of exoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Drake Deming , Kyle Sheppard

We present new analysis of infrared transmission spectroscopy of the cloud-free hot-Saturn WASP-96b performed with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes (HST and Spitzer). The WASP-96b spectrum exhibits the absorption feature from water…

Secondary eclipses are a powerful tool to measure directly the thermal emission from extrasolar planets, and to constrain their type and physical parameters. We started a project to obtain reliable broad-band measurements of the thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Caceres , V. D. Ivanov , D. Minniti , A. Burrows , F. Selman , C. Melo , D. Naef , E. Mason , G. Pietrzynski

Rayleigh scattering in a hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmosphere can be detected from ground or space based telescopes, however, stellar activity in the form of spots can mimic Rayleigh scattering in the observed transmission spectrum.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 F. Murgas , G. Chen , E. Pallé , L. Nortmann , G. Nowak

Previous measurements of heat redistribution efficiency (the ability to transport energy from a planet's highly irradiated dayside to its eternally dark nightside) show considerable variation between exoplanets. Theoretical models predict a…

Here we present a thermal emission spectrum of WASP-79b, obtained via Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 G141 observations as part of the PanCET program. As we did not observe the ingress or egress of WASP-79b's secondary eclipse,…

WASP-80 is one of only two systems known to contain a hot Jupiter which transits its M-dwarf host star. We present eight light curves of one transit event, obtained simultaneously using two defocussed telescopes. These data were taken…

We present 12 new transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-46b obtained with the 1.54-m telescope at Estaci\'on Astrof\'isica de Bosque Alegre (EABA, Argentina) and the 0.40-m Horacio Ghielmetti and 2.15-m Jorge Sahade telescopes at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 R. Petrucci , E. Jofré , L. V. Ferrero , V. Cúneo , L. Saker , F. Lovos , M. Gómez , P. Mauas

We report the discovery of three new transiting hot Jupiters by WASP-South together with the TRAPPIST photometer and the Euler/CORALIE spectrograph. WASP-74b orbits a star of V = 9.7, making it one of the brighter systems accessible to…

We report on photometric follow-up of the recently discovered transiting planet WASP-1b. We observed two transits with the Wise Observatory 1m telescope, and used a variant of the EBOP code together with the Sys-Rem detrending approach to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Avi Shporer , Omer Tamuz , Shay Zucker , Tsevi Mazeh

High resolution precision spectroscopy provides a multitude of robust techniques for probing exoplanetary atmospheres. We present multiple VLT/ESPRESSO transit observations of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet WASP-19b with previously published but…

The spectral signatures of optical absorbers, when combined with those of infrared molecules, play a critical role in constraining the cloud properties of exoplanet atmospheres. We aim to use optical transmission spectroscopy to confirm the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Huiyi Kang , Guo Chen , Chengzi Jiang , Enric Palle , Felipe Murgas , Hannu Parviainen , Yuehua Ma , Akihiko Fukui , Norio Narita

Recent progress in high-resolution transmission spectroscopy has offered new avenues in which to characterise the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets. High-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy allows for the unambiguous detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Cathal Maguire , Neale P. Gibson , Stevanus K. Nugroho , Swaetha Ramkumar , Mark Fortune , Stephanie R. Merritt , Ernst de Mooij

Exoplanets with cloud-free, haze-free atmospheres at the pressures probed by transmission spectroscopy represent a valuable opportunity for detailed atmospheric characterization and precise chemical abundance constraints. We present the…