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We present a ground based optical transmission spectrum of the inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet WASP-6b. The spectrum was measured in twenty spectral channels from 480 nm to 860nm using a series of 91 spectra over a complete transit event.…

Transit spectroscopy is the most frequently used technique to reveal the atmospheric properties of exoplanets, while that at high resolution has the advantage to resolve the small Doppler shift of spectral lines, and the trace signal of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Zewen Jiang , Wei Wang , Guo Chen , Fei Yan , Heather M. Cegla , Patricio Rojo , Yaqing Shi , Qinlin Ouyang , Meng Zhai , Yujuan Liu , Fei Zhao , Yuqin Chen

Broad-band exoplanet transit photometry can characterize the planetary atmosphere when observed at multiple selected filters. This observing technique can reveal gradients in the spectra of extrasolar planets, for example the slope of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Matthias Mallonn , Hannah R. Wakeford

Here, we present the low-resolution transmission spectroscopy of three giant planets using the Himalayan Faint Object Spectrograph Camera (HFOSC) on the 2m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) in Hanle, India. It is the first application of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-25 Athira Unni , Thirupathi Sivarani , Jayesh Goyal , Yogesh C. Joshi , Apurva V. Oza , Ravinder K Banyal

WASP-39b is a hot Saturn-mass exoplanet with a predicted clear atmosphere based on observations in the optical and infrared. Here we complete the transmission spectrum of the atmosphere with observations in the near-infrared (NIR) over…

We present the analysis of TESS optical photometry of WASP-121b, which reveal the phase curve of this transiting ultra-hot Jupiter. Its hotspot is located at the substellar point, showing inefficient heat transport from the dayside (2870 K)…

Ultra-hot jupiters (UHJs) are giant planets on short orbital periods with high equilibrium temperature (T_eq) values. Their hot, extended atmospheres are perfect laboratories for transmission spectroscopy studies based on high-resolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Stangret , N. Casasayas-Barris , E. Pallé , J. Orell-Miquel , G. Morello , R. Luque , G. Nowak , F. Yan

Ultrahot Jupiters are ideal candidates to explore with high-resolution emission spectra. Detailed theoretical studies are necessary to investigate the range of spectra we can expect to see from these objects throughout their orbit, because…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 Hayley Beltz , Emily Rauscher , Eliza M. -R Kempton , Isaac Malsky , Grace Ochs , Mireya Arora , Arjun Savel

As part of the PanCET program, we have conducted a spectroscopic study of WASP-79b, an inflated hot Jupiter orbiting an F-type star in Eridanus with a period of 3.66 days. Building on the original WASP and TRAPPIST photometry of Smalley et…

We present the results of recent observations of phase-dependent variations in brightness designed to characterize the atmospheres of hot Jupiters. In particular, we focus on recent observations of the transiting planet HD 189733b at 8…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-17 H. A. Knutson

We present ground-based optical transmission spectroscopy of the low-density hot Jupiter WASP-88b covering the wavelength range 4413-8333 {\AA} with the FORS2 spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope. The FORS2 white light curves exhibit a…

We report the discovery of eight hot-Jupiter exoplanets from the WASP-South transit survey. WASP-144b has a mass of 0.44 Mj, a radius of 0.85 Rj, and is in a 2.27-d orbit around a V = 12.9, K2 star which shows a 21-d rotational modulation.…

We present a primary transit observation for the ultra hot (Teq~2400K) gas giant expolanet WASP-121b, made using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 in spectroscopic mode across the 1.12-1.64 micron wavelength range. The 1.4…

Context: When the planet transits its host star, it is possible to measure the planetary radius and (with radial velocity data) the planet mass. For the study of planetary atmospheres, it is essential to obtain transit and occultation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-28 M. Lendl , M. Gillon , D. Queloz , R. Alonso , A. Fumel , E. Jehin , D. Naef

WASP-127b is one of the lowest density planets discovered to date. With a sub-Saturn mass ($M_{\rm p}=0.18 \pm 0.02 M_J$) and super-Jupiter radius ($R_{\rm p}= 1.37 \pm 0.04 R_J$), it orbits a bright G5 star, which is about to leave the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 E. Palle , G. Chen , J. Prieto-Arranz , G. Nowak , F. Murgas , L. Nortmann , D. Pollacco , K. Lam , P. Montanes-Rodriguez , H. Parviainen , N. Casasayas-Barris

We present the analysis of the hot-Jupiter KELT-7b using transmission and emission spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), both taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Our study uncovers a rich transmission spectrum which is…

We present new lightcurves of the massive hot Jupiter system WASP-18 obtained with the Spitzer spacecraft covering the entire orbit at 3.6 micron and 4.5 micron. These lightcurves are used to measure the amplitude, shape and phase of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. F. L. Maxted , D. R. Anderson , A. P. Doyle , M. Gillon , J. Harrington , N. Iro , E. Jehin , D. Lafrenière , B. Smalley , J. Southworth

We present observations of WASP-63b by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of "A Preparatory Program to Identify the Single Best Transiting Exoplanet for JWST Early Release Science". WASP-63b is one of the community targets under…

Of the over 200 known extrasolar planets, 14 exhibit transits in front of their parent stars as seen from Earth. Spectroscopic observations of the transiting planets can probe the physical conditions of their atmospheres. One such technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 L. Jeremy Richardson , Drake Deming , Karen Horning , Sara Seager , Joseph Harrington

We present new ground-based, multi-colour, broad-band photometric measurements of the physical parameters, transmission and emission spectra of the transiting extrasolar planet WASP-19b. The measurements are based on observations of 8…