Bibcode
Casasayas-Barris, N.; Palle, E.; Nowak, G.; Yan, F.; Nortmann, L.; Murgas, F.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 608, id.A135, 15 pp.
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2017
Journal
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81
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76
Description
Context. Transit spectroscopy is one of the most commonly used methods
to characterize exoplanets' atmospheres. From the ground, these
observations are very challenging due to the terrestrial atmosphere and
its intrinsic variations, but high-spectral-resolution observations
overcome this difficulty by resolving the spectral lines and taking
advantage of the different Doppler velocities of the Earth, the host
star, and the exoplanet. Aims: We analyze the transmission
spectrum around the Na I doublet at 589 nm of the extrasolar planet
WASP-69b, a hot Jupiter orbiting a K-type star with a period of 3.868
days, and compare the analysis to that of the well-known hot Jupiter HD
189733b. We also present the analysis of the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM)
effect for WASP-69b. Methods: We observed two transits of
WASP-69b with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher
(HARPS-North) spectrograph (R = 115 000) at the Telescopio Nazionale
Galileo (TNG). We perform a telluric contamination subtraction based on
the comparison between the observed spectra and a telluric water model.
Then, the common steps of the differential spectroscopy are followed to
extract the transmission spectrum. The method is tested with archival
transit data of the extensively studied exoplanet HD 189733b, obtained
with the HARPS-South spectrograph at ESO 3.6 m telescope, and then
applied to WASP-69b data. Results: For HD 189733b, we spectrally
resolve the Na I doublet and measure line contrasts of 0.72 ±
0.05% (D2) and 0.51 ± 0.05% (D1), and full width half maximum
(FWHM) values of 0.64 ± 0.04 Å (D2) and 0.60 ± 0.06
Å (D1), in agreement with previously published results. For
WASP-69b only the contrast of the D2 line can be measured (5.8 ±
0.3%). This corresponds to a detection at the 5σ-level of excess
absorption of 0.5 ± 0.1% in a passband of 1.5 Å. A net
blueshift of 0.04 Å is measured for HD 189733b and no shift is
obtained for WASP-69b. By measuring the RM effect, we get an angular
rotation of 0.24-0.01+0.02 rad/day and a
sky-projected angle between the stellar rotation axis and the normal of
orbit plane (λ) of 0.4-1.9+2.0° for
WASP-69b. Similar results to those previously presented in the
literature are obtained for the RM analysis of HD 189733b.
Conclusions: Even if sodium features are clearly detected in the
WASP-69b transmission spectrum, more transits are needed to fully
characterize the line profiles and retrieve accurate atmospheric
properties.
The transmission spectra and the observed spectro-photometric light
curves are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (http://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/608/A135
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