Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of Ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b

Stangret, Monika; Casasayas-Barris, Núria; Palle, Enric; Yan, Fei; Sánchez-López, Alejandro; López-Puertas, Manuel
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European Planetary Science Congress

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9
2020
Number of authors
6
IAC number of authors
3
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0
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0
Description
Thanks to the different Doppler velocities of the Earth, the host star and the planet using high-resolution spectroscopy we are able to detect and characterise exoplanetary atmospheres. Exoplanetary signal is buried in the residual noise, however by preforming cross-correlation of atmospheric transmission model and hundreds of atmospheric lines the signal can be increase. Studying the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters, objects with the temperature higher than 2200K which orbit close to their host stars, gives us great laboratory to study chemistry of the exoplanets. MASCARA-2b also known as KELT-20b with the temperature of 2230 K is a perfect example of ultra hot Jupiter. We studied this object using three transit observations obtained with HARPS-North. Using cross-correlation method we detected strong absorption of Fe I and FeII, which agrees with theoretical models. Additionally, because of the fast rotation of the star, the crosscorrelation residuals show strong Rossiter-MacLaughlin effect.