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An optical transmission spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter in the metal-poor WASP-98 planetary system

Mancini, L.; Giordano, M.; Mollière, P.; Southworth, J.; Brahm, R.; Ciceri, S.; Henning, Th.

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Authors

L. Mancini

M. Giordano

P. Mollière

R. Brahm

S. Ciceri

Th. Henning



Abstract

The WASP-98 planetary system represents a rare case of a hot Jupiter hosted by a metal-poor main-sequence star. We present a follow-up study of this system based on multiband photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy. Two new transit events of WASP-98 b were simultaneously observed in four passbands (g', r', i', z'), using the telescope-defocusing technique, yielding eight high-precision light curves with point-to-point scatters of less than 1 mmag. We also collected three spectra of the parent star with a high-resolution spectrograph, which we used to remeasure its spectral characteristics, in particular its metallicity. We found this to be very low, [Fe/H] = -0.49 ± 0.10, but larger than was previously reported, [Fe/H] = -0.60 ± 0.19. We used these new photometric and spectroscopic data to refine the orbital and physical properties of this planetary system, finding that the stellar and planetary mass measurements are significantly larger than those in the discovery paper. In addition, the multiband light curves were used to construct an optical transmission spectrum of WASP-98 b and probe the characteristics of its atmosphere at the terminator. We measured a lower radius at z' compared with the other three passbands. The maximum variation is between the r' and z' bands, has a confidence level of roughly 6s and equates to 5.5 pressure scale heights. We compared this spectrum to theoretical models, investigating several possible types of atmospheres, including hazy, cloudy, cloud-free, and clear atmospheres with titanium and vanadium oxide opacities. We could not find a good fit to the observations, except in the extreme case of a clear atmosphere with TiO and VO opacities, in which the condensation of Ti and V was suppressed. As this case is unrealistic, our results suggest the presence of an additional optical-absorbing species in the atmosphere of WASP-98 b, of unknown chemical nature.

Citation

Mancini, L., Giordano, M., Mollière, P., Southworth, J., Brahm, R., Ciceri, S., & Henning, T. (2016). An optical transmission spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter in the metal-poor WASP-98 planetary system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), 1053 - 1061. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1386

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 4, 2016
Online Publication Date Jun 8, 2016
Publication Date Sep 1, 2016
Publicly Available Date May 26, 2023
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 461
Issue 1
Pages 1053 - 1061
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1386
Keywords techniques, photometric, spectroscopic, stars, fundamental parameters, individual, WASP-98, planetary systems
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org10.1093/mnras/stw1386

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