Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b

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Autores principales: Mounzer, Dany, Lovis, Christophe, Seidel, Julia V., Attia, Mara, Allart, Romain, Bourrier, Vincent, Ehrenreich, David, Wyttenbach, Aurélien, Astudillo-Defru, Nicola, Beatty, Thomas G., Cegla, Heather, Heng, Kevin, Lavie, Baptiste, Lendl, Monika, Melo, Claudio, Pepe, Francesco, Pepper, Joshua, Rodriguez, Joseph E., Ségransan, Damien, Udry, Stéphane, Linder, Esther, Sousa, Sergio
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author Mounzer, Dany
Lovis, Christophe
Seidel, Julia V.
Attia, Mara
Allart, Romain
Bourrier, Vincent
Ehrenreich, David
Wyttenbach, Aurélien
Astudillo-Defru, Nicola
Beatty, Thomas G.
Cegla, Heather
Heng, Kevin
Lavie, Baptiste
Lendl, Monika
Melo, Claudio
Pepe, Francesco
Pepper, Joshua
Rodriguez, Joseph E.
Ségransan, Damien
Udry, Stéphane
Linder, Esther
Sousa, Sergio
author_facet Mounzer, Dany
Lovis, Christophe
Seidel, Julia V.
Attia, Mara
Allart, Romain
Bourrier, Vincent
Ehrenreich, David
Wyttenbach, Aurélien
Astudillo-Defru, Nicola
Beatty, Thomas G.
Cegla, Heather
Heng, Kevin
Lavie, Baptiste
Lendl, Monika
Melo, Claudio
Pepe, Francesco
Pepper, Joshua
Rodriguez, Joseph E.
Ségransan, Damien
Udry, Stéphane
Linder, Esther
Sousa, Sergio
contents KELT-11b is an inflated sub-Saturn with a hot atmosphere and that orbits a bright evolved subgiant star, making it a prime choice for atmospheric characterization, but that transits its host star for more than seven hours. We observed this system in series of three consecutive nights with the HARPS spectrograph and report on the analysis of the transmission spectrum obtained from this dataset. Our results highlight the potential for independent observations of a long-transiting planet over consecutive nights. Our study reveals a sodium excess absorption of $0.28 \pm 0.05 %$ and $0.50 \pm 0.06 %$ in the Na D1 and D2 lines, respectively. This corresponds to 1.44 and 1.69 times the white-light planet radius in the line cores. Wind pattern modeling tends to prefer day-to-night side winds with no vertical winds, which is surprising considering the planet bloatedness. The modeling of the Rossiter-Mclaughlin effect yields a significantly misaligned orbit, with a projected spin-orbit angle of $λ = -77.86^{+2.36}_{-2.26}{}^\circ$. The characteristics of KELT-11 b, notably its extreme scale height and long transit, make it an ideal and unique target for next-generation telescopes. Our results as well as recent findings from HST, TESS, and CHEOPS observations could make KELT-11 b a benchmark exoplanet in atmospheric characterization.
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spellingShingle Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b
Mounzer, Dany
Lovis, Christophe
Seidel, Julia V.
Attia, Mara
Allart, Romain
Bourrier, Vincent
Ehrenreich, David
Wyttenbach, Aurélien
Astudillo-Defru, Nicola
Beatty, Thomas G.
Cegla, Heather
Heng, Kevin
Lavie, Baptiste
Lendl, Monika
Melo, Claudio
Pepe, Francesco
Pepper, Joshua
Rodriguez, Joseph E.
Ségransan, Damien
Udry, Stéphane
Linder, Esther
Sousa, Sergio
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
KELT-11b is an inflated sub-Saturn with a hot atmosphere and that orbits a bright evolved subgiant star, making it a prime choice for atmospheric characterization, but that transits its host star for more than seven hours. We observed this system in series of three consecutive nights with the HARPS spectrograph and report on the analysis of the transmission spectrum obtained from this dataset. Our results highlight the potential for independent observations of a long-transiting planet over consecutive nights. Our study reveals a sodium excess absorption of $0.28 \pm 0.05 %$ and $0.50 \pm 0.06 %$ in the Na D1 and D2 lines, respectively. This corresponds to 1.44 and 1.69 times the white-light planet radius in the line cores. Wind pattern modeling tends to prefer day-to-night side winds with no vertical winds, which is surprising considering the planet bloatedness. The modeling of the Rossiter-Mclaughlin effect yields a significantly misaligned orbit, with a projected spin-orbit angle of $λ = -77.86^{+2.36}_{-2.26}{}^\circ$. The characteristics of KELT-11 b, notably its extreme scale height and long transit, make it an ideal and unique target for next-generation telescopes. Our results as well as recent findings from HST, TESS, and CHEOPS observations could make KELT-11 b a benchmark exoplanet in atmospheric characterization.
title Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00597