PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). I. The Ubiquity of Fe I Emission and Inversions in Ultra Hot Jupiter Atmospheres

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Hauptverfasser: Petz, Sydney, Johnson, Marshall C., Asnodkar, Anusha Pai, Duck, Alison, Wang, Ji, Ilyin, Ilya, Strassmeier, Klaus G.
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author Petz, Sydney
Johnson, Marshall C.
Asnodkar, Anusha Pai
Duck, Alison
Wang, Ji
Ilyin, Ilya
Strassmeier, Klaus G.
author_facet Petz, Sydney
Johnson, Marshall C.
Asnodkar, Anusha Pai
Duck, Alison
Wang, Ji
Ilyin, Ilya
Strassmeier, Klaus G.
contents We present high-resolution optical emission spectroscopy observations of the ultra hot Jupiters (UHJs) TOI-1431 b and TOI-1518 b using the PEPSI spectrograph on the LBT. We detect emission lines from Fe I with a significance of 5.68 $σ$ and 7.68 $σ$ for TOI 1431 b and TOI-1518 b, respectively. We also tentatively detect Cr I emission from TOI-1431 b at $4.32σ$. For TOI-1518 b, we tentatively detect Ni I, Fe II, and Mg I at significance levels ranging from $3-4σ$. Detection of emission lines indicates that both planets possess temperature inversions in their atmospheres, providing further evidence of the ubiquity of stratospheres among UHJs. By analyzing the population of hot Jupiters, we compare models that predict the distribution of planets in the temperature-gravity space, and find a recent global circulation model suite from Roth et al. (2024) provides a reasonable match to the observed onset of inversions at $T_{\mathrm{eq}}\sim2000$ K. The ubiquity of strong Fe I emission lines among UHJs, together with the paucity of detections of TiO, suggest that atomic iron is the dominant optical opacity source in their atmospheres and can be responsible for the inversions.
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spellingShingle PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). I. The Ubiquity of Fe I Emission and Inversions in Ultra Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
Petz, Sydney
Johnson, Marshall C.
Asnodkar, Anusha Pai
Duck, Alison
Wang, Ji
Ilyin, Ilya
Strassmeier, Klaus G.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
We present high-resolution optical emission spectroscopy observations of the ultra hot Jupiters (UHJs) TOI-1431 b and TOI-1518 b using the PEPSI spectrograph on the LBT. We detect emission lines from Fe I with a significance of 5.68 $σ$ and 7.68 $σ$ for TOI 1431 b and TOI-1518 b, respectively. We also tentatively detect Cr I emission from TOI-1431 b at $4.32σ$. For TOI-1518 b, we tentatively detect Ni I, Fe II, and Mg I at significance levels ranging from $3-4σ$. Detection of emission lines indicates that both planets possess temperature inversions in their atmospheres, providing further evidence of the ubiquity of stratospheres among UHJs. By analyzing the population of hot Jupiters, we compare models that predict the distribution of planets in the temperature-gravity space, and find a recent global circulation model suite from Roth et al. (2024) provides a reasonable match to the observed onset of inversions at $T_{\mathrm{eq}}\sim2000$ K. The ubiquity of strong Fe I emission lines among UHJs, together with the paucity of detections of TiO, suggest that atomic iron is the dominant optical opacity source in their atmospheres and can be responsible for the inversions.
title PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). I. The Ubiquity of Fe I Emission and Inversions in Ultra Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09643