Spitzer Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of the Hot Neptune LTT 9779b
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Dragomir, Diana
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Crossfield, Ian J. M.
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Benneke, Bjoern
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Wong, Ian
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Daylan, Tansu
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Díaz, Matias
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Deming, Drake
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Molliere, Paul
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Kreidberg, Laura
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Jenkins, James Stewart
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Berardo, David
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Christiansen, Jessie L.
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Dressing, Courtney D.
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Gorjian, Varoujan
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Kane, Stephen R.
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Mikal Evans, Thomas
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Morales, Farisa Y.
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Werner, Michael
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Ricker, George R.
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Vanderspek, Roland
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Seager, S.
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Winn, Joshua N.
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Jenkins, Jon M.
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Colon, Knicole D.
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Fong, Willie
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Cuevas Guerrero, Natalia Alejandra
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Hesse, Katharine
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Osborn, Hugh P.
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Rose, Mark E.
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Smith, Jeffrey C.
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Ting, Eric B.
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2021-04-08T15:23:34Z
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2021-04-08T15:23:34Z
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2020
Cita de ítem
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Astrophysical Journal Letters Volumen: 903 Número: 1 Número de artículo: L6 Nov 2020
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10.3847/2041-8213/abbc70
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/179015
Abstract
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Non-rocky sub-Jovian exoplanets in high-irradiation environments are rare. LTT 9779b, also known as Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) object of interest (TOI) 193.01, is one of the few such planets discovered to date, and the first example of an ultrahot Neptune. The planet's bulk density indicates that it has a substantial atmosphere, so to investigate its atmospheric composition and shed further light on its origin, we obtained Spitzer InfraRed Array Camera secondary eclipse observations of LTT 9779b at 3.6 and 4.5 mu m. We combined the Spitzer observations with a measurement of the secondary eclipse in the TESS bandpass. The resulting secondary eclipse spectrum strongly prefers a model that includes CO absorption over a blackbody spectrum, incidentally making LTT 9779b the first TESS exoplanet (and the first ultrahot Neptune) with evidence of a spectral feature in its atmosphere. We did not find evidence of a thermal inversion, at odds with expectations based on the atmospheres of similarly irradiated hot Jupiters. We also report a nominal dayside brightness temperature of 2305 141 K (based on the 3.6 mu m secondary eclipse measurement), and we constrained the planet's orbital eccentricity to e < 0.01 at the 99.7% confidence level. Together with our analysis of LTT 9779b's thermal phase curves reported in a companion paper, our results set the stage for similar investigations of a larger sample of exoplanets discovered in the hot-Neptune desert, investigations that are key to uncovering the origin of this population.
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NASA through Caltech/JPL grant
RSA-1006130
RSA-1610091
NASA through TESS Guest Investigator Program
80NSSC19K1727
National Science Foundation (NSF)
AST-1824644
CONICYT/PFCHA-Doctorado Nacional, Chile
21140646
Heising-Simons Foundation
Hellman Faculty Fund
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT)
CONICYT FONDECYT
1201371
Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT)
Basal AFB-170002
NASA's Science Mission directorate