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2020MNRAS.496.1638M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 496, 1638-1644 (2020/August-1)

Confirmation of water emission in the dayside spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b.

MIKAL-EVANS T., SING D.K., KATARIA T., WAKEFORD H.R., MAYNE N.J., LEWIS N.K., BARSTOW J.K. and SPAKE J.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present four new secondary eclipse observations for the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b acquired using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3. The eclipse depth is measured to a median precision of 60 ppm across 28 spectroscopic channels spanning the 1.12-1.64 µm wavelength range. This is a considerable improvement to the 90 ppm precision we achieved previously for a single eclipse observation using the same observing set-up. Combining these data with those reported at other wavelengths, a blackbody spectrum for WASP-121b is ruled out at >6σ confidence and we confirm the interpretation of previous retrieval analyses that found the data are best explained by a dayside thermal inversion. The updated spectrum clearly resolves the water emission band at 1.3-1.6 µm, with higher signal-to-noise than before. It also fails to reproduce a bump in the spectrum at 1.25 µm derived from the first eclipse observation, which had tentatively been attributed to VO emission. We conclude that the latter was either a statistical fluctuation or a systematic artefact specific to the first eclipse data set.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): techniques: spectroscopic - planets and satellites: atmospheres

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