Detection and Bulk Properties of the HR 8799 Planets with High-resolution Spectroscopy
- Wang, J.J.
- Ruffio, J.-B.
- Morris, E.
- Delorme, J.-R.
- Jovanovic, N.
- Pezzato, J.
- Echeverri, D.
- Finnerty, L.
- Hood, C.
- Zanazzi, J.J.
- Bryan, M.L.
- Bond, C.Z.
- Cetre, S.
- Martin, E.C.
- Mawet, D.
- Skemer, A.
- Baker, A.
- Xuan, J.W.
- Wallace, J.K.
- Wang, J.
- Bartos, R.
- Blake, G.A.
- Boden, A.
- Buzard, C.
- Calvin, B.
- Chun, M.
- Doppmann, G.
- Dupuy, T.J.
- Duch ne, G.
- Feng, Y.K.
- Fitzgerald, M.P.
- Fortney, J.
- Freedman, R.S.
- Knutson, H.
- Konopacky, Q.
- Lilley, S.
- Liu, M.C.
- Lopez, R.
- Lupu, R.
- Marley, M.S.
- Meshkat, T.
- Miles, B.
- Millar-Blanchaer, M.
- Ragland, S.
- Roy, A.
- Ruane, G.
- Sappey, B.
- Schofield, T.
- Weiss, L.
- Wetherell, E.
- Wizinowich, P.
- Ygouf, M.
DOIAbstract
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer, we obtained high-resolution (R ∼ 35,000) K-band spectra of the four planets orbiting HR 8799. We clearly detected H2O and CO in the atmospheres of HR 8799 c, d, and e, and tentatively detected a combination of CO and H2O in b. These are the most challenging directly imaged exoplanets that have been observed at high spectral resolution to date when considering both their angular separations and flux ratios. We developed a forward-modeling framework that allows us to jointly fit the spectra of the planets and the diffracted starlight simultaneously in a likelihood-based approach and obtained posterior probabilities on their effective temperatures, surface gravities, radial velocities, and spins....
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