Search for Carbon Monoxide in the atmosphere of the Transiting Exoplanet HD189733b
arXiv:0903.3405 · doi:10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/478
Abstract
Water, methane and carbon-monoxide are expected to be among the most abundant molecules besides molecular hydrogen in the hot atmosphere of close-in EGPs. Transit observations in the mid-IR allow the atmospheric content of transiting planets to be determined. We present new primary transit observations of the hot-jupiter HD189733b, obtained simultaneously at 4.5 and 8 micron with IRAC instrument onboard Spitzer. Together with a new refined analysis of previous observations at 3.6 and 5.8 micron using the same instrument, we are able to derive the system parameters, including planet-to-star radius ratio, impact parameter, scale of the system, and central time of the transit from fits of the transit light curves at these four wavelengths. We measure the four planet-to-star radius ratios, to be (R_p/R_*)= 0.1545 +/- 0.0003, 0.1557 +/- 0.0003, 0.1547 +/- 0.0005, 0.1544 +/- 0.0004 at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 micron respectively. The high accuracy of the measurement allows the search for atmospheric molecular absorbers. Contrary to a previous analysis of the same dataset, our study is robust against systematics and reveals that water vapor absorption at 5.8 micron is not detected in this photometric dataset. Furthermore, in the band centered around 4.5 micron we find a hint of excess absorption with an apparent planetary radius Delta(R_p/R_*) = 0.00128 +/- 0.00056 larger (2.3 sigma) than the one measured simultaneously at 8 micron. This value is 4 sigma above what would be expected for an atmosphere where water vapor is the only absorbing species in the near infrared. This shows that an additional species absorbing around 4.5 micron could be present in the atmosphere. CO being a strong absorber at this wavelength is a possible candidate and this may suggest a large CO/H2O ratio between 5 and 60.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 11 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
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