Colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams for Hot Jupiters

Abstract

We use ground-based and space-based eclipse measurements for the near-infrared ($JHKs$) bands and Spitzer 3.6 $\mu$m and 4.5 $\mu$m bands to construct colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams for hot Jupiters. We compare the results with previous observations of substellar objects and find that hot Jupiters, when corrected for their inflated radii, lie near the black body line and in the same region of the colour magnitude diagrams as brown dwarfs, including low gravity dwarfs that have been previously suggested as exoplanet analogs. We use theoretical emission spectra to investigate the effects of different metallicity, C/O ratios and temperatures on the IR colours. In general we find that while differences in C/O ratio and metallicity do correspond to different locations on these diagrams, the measurement errors are too large to use this method to put strong constraints on the composition of individual objects. However, as a class hot Jupiters cluster around the location expected for solar metallicity and C/O ratio.

12 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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