Relative abundance constraints from high-resolution optical transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b, and a fast model-filtering technique for accelerating retrievals

Abstract

High-resolution Doppler-resolved spectroscopy has presented new opportunities for studying the atmospheres of exoplanets. While the 'classical' cross-correlation approach has proven to be efficient at finding atmospheric species, it is unable to perform direct atmospheric retrievals. Recent work has shown that retrievals are possible using a direct likelihood evaluation or likelihood 'mappings'. The unique aspect of high-resolution retrievals is that the data-processing methods required to remove the stellar and telluric lines also distort the underlying exoplanet's signal and therefore the forward model must be pre-processed to match this filtering. This was the key remaining limitation in our previously published framework. This paper directly addresses this by introducing a simple and fast model-filtering technique that can replicate the processing performed by algorithms such as SysRem and PCA. This enables retrievals to be performed without having to perform expensive injection and pre-processing steps for every model. We show that we can reliably constrain quantitative measures of the atmosphere from transmission spectra including the temperature-pressure profile, relative abundances, planetary velocities and rotational broadening parameters. Finally, we demonstrate our framework using UVES transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b. We constrain the temperature-pressure profile and relative abundances of Fe, Cr, and V to be ${\log }_{10}({\chi }_{\mathrm{Fe}}/{\chi }_{\mathrm{Cr}})$=1.66$\pm$0.28, ${\log }_{10}({\chi }_{\mathrm{Fe}}/{\chi }_{\mathrm{V}})$=3.78$\pm$0.29 and ${\log }_{10}({\chi }_{\mathrm{Fe}}/{\chi }_{\mathrm{Mg}})$=-1.26$\pm$0.60. The relative abundances are consistent with solar values, with the exception of Fe/Mg, where the large Mg abundance is probably explained by the escaping atmosphere of WASP-121b that is not accounted for in our atmospheric model.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in MNRAS. 22 pages, 14 figures

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