ACCESS: Tentative detection of HO in the ground-based optical transmission spectrum of the low-density hot Saturn HATS-5b
arXiv:2209.00637 · doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac8b74
Abstract
We present a precise ground-based optical transmission spectrum of the hot-Saturn HATS-5b ( K), obtained as part of the ACCESS survey with the IMACS multi-object spectrograph mounted on the Magellan/Baade Telescope. Our spectra cover the 0.5 to 0.9 micron region, and are the product of 5 individual transits observed between 2014 and 2018. We introduce the usage of additional second-order light in our analyses which allows us to extract an "extra" transit light curve, improving the overall precision of our combined transit spectrum. We find that the favored atmospheric model for this transmission spectrum is a solar-metallicity atmosphere with sub-solar C/O, whose features are dominated by HO and with a depleted abundance of Na and K. If confirmed, this would point to a "clear" atmosphere at the pressure levels probed by transmission spectroscopy for HATS-5b. Our best-fit atmospheric model predicts a rich near-IR spectrum, which makes this exoplanet an excellent target for future follow-up observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, both to confirm this HO detection and to superbly constrain the atmosphere's parameters.
arXiv comment31 pages, 16 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
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