The ESPRESSO transmission spectrum of HD189733b : Extracting the planetary sodium and lithium signatures amid stellar contamination

Abstract

While transmission spectroscopy has allowed us to detect many atomic and molecular species in exoplanet atmospheres, the improvement in resolution and signal-to-noise ratio enabled us to become sensitive to planet-occulted line distortions (POLDs) in the spectrum that are induced by center-to-limb variations and the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. POLDs can bias the interpretation of the transmission spectrum, and it is difficult to correct for them with stellar models. We analyzed two ESPRESSO transits (R $\sim$ 140000) of the archetypal hot Jupiter HD189733b. The transmission spectrum of this aligned system is heavily affected by POLDs, stellar activity, and instrumental effects. It is therefore a challenging study case of how to account for these effects when the planetary signal is retrieved from chemical species through transmission spectroscopy. We confirm the previous detections of the sodium doublet signature in the upper atmosphere of HD189733b. When we accounted for POLDs and isolated the planetary signal from uncorrected stellar residuals, we found a shallower (0.432 $\pm$ 0.027 %) and more strongly blueshifted (-7.97 $\pm$ 0.28 km/s) signal. We attempted to reinterpret the other high-resolution sodium studies of this system in light of our results. We suggest that the POLDs and stellar activity are insufficiently corrected for in all analyses, including ours. We also detected a planetary lithium signature of 0.102 $\pm$ 0.016 % (6.4$\sigma$) at a blueshift of -2.4 $\pm$ 1.8 km/s.

arXiv comment17 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables (+ 4 pages, 5 figures in Appendix); Accepted for publication in A&A. Abstract abridged

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