JWST high-contrast spectroscopy with speckle modelling: Atmospheric retrievals of the T dwarf companion HD 19467 B

Abstract

High-contrast, medium-resolution spectroscopy with JWST can resolve molecular and isotopic features in cool substellar atmospheres, but for close-in companions the extracted spectra can be biased by wavelength-dependent residual stellar contamination. We assess the impact of residual speckles on atmospheric inference for the T dwarf companion HD 19467 B and compare the results to the field T dwarf 2MASS J0415-0935. We analyse JWST/NIRSpec G395H spectra ($2.87$--$5.2$$\mu$m; $R\sim 2700$) and perform Bayesian atmospheric retrievals with petitRADTRANS coupled to nested sampling using ultranest. We use a flexible, parameterised pressure-temperature profile with free, constant-with-altitude molecular abundances. For HD 19467 B we fit the PSF-subtracted spectrum with a linear model that includes the atmospheric model and a set of speckle spectra from the integral field unit. We detect H${}_2$O, CH${}_4$, CO, CO${}_2$, and NH${}_3$ in both atmospheres and measure carbon isotopic ratios from CO isotopologues, finding ${}^{12}$C/${}^{13}$C$=154_{-17}^{+19}$ for HD 19467 B and ${}^{12}$C/${}^{13}$C$=85\pm 5$ for 2MASS J0415-0935. Speckle contamination primarily affects the low-frequency spectral shape at $3.0$--$3.7$$\mu$m and can affect retrieved abundances if not accounted for. We obtain seemingly constrained posteriors for some additional species (e.g.\ SiO and H${}_2$S) in some cases, but treat these as tentative because cross-correlation does not yield significant detections; PH${}_3$ is not detected in either target. Joint fitting of the atmospheric spectrum and the speckle contamination enables native-resolution retrievals of the high-contrast companion HD 19467 B with JWST/NIRSpec without continuum subtraction. Over $2.87$--$5.2$$\mu$m, medium-resolution spectroscopy constrains elemental and isotopic composition; both objects exhibit near-solar metallicity and subsolar C/O ratios.

20 pages, 12 figures, accepted to A&A

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