2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
The atomic C/O ratio of KELT-9b
Stefan Pelletier, Nicholas W. Borsato, Jacob L. Bean +12
The carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio of a giant planet's atmosphere has long been theorised to hold compositional information that can be traced back to its formation history. Typicall…
astro-ph.EP2026
Sorting a mess I: Addressing velocity-axis correlation of cross-correlation functions. A census of atomic and ionised species in KELT-9b's atmosphere
Nicholas W. Borsato, Brian Thorsbro, Jens Hoeijmakers +3
Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are the most extreme class of close-in gas giants. We combine 13 transit observations of KELT-9b from six high-resolution spectrographs spanning 316-960 n…