Issue |
A&A
Volume 615, July 2018
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Article Number | A86 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527071 | |
Published online | 18 July 2018 |
Thermal emission of WASP-48b in the Ks-band★
1
Astrophysics Group, Keele University,
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG,
UK
e-mail: b.j.clark@keele.ac.uk
2
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge,
Madingley Road,
Cambridge
CB3 0HA,
UK
3
N. Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Bartycka 18,
00-716
Warsaw,
Poland
4
Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center,
Rutherfordstrasse 2,
12489
Berlin,
Germany
5
SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
Received:
28
July
2015
Accepted:
22
March
2018
We report a detection of thermal emission from the hot Jupiter WASP-48b in the Ks-band. We used the Wide-field Infra-red Camera on the 3.6-m Canada-France Hawaii Telescope to observe an occultation of the planet by its host star. From the resulting occultation lightcurve we find a planet-to-star contrast ratio in the Ks-band of 0.136 ± 0.014%, in agreement with the value of 0.109 ± 0.027% previously determined. We fit the two Ks-band occultation lightcurves simultaneously with occultation lightcurves in the H-band and the Spitzer 3.6- and 4.5-μm bandpasses, radial velocity data, and transit lightcurves. From this, we revise the system parameters and construct the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the dayside atmosphere. By comparing the SED with atmospheric models, we find that both models with and without a thermal inversion are consistent with the data. We find the planet’s orbit to be consistent with circular (e < 0.072 at 3σ).
Key words: methods: data analysis / techniques: photometric / planets and satellites: individual: WASP-48b / stars: individual: WASP-48 / planets and satellites: atmospheres
Tables of light curve data are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/615/A86
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