Burdanov, A Y; Lederer, S M; Gillon, M; Delrez, L; Ducrot, E; de Wit, J; Jehin, E; Triaud, A H M J; Lidman, C; Spitler, L; Demory, B.-O.; Queloz, D; Van Grootel, V (2019). Ground-based follow-up observations of TRAPPIST-1 transits in the near-infrared. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(2), pp. 1634-1652. Oxford University Press 10.1093/mnras/stz1375
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The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system is a favorable target for the atmospheric characterization of temperate earth-sized exoplanets by means of transmission spectroscopy with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A possible obstacle to this technique could come from the photospheric heterogeneity of the host star that could affect planetary signatures in the transit transmission spectra. To constrain further this possibility, we gathered an extensive photometric data set of 25 TRAPPIST-1 transits observed in the near-IR J band (1.2 μm) with the UKIRT and the AAT, and in the NB2090 band (2.1 μm) with the VLT during the period 2015-2018. In our analysis of these data, we used a special strategy aiming to ensure uniformity in our measurements and robustness in our conclusions. We reach a photometric precision of ∼0.003 (RMS of the residuals), and we detect no significant temporal variations of transit depths of TRAPPIST-1 b, c, e, and g over the period of three years. The few transit depths measured for planets d and f hint towards some level of variability, but more measurements will be required for confirmation. Our depth measurements for planets b and c disagree with the stellar contamination spectra originating from the possible existence of bright spots of temperature 4500 K. We report updated transmission spectra for the six inner planets of the system which are globally flat for planets b and g and some structures are seen for planets c, d, e, and f.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Space Research and Planetary Sciences 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute 10 Strategic Research Centers > Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > NCCR PlanetS |
UniBE Contributor: |
Demory, Brice-Olivier Denys |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 520 Astronomy 500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
0035-8711 |
Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Danielle Zemp |
Date Deposited: |
14 Apr 2020 09:36 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:33 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1093/mnras/stz1375 |
ArXiv ID: |
1905.06035v1 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.142630 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/142630 |
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