Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of Ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b
- 1Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Vía Láctea s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, (mstangret@iac.es)
- 2Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200 San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain
- 3Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- 4Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
Thanks to the different Doppler velocities of the Earth, the host star and the planet using high-resolution spectroscopy we are able to detect and characterise exoplanetary atmospheres. Exoplanetary signal is buried in the residual noise, however by preforming cross-correlation of atmospheric transmission model and hundreds of atmospheric lines the signal can be increase. Studying the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters, objects with the temperature higher than 2200K which orbit close to their host stars, gives us great laboratory to study chemistry of the exoplanets. MASCARA-2b also known as KELT-20b with the temperature of 2230 K is a perfect example of ultra hot Jupiter. We studied this object using three transit observations obtained with HARPS-North. Using cross-correlation method we detected strong absorption of Fe I and FeII, which agrees with theoretical models. Additionally, because of the fast rotation of the star, the crosscorrelation residuals show strong Rossiter-MacLaughlin effect.
How to cite: Stangret, M., Casasayas-Barris, N., Palle, E., Yan, F., Sánchez-López, A., and López-Puertas, M.: Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of Ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b, Europlanet Science Congress 2020, online, 21 Sep–9 Oct 2020, EPSC2020-1089, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-1089, 2020.