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2024MNRAS.530.2749A - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 530, 2749-2759 (2024/May-3)

Atmospheric characterization and tighter constraints on the orbital misalignment of WASP-94 A b with HARPS.

AHRER E., SEIDEL J.V., DOYLE L., GANDHI S., PRINOTH B., CEGLA H.M., McDONALD C.H., ASTUDILLO-DEFRU N., AYACHE E., NEALON R., VERAS D., WHEATLEY P.J. and EHRENREICH D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present high spectral resolution observations of the hot Jupiter WASP-94 A b using the HARPS instrument on ESO's 3.6-m telescope in La Silla, Chile. We probed for Na absorption in its atmosphere as well as constrained the previously reported misaligned retrograde orbit using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Additionally, we undertook a combined atmospheric retrieval analysis with previously published low-resolution data. We confirm the retrograde orbit as well as constrain the orbital misalignment with our measurement of a projected spin-orbit obliquity of λ = 123.0 ± 3.0°. We find a tentative detection of Na absorption in the atmosphere of WASP-94 A b, independent of the treatment of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in our analysis (3.6σ and 4.4σ). We combine our HARPS high-resolution data with low-resolution data from the literature and find that while the posterior distribution of the Na abundance results in a tighter constraint than using a single data set, the detection significance does not improve (3.2σ), which we attribute to degeneracies between the low- and high-resolution data.

Abstract Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): methods: observational - techniques: spectroscopic - exoplanets - planets and satellites: atmospheres - planets and satellites: individual: WASP-94 A b

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