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2025A&A...704A.318K - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 704A318 (2025/12-1)
The ExoGRAVITY survey: A K-band spectral library of giant exoplanet and brown dwarf companions.
KAMMERER J., WINTERHALDER T.O., LACOUR S., STOLKER T., MARLEAU G.-D., BALMER W.O., MOORE A.F., PISCARRETA L., TOCI C., MERAND A., NOWAK M., RICKMAN E.L., PUEYO L., POURRE N., NASEDKIN E., WANG J.J., BOURDAROT G., EISENHAUER F., HENNING T., GARCIA LOPEZ R., VAN DISHOECK E.F., FORVEILLE T., MONNIER J.D., ABUTER R., AMORIM A., BENISTY M., BERGER J.-P., BEUST H., BLUNT S., BOCCALETTI A., BONNEFOY M., BONNET H., BORDONI M.S., BRANDNER W., CANTALLOUBE F., CASELLI P., CEVA W., CHARNAY B., CHAUVIN G., CHAVEZ A., CHOMEZ A., CHOQUET E., CHRISTIAENS V., CLENET Y., COUDE DU FORESTO V., CRIDLAND A., DAVIES R., DEMBET R., DEXTER J., DRESCHER A., DUVERT G., ECKART A., FONTANIVE C., FORSTER SCHREIBER N.M., GARCIA P., GENDRON E., GENZEL R., GILLESSEN S., GIRARD J.H., GRANT S., HAGELBERG J., HAUBOIS X., HEISSEL G., HINKLEY S., HIPPLER S., HOULLE M., HUBERT Z., JOCOU L., KEPPLER M., KERVELLA P., KREIDBERG L., KURTOVIC N.T., LAGRANGE A.-M., LAPEYRERE V., LE BOUQUIN J.-B., LUTZ D., MAIRE A.-L., MANG F., MATTHEWS E.C., MOLLIERE P., MORDASINI C., MOUILLET D., OTT T., OTTEN G.P.P.L., PALADINI C., PAUMARD T., PERRAUT K., PERRIN G., PFUHL O., RIBEIRO D.C., RUSTAMKULOV Z., SEGRANSAN D., SHANGGUAN J., SHIMIZU T., SAMLAND M., SING D., STADLER J., STRAUB O., STRAUBMEIER C., STURM E., TACCONI L.J., UDRY S., VIGAN A., VINCENT F., VON FELLENBERG S.D., WIDMANN F., WOILLEZ J. and YAZICI S.
Abstract (from CDS):
Aims. Here we compile a homogeneous library of all exoplanet and brown dwarf K-band spectra observed by GRAVITY thus far. This ExoGRAVITY Spectral Library is made publicly available online.
Methods. We re-reduced all the available GRAVITY dual-field high-contrast data in a uniform and highly automated way and, where companions were detected, extracted their ∼2.0-2.4 μm K-band contrast spectra. We then derived stellar model atmospheres for all the employed flux references (either the host star or the swap calibrator), which we used to convert the companion contrast into companion flux spectra. Solely from the resulting GRAVITY K-band flux spectra, we extracted spectral types, spectral indices, and bulk physical properties for all the companions. Finally, and with the help of age constraints from the literature, we also derived isochronal masses for most of the companions using evolutionary models.
Results. The resulting library contains R ∼ 500 GRAVITY K-band spectra of 39 substellar companions from late M to late T spectral types, including the entire L-T transition. Throughout this transition, a shift from CO-dominated late M- and L-type dwarfs to CH4-dominated T-type dwarfs can be observed in the K-band. The GRAVITY spectra alone constrain the objects' bolometric luminosity to typically within ±0.15 dex. The derived isochronal masses agree with dynamical masses from the literature where available, except for HD 4113 c for which we confirm its previously reported potential underluminosity.
Conclusions. Medium-resolution spectroscopy of substellar companions with GRAVITY provides insight into the carbon chemistry and the cloudiness of these objects' atmospheres. It also constrains these objects' bolometric luminosities, which can yield measurements of their formation entropy if combined with dynamical masses, for instance from Gaia and GRAVITY astrometry.
Abstract Copyright: © The Authors 2026
Journal keyword(s): techniques: high angular resolution - techniques: interferometric - planets and satellites: atmospheres - planets and satellites: formation - brown dwarfs
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