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HST PanCET Program: A Cloudy Atmosphere for the Promising JWST Target WASP-101b
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Wakeford, H. R.Stevenson, K. B.
Lewis, N. K.
Sing, D. K.
López-Morales, M.
Marley, M.
Kataria, T.
Mandell, A.
Ballester, G. E.
Barstow, J.
Ben-Jaffel, L.
Bourrier, V.
Buchhave, Lars A.
Ehrenreich, David
Evans, T.
García Muñoz, A.
Henry, G.
Knutson, H.
Lavvas, P.
Lecavelier des Etangs, A.
Nikolov, Nikolay
Sanz-Forcada, J.
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Univ Arizona, Dept Planetary SciUniv Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
Issue Date
2017-01-20Keywords
planets and satellites: atmospheresplanets and satellites: individual (WASP-101b)
techniques: spectroscopic
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HST PanCET Program: A Cloudy Atmosphere for the Promising JWST Target WASP-101b 2017, 835 (1):L12 The Astrophysical JournalJournal
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We present results from the first observations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Panchromatic Comparative Exoplanet Treasury program for WASP-101b, a highly inflated hot Jupiter and one of the community targets proposed for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Science (ERS) program. From a single HST Wide Field Camera 3 observation, we find that the near-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-101b contains no significant H2O absorption features and we rule out a clear atmosphere at 13 sigma. Therefore, WASP-101b is not an optimum target for a JWST ERS program aimed at observing strong molecular transmission features. We compare WASP-101b to the well-studied and nearly identical hot Jupiter WASP-31b. These twin planets show similar temperature-pressure profiles and atmospheric features in the near-infrared. We suggest exoplanets in the same parameter space as WASP-101b and WASP-31b will also exhibit cloudy transmission spectral features. For future HST exoplanet studies, our analysis also suggests that a lower count limit needs to be exceeded per pixel on the detector in order to avoid unwanted instrumental systematics.ISSN
2041-8213Version
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NASA [NAS 5-26555]; NASA Postdoctoral Program at Goddard Space Flight Center; European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme/ERC [336792]; Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship; National Centre for Competence in Research "PlanetS" - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); CNES (France) under project PACES; [GO-14767]Additional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/2041-8205/835/i=1/a=L12?key=crossref.52b2019220c4a7c110a517df8b5eff1cae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/2041-8213/835/1/L12