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Titolo: | Cloud Atlas: Hubble Space Telescope Near-infrared Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs, Planetary-mass Companions, and Hot Jupiters | Autori: | Manjavacas, Elena Apai, Dániel Zhou, Yifan Lew, Ben W. P. Schneider, Glenn Metchev, Stan Miles-Páez, Paulo A. Radigan, Jacqueline Marley, Mark S. Cowan, Nicolas Karalidi, Theodora Burgasser, Adam J. BEDIN, Luigi Lowrance, Patrick J. Kauffmann, Parker |
Data pubblicazione: | 2019 | Rivista: | THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL | Numero: | 157 | Fascicolo: | 3 | Da pagina:: | 101 | Abstract: | Bayesian atmospheric retrieval tools can place constraints on the properties of brown dwarfs' and hot Jupiters' atmospheres. To fully exploit these methods, high signal-to-noise spectral libraries with well-understood uncertainties are essential. We present a high signal-to-noise spectral library (1.10-1.69 μm) of the thermal emission of 76 brown dwarfs and hot Jupiters. All our spectra have been acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument and its G141 grism. The near-infrared spectral types of these objects range from L4 to Y1. Eight of our targets have estimated masses below the deuterium-burning limit. We analyze the database to identify peculiar objects and/or multiple systems, concluding that this sample includes two very-low-surface-gravity objects and five intermediate-surface-gravity objects. In addition, spectral indices designed to search for composite-atmosphere brown dwarfs indicate that eight objects in our sample are strong candidates to have such atmospheres. None of these objects are overluminous, so their composite atmospheres are unlikely to be companion-induced artifacts. Five of the eight confirmed candidates have been reported as photometrically variable, suggesting that composite atmospheric indices are useful in identifying brown dwarfs with strongly heterogeneous cloud covers. We compare hot Jupiters and brown dwarfs in a near-infrared color-magnitude diagram. We confirm that the coldest hot Jupiters in our sample have spectra similar to mid-L dwarfs, and the hottest hot Jupiters have spectra similar to those of M-dwarfs. Our sample provides a uniform data set of a broad range of ultracool atmospheres, allowing large-scale comparative studies and providing an HST legacy spectral library. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/34677 | URL: | https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85063491930 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf88f |
ISSN: | 0004-6256 | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/aaf88f | Bibcode ADS: | 2019AJ....157..101M | Fulltext: | open |
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