Infrared Secondary Eclipse Photometry of the Transiting Exoplanet HAT-P-1b

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009dps....41.4208t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #42.08

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We examine the secondary eclipse of the exoplanet HAT-P-1b using the IRAC instrument on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. This planet is close to the boundary between the pM and pL classes of hot Jupiters, which makes it an important test case for theoretical models of temperature inversions in the atmospheres of this type of gas giants. Our analysis shows secondary eclipse depths for HAT-P-1b, as a fraction of the stellar flux, to be: 0.075% +/- 0.008% (3.6 micron), 0.128% +/- 0.022% (4.5 micron), 0.183% +/- 0.031% (5.8 micron) and 0.230% +/- 0.034% (8.0 micron). These values can be produced, within errors, by a 1500K black body, or alternatively by a hot Jupiter with a small temperature inversion in its atmosphere. In both cases, the planet must radiate a significant amount of the energy received from the star through its day side, which suggests that little energy is redistributed through atmospheric circulation to be emitted through the night side of the planet. It has been suggested that this planet is inflated through tidal dissipation, based on its large radius and non-zero eccentricity allowed by the radial velocity data. By timing the secondary transit, we are able to determine that the orbit is very close to circular. The leading author was funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute SUIA program.

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