Ground-based detection of thermal emission from the exoplanet WASP-19b

Details Ground-based detection of thermal emission from the exoplanet WASP-19b Ground-based detection of thermal emission from the exoplanet WASP-19b

2010-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/1002.1996v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

4 Figures, 1 Table, letter, accepted in MNRAS

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We present an occultation of the newly discovered hot Jupiter system WASP-19, observed with the HAWK-I instrument on the VLT, in order to measure thermal emission from the planet's dayside at ~2 um. The light curve was analysed using a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo method to find the eclipse depth and the central transit time. The transit depth was found to be 0.366+-0.072 %, corresponding to a brightness temperature of 2540+-180 K. This is significantly higher than the calculated (zero-albedo) equilibrium temperature, and indicates that the planet shows poor redistribution of heat to the night side, consistent with models of highly irradiated planets. Further observations are needed to confirm the existence of a temperature inversion, and possibly molecular emission lines. The central eclipse time was found to be consistent with a circular orbit.

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