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Modeling the Transmission Spectra of WASP-31b

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

J. Chouqar
Affiliation:
Oukameden Observatory LPHEACadi Ayyad UniversityBP 2390 MarrakechMorocco email: [email protected]
M. L. Morales
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
A. Daassou
Affiliation:
Oukameden Observatory LPHEACadi Ayyad UniversityBP 2390 MarrakechMorocco email: [email protected]
A. Jabiri
Affiliation:
Oukameden Observatory LPHEACadi Ayyad UniversityBP 2390 MarrakechMorocco email: [email protected]
Z. Benkhaldoun
Affiliation:
Oukameden Observatory LPHEACadi Ayyad UniversityBP 2390 MarrakechMorocco email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Wasp-31b is a planet of 0.48 Jupiter masses and 1.55 Jupiter radii, with orbital period of 3.4-days around a metal-poor, late-F-type, V = 11.7 dwarf star. The planet has a large atmospheric scale height that makes it a good target for transmission spectroscopy. Sing et al (2014) presented an optical and near-IR transmission spectrum of the atmosphere of WASP-31b obtained with the HST and show the presence of a strong potassium line. In contrast, Gibson et al. (2017) reports a spectrum of the atmosphere of WASP-31b, obtained with the FORS2 instrument on the VLT and find that there is no strong potassium line. Here, we take those two datasets and, using models, we try to find a case where both solutions are correct by considering different cloud scenarios.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020 

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