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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 164, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac6c01
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- European Research Council under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [758892]
- European Unions Horizon 2020 COMPET program [776403]
- UK Space Agency and Science and Technology Funding Council [ST/K502406/1, ST/P000282/1, ST/P002153/1, ST/S002634/1, ST/T001836/1, ST/V003380/1, ST/W00254X/1]
- Ile-de-France Region
- Horizon 2020 innovation framework program [945298]
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This study presents the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-17 b, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, revealing the atmospheric composition and signatures of water, aluminum oxide, and titanium hydride. However, incomplete spectral data restrict the accurate characterization of the atmospheric limb of WASP-17 b.
We present the transmission spectrum of the inflated hot Jupiter WASP-17 b, observed with the STIS and WFC3 instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing for a continuous wavelength coverage from similar to 0.4 to similar to 1.7 mu m. Observations taken with IRAC channels 1 and 2 on the Spitzer Space Telescope are also included, adding photometric measurements at 3.6 and 4.5 mu m. HST spectral data were analyzed with Iraclis, a pipeline specialized in the reduction of STIS and WFC3 transit and eclipse observations. Spitzer photometric observations were reduced with the TLCD-LSTM method, utilizing recurrent neural networks. The outcome of our reduction produces incompatible results between STIS visit 1 and visit 2, which leads us to consider two scenarios for G430L. Additionally, by modeling the WFC3 data alone, we can extract atmospheric information without having to deal with the contrasting STIS data sets. We run separate retrievals on the three spectral scenarios with the aid of TauREx 3, a fully Bayesian retrieval framework. We find that, independently of the data considered, the exoplanet atmosphere displays strong water signatures and, potentially, the presence of aluminum oxide and titanium hydride. A retrieval that includes an extreme photospheric activity of the host star is the preferred model, but we recognize that such a scenario is unlikely for an F6-type star. Due to the incompleteness of all STIS spectral light curves, only further observations with this instrument would allow us to properly constrain the atmospheric limb of WASP-17 b, before the James Webb Space Telescope or Ariel will come online.
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