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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 790, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/790/2/108
Keywords
planetary systems; planets and satellites: atmospheres; planets and satellites: individual (WASP-80b); stars: individual (WASP-80); techniques: photometric
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Funding
- Optical & Near-Infrared Astronomy Inter-University Cooperation Program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT)
- NAOJ Fellowship
- Inoue Science Research Award
- MEXT [25247026]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [25707012, 22000005]
- [25000465 25-183]
- [26-11515]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25707012, 24103003, 26103711, 23103005, 22000005, 25247026, 13J03183] Funding Source: KAKEN
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WASP-80b is a warm Jupiter transiting a bright late-K/early-M dwarf, providing a good opportunity to extend the atmospheric study of hot Jupiters toward the lower temperature regime. We report multi-band, multi-epoch transit observations of WASP-80b by using three ground-based telescopes covering from optical (g', R-c, and I-c bands) to near-infrared (NIR; J, H, and K-s bands) wavelengths. We observe 5 primary transits, each in 3 or 4 different bands simultaneously, obtaining 17 independent transit light curves. Combining them with results from previous works, we find that the observed transmission spectrum is largely consistent with both a solar abundance and thick cloud atmospheric models at a 1.7 sigma discrepancy level. On the other hand, we find a marginal spectral rise in the optical region compared to the NIR region at the 2.9 sigma level, which possibly indicates the existence of haze in the atmosphere. We simulate theoretical transmission spectra for a solar abundance but hazy atmosphere, finding that a model with equilibrium temperature of 600 K can explain the observed data well, having a discrepancy level of 1.0 sigma. We also search for transit timing variations, but find no timing excess larger than 50 s from a linear ephemeris. In addition, we conduct 43 day long photometric monitoring of the host star in the optical bands, finding no significant variation in the stellar brightness. Combined with the fact that no spot-crossing event is observed in the five transits, our results confirm previous findings that the host star appears quiet for spot activities, despite the indications of strong chromospheric activities.
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