Journal article
A comparison of spectroscopic methods for detecting the starlight scattered by transiting hot Jupiters, with an application to Subaru data for HD 209458b and HD 189733b
SV Langford, JSB Wyithe, EL Turner, EB Jenkins, N Narita, X Liu, Y Suto, T Yamada
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2011
Abstract
The measurement of the light scattered from extrasolar planets informs atmospheric and formation models. With the discovery of many hot Jupiter planets orbiting nearby stars, this motivates the development of robust methods of characterization from follow-up observations. In this paper, we discuss two methods for determining the planetary albedo in transiting systems. First, the most widely used method for measuring the light scattered by hot Jupiters is investigated for application for typical echelle spectra of a transiting planet system, showing that a detection requires high-signal-to-noise-ratio data of bright planets. Secondly, a new Fourier analysis method is also presented, which is ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
SVL acknowledges the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award, an Albert Shimmins Postgraduate Writing-Up Award, a Postgraduate Overseas Research Experience Scholarship, a Melbourne Abroad Traveling Scholarship and the hospitality of the Princeton University Observatory during two extended visits in 2007 and 2008.NN is supported by a Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for Research (PD: 20-8141).YS acknowledges the support from the Global Scholars Program of Princeton University. This work is partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (No.20340041) and by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program 'International Research Network for Dark Energy'.