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Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b
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(2022) Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b. Nature Astronomy, 6 . pp. 449-457. doi:10.1038/s41550-021-01581-z ISSN 2397-3366.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01581-z
Abstract
The temperature of an atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, unless a shortwave absorber that causes a temperature inversion exists1. Ozone plays this role in the Earth’s atmosphere. In the atmospheres of highly irradiated exoplanets, the shortwave absorbers are predicted to be titanium oxide (TiO) and vanadium oxide (VO)2. Detections of TiO and VO have been claimed using both low-3,4,5,6 and high-7 spectral-resolution observations, but subsequent observations have failed to confirm these claims8,9,10 or overturned them11,12,13. Here we report the unambiguous detection of TiO in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b14 using high-resolution transmission spectroscopy. This detection is based on applying the cross-correlation technique15 to many spectral lines of TiO from 460 to 690 nm. Moreover, we report detections of metals, including neutral and singly ionized iron and titanium, as well as chromium, magnesium, vanadium and manganese (Fe, Fe+, Ti, Ti+, Cr, Mg, V, Mn). The line positions of the detected species differ, which we interpret as a consequence of spatial gradients in their chemical abundances, such that they exist in different regions or dynamical regimes. This is direct observational evidence for the three-dimensional thermochemical stratification of an exoplanet atmosphere derived from high-resolution ground-based spectroscopy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Astronomy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2397-3366 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 449-457 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41550-021-01581-z | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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