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超级地球55 Cnc e的地基Transit观测

Ground-Based Transit Observations of the Super-Earth 55 Cnc e

E. J. W. de Mooij, M. Lopez-Morales, R. Karjalainen, M. Hrudkova, R. Jayawardhana

摘要:

我们报告的第一次地基探测的超地球系外行星55 Cnc e的浅凌日使用2米级望远镜。使用差示分光光度法,我们在2013年和2014年分别观测到一次凌日,平均光谱分辨率为~700和~250,跨越了约翰逊BVR光度带。我们从2013年的观测中发现白光行星与恒星的半径比为0.0190 -0.0027+0.0023,从2014年的观测中发现为0.0200 -0.0018+0.0017。这两个数据集组合后的半径比为0.0198 -0.0014+0.0013。这些值都与以前的空间为基础的结果。数据中的闪烁噪声使我们无法对扩展的富氢大气的存在进行严格的限制。尽管如此,我们对55 Cnc e的探测表明,地面上的中型望远镜将能够对凌日系外行星调查卫星(TESS)在明亮恒星周围发现的超级地球候选者进行常规后续观测。我们预计,通过制定观测战略以尽量减少闪烁噪声,也将有可能对这些行星的大气特征施加限制。

英文摘要:

We report the first ground-based detections of the shallow transit of the super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cnc e using a 2-meter-class telescope. Using differential spectrophotometry, we observed one transit in 2013 and another in 2014, with average spectral resolutions of ~700 and ~250, spanning the Johnson BVR photometric bands. We find a white-light planet-to-star radius ratio of 0.0190 -0.0027+0.0023 from the 2013 observations and 0.0200 -0.0018+0.0017 from the 2014 observations. The two datasets combined results in a radius ratio of 0.0198 -0.0014+0.0013. These values are all in agreement with previous space-based results. Scintillation noise in the data prevents us from placing strong constraints on the presence of an extended hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Nevertheless, our detections of 55 Cnc e in transit demonstrate that moderate-size telescopes on the ground will be capable of routine follow-up observations of super-Earth candidates discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) around bright stars. We expect it will be also possible to place constraints on the atmospheric characteristics of those planets by devising observational strategies to minimize scintillation noise.

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