Obliquity measurement and atmospheric characterisation of the WASP-74 planetary system

Luque, R.; Casasayas-Barris, N.; Parviainen, H.; Chen, G.; Pallé, E.; Livingston, J.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Crouzet, N.; Esparza-Borges, E.; Fukui, A.; Hidalgo, D.; Kawashima, Y.; Kawauchi, K.; Klagyivik, P.; Kurita, S.; Kusakabe, N.; de Leon, J. P.; Madrigal-Aguado, A.; Montañés-Rodríguez, P.; Mori, M.; Murgas, F.; Narita, N.; Nishiumi, T.; Nowak, G.; Oshagh, M.; Sánchez-Benavente, M.; Stangret, M.; Tamura, M.; Terada, Y.; Watanabe, N.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2020
Number of authors
30
IAC number of authors
15
Citations
14
Refereed citations
14
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We present new transit observations of the hot Jupiter WASP-74 b (Teq ~ 1860 K) using the high-resolution spectrograph HARPS-N and the multi-colour simultaneous imager MuSCAT2. We refined the orbital properties of the planet and its host star and measured its obliquity for the first time. The measured sky-projected angle between the stellar spin-axis and the orbital axis of the planet is compatible with an orbit that is well-aligned with the equator of the host star (λ = 0.77 ± 0.99 deg). We are not able to detect any absorption feature of Hα or any other atomic spectral features in the high-resolution transmission spectra of this source owing to low S/N at the line cores. Despite previous claims regarding the presence of strong optical absorbers such as TiO and VO gases in the atmosphere of WASP-74 b, new ground-based photometry combined with a reanalysis of previously reported observations from the literature show a slope in the low-resolution transmission spectrum that is steeper than expected from Rayleigh scattering alone.

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