Detection and Bulk Properties of the HR 8799 Planets with High Resolution Spectroscopy
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/ Authors
Jason J. Wang, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Evan Morris, Jacques-Robert Delorme, Nemanja Jovanovic, Jacklyn Pezzato, Daniel Echeverri, Luke Finnerty, Callie Hood, J. J. Zanazzi
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Marta L. Bryan, Charlotte Z. Bond, Sylvain Cetre, Emily C. Martin, Dimitri Mawet, Andy Skemer, Ashley Baker, Jerry W. Xuan, J. Kent Wallace, Ji Wang, Randall Bartos, Geoffrey A. Blake, Andy Boden, Cam Buzard, Benjamin Calvin, Mark Chun, Greg Doppmann, Trent J. Dupuy, Gaspard Duchêne, Y. Katherina Feng, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Fortney, Richard S. Freedman
/ Abstract
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), we obtained high-resolution (R$\sim$35,000) $K$-band spectra of the four planets orbiting HR 8799. We clearly detected \water{} and CO in the atmospheres of HR 8799 c, d, and e, and tentatively detected a combination of CO and \water{} in b. These are the most challenging directly imaged exoplanets that have been observed at high spectral resolution to date when considering both their angular separations and flux ratios. We developed a forward modeling framework that allows us to jointly fit the spectra of the planets and the diffracted starlight simultaneously in a likelihood-based approach and obtained posterior probabilities on their effective temperatures, surface gravities, radial velocities, and spins. We measured $v\sin(i)$ values of $10.1^{+2.8}_{-2.7}$~km/s for HR 8799 d and $15.0^{+2.3}_{-2.6}$~km/s for HR 8799 e, and placed an upper limit of $< 14$~km/s of HR 8799 c. Under two different assumptions of their obliquities, we found tentative evidence that rotation velocity is anti-correlated with companion mass, which could indicate that magnetic braking with a circumplanetary disk at early times is less efficient at spinning down lower mass planets.