Tregloan-Reed, J, Southworth, J, Mancini, L, Mollière, P, Ciceri, S, Bruni, I, Ricci, D, Ayala-Loera, C and Henning, T (2018) Possible detection of a bimodal cloud distribution in the atmosphere of HAT-P-32 A b from multiband photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474 (4). 5485 - 5499. ISSN 1365-2966

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Abstract

We present high-precision photometry of eight separate transit events in the HAT-P-32 planetary system. One transit event was observed simultaneously by two telescopes of which one obtained a simultaneous multiband light curve in three optical bands, giving a total of 11 transit light curves. Due to the filter selection and in conjunction with using the defocused photometry technique, we were able to obtain an extremely high-precision, ground-based transit in the u band (350 nm), with an rms scatter of ≈1 mmag. All 11 transits were modelled using PRISM and GEMC, and the physical properties of the system calculated. We find the mass and radius of the host star to be 1.182 ± 0.041 M⊙ and 1.225 ± 0.015 R⊙, respectively. For the planet, we find a mass of 0.80 ± 0.14 MJup, a radius of 1.807 ± 0.022 RJup, and a density of 0.126 ± 0.023 ρJup. These values are consistent with those found in the literature. We also obtain a new orbital ephemeris for the system T0 = BJD/TDB 2 454 420.447187(96) +  2.15000800(10) × E. We measured the transmission spectrum of HAT-P-32 A b and compared it to theoretical transmission spectra. Our results indicate a bimodal cloud particle distribution consisting of Rayleigh-like haze and grey absorbing cloud particles within the atmosphere of HAT-P-32 A b.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords: techniques, photometric, planets and satellites, atmospheres, planets and satellites, gaseous planets, stars, fundamental parameters, individual, HAT-P-32 A, planetary systems
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy > QB460 Astrophysics
Divisions: Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2018 16:07
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2019 10:45
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/4517

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