HST/WFC3 light curve in LTT 144 system Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Pass E.K.
  2. Winters J.G.
  3. Charbonneau D.
  4. Balkanski A.
  5. Lewis N.
  6. Lally M.,Bean J.L.
  7. Cloutier R.
  8. Eastman J.D.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Previous studies of the exoplanet LTT1445Ac concluded that the light curve from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was consistent with both grazing and nongrazing geometries. As a result, the radius and hence density of the planet remained unknown. To resolve this ambiguity, we observed the LTT1445 system for six spacecraft orbits of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) using WFC3/UVIS imaging in spatial scan mode, including one partial transit of LTT1445Ac. This imaging produces resolved light curves of each of the three stars in the LTT1445 system. We confirm that the planet transits LTT1445A and that LTT 1445C is the source of the rotational modulation seen in the TESS light curve, and we refine the estimate of the dilution factor for the TESS data. We perform a joint fit to the TESS and HST observations, finding that the transit of LTT1445Ac is not grazing with 97% confidence. We measure a planetary radius of 1.07_-0.07_^+0.10^R{Earth}. Combined with previous radial velocity observations, our analysis yields a planetary mass of 1.37{+/-}0.19M{Earth} and a planetary density of 5.9_-1.5_^+1.8^g/cm^3^. LTT1445Ac is likely an Earth analog with respect to its mass and radius, albeit with a higher instellation, and is therefore an exciting target for future atmospheric studies.

Keywords
  1. exoplanets
  2. multiple-stars
  3. hst-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2023AJ....166..171P
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2024-04-22T08:02:43Z
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