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arxiv: 2412.01472 · v4 · pith:BZH3YABNnew · submitted 2024-12-02 · 🌌 astro-ph.EP

Time Resolved Absorption of Six Chemical Species With MAROON-X Points to Strong Drag in the Ultra Hot Jupiter TOI-1518 b

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Wind dynamics play a pivotal role in governing transport processes within planetary atmospheres, influencing atmospheric chemistry, cloud formation, and the overall energy budget. Understanding the strength and patterns of winds is crucial for comprehensive insights into the physics of ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres. This study focuses on unraveling the wind dynamics and the chemical composition in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-1518 b. Two transit observations using the high-resolution (R{\lambda} = 85 000), optical (spectral coverage between 490 and 920 nm) spectrograph MAROON-X were obtained and analyzed to explore the chemical composition and wind dynamics using the cross-correlation techniques, global circulating models, and atmospheric retrieval. We report the detection of 14 species in the atmosphere of TOI-1518 b through cross-correlation analysis. Additionally, we measure the time-varying cross-correlation trails for 6 different species, compare them with predictions from General Circulation Models (GCM) and conclude that a strong drag is present in TOI-1518b's atmosphere. We find that the trails are species-dependent. Fe+ favors a stronger drag than Fe, which we interpret as a sign of magnetic effects being responsible for the observed strong drag. Furthermore, we show that Ca+ probes layers above the Roche lobe, leading to a qualitatively different trail than the other species. Finally, we use a retrieval analysis to characterize the abundance of the different species detected. That analysis is refined thanks to the updated planetary mass we derived from the radial-velocity detection using SOPHIE data. We measure an abundance of iron corresponding to 0.07 to 1.62 solar enrichment. The retrievals appear to be biased for the other elements, probably due to the different Kp/Vsys shifts between iron and the other elements, which we demonstrate in the case of VO.

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