A SEA BASS on the exoplanet HD209458b
Giuseppe Morello

TL;DR
This paper applies the SEA BASS Bayesian analysis method to real datasets of exoplanet HD209458b, simultaneously deriving stellar limb-darkening profiles, transit depths, and planetary atmospheric transmission spectra across multiple wavelengths.
Contribution
It improves the SEA BASS algorithm with additional passbands and geometric parameters, demonstrating its effectiveness on Hubble data and measuring stellar limb-darkening and planetary transmission spectra.
Findings
Measured stellar limb-darkening profiles across 290-570 nm.
Successfully extracted the exoplanet's transmission spectrum.
Ruled out some theoretical limb-darkening models.
Abstract
We present here the first application of Stellar and Exoplanetary Atmospheres Bayesian Analysis Simultaneous Spectroscopy (SEA BASS) on real datasets. SEA BASS is a scheme that enables the simultaneous derivation of four-coefficient stellar limb-darkening profiles, transit depths, and orbital parameters from exoplanetary transits at multiple wavelengths. It relies on the wavelength-independence of the system geometry and on the reduced limb-darkening effect in the infrared. This approach has been introduced by Morello et al. (2017) (without the SEA BASS acronym), who discuss several tests on synthetic datasets. Here, we (1) improve on the original algorithm by using multiple Spitzer/InfraRed Array Camera passbands and a more effective set of geometric parameters, (2) demonstrate its ability with Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph datasets, by (3) measuring the…
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