Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023

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[E] Online Poster

P (Space and Planetary Sciences ) » P-EM Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment

[P-EM11] Exoplanet

Thu. May 25, 2023 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Online Poster Zoom Room (2) (Online Poster)

convener:Takanori Kodama(The university of Tokyo), Shota Notsu(Star and Planet Formation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research), Yui Kawashima(RIKEN), Mayuko Mori(The University of Tokyo)

On-site poster schedule(2023/5/24 17:15-18:45)

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

[PEM11-P18] Subaru/IRD high-resolution spectroscopy of a T-type brown dwarf and investigation of its atmospheric properties with high-resolution spectrum model ExoJAX

*Yui Kawashima1, Hajime Kawahara2, Yui Kasagi3, Hiroyuki Ishikawa4,5, Kento Masuda6, Takayuki Kotani4,5, Tomoyuki Kudo5, Teruyuki Hirano4,5, Masayuki Kuzuhara4,5, Stevanus Nugroho4,5, John Livingston4,5, Motohide Tamura4,5,7, IRD team (1.RIKEN, 2.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3.The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 4.Astrobiology Center, 5.National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 6.Osaka University, 7.The University of Tokyo)

Keywords:Atmospheres, Brown Dwarfs, Exoplanets, High-resolution Spectroscopy, Spectra, Composition

Understanding the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs holds the key to revealing their formation and evolutionary processes. Brown dwarf atmospheres share composition and temperature with those of extrasolar gas giant planets. In general, brown dwarfs are observable with a higher signal-to-noise ratio when compared to exoplanets. Thus, the observation of brown dwarf atmospheres helps us establish our understanding of various processes in the atmospheres of such temperature and composition, including chemistry, thermal structure, dynamics, and cloud formation. Also, their high-resolution spectra serve as excellent templates for the observational validation of the molecular line lists at such high temperatures. Molecular line lists play a critical role in the detection of chemical species in exoplanet atmospheres, which are often observed with a lower signal-to-noise ratio.

Recently, we observed a high-resolution spectrum of a T6.5-type brown dwarf Gl 229B with the InfraRed Doppler (IRD, R ~ 70,000) spectrograph mounted on the Subaru Telescope. We have constrained its atmospheric properties, such as the molecular abundances and thermal structure, using an inverse-problem approach with ExoJAX. ExoJAX is an auto-differentiable high-resolution spectrum model for exoplanets and brown dwarfs we recently developed (Kawahara, Kawashima et al. 2022). In addition, we have revealed that in some wavelength regions, specific molecular line lists do not match the observed absorption features.