EPSC Abstracts Vol. 12, EPSC2018-424, 2018 European Planetary Science Congress 2018 EEuropeaPn PlanetarSy Science CCongress c Author(s) 2018 The near-UV transmission spectrum of the prototypical hot Jupiter HD 209458 b Luca Fossati (1), Patricio Cubillos (1), Tommi Koskinen (2), Kevin France (3), Monika Lendl (1) and Sreejith Aickara Gopinathan (1) (1) Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria (
[email protected]), (2) University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tuscon, Arizona, United States (3) University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, Colorado, United States Abstract Acknowledgements L.F. and S.A.G. acknowledge financial support from the Austrian Forschungsforderungsgesellschaft FFG project ACUTEDIRNDL P859718. CUTE is sup- ported by NASA grant NNX17AI84G (PI - K. France) There is growing observational and theoretical evi- to the University of Colorado Boulder. dence suggesting that atmospheric escape is a key driver of planetary evolution, thus shaping the ob- served exoplanet demographics. We present how References the near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectral range offers am- ple possibilities to directly observe and constrain the [1] Fleming, B. T., France, K., Nell, N., et al. 2018, Journal properties of exoplanet upper atmospheres. To date, of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, WASP-12 and HD 209458 are the only systems with 4, 014004 observed and published spectrally resolved NUV tran- [2] Fossati, L., Haswell, C. A., Froning, C. S., et al. 2010, sit observations collected with HST [2, 3, 4]. The ApJL, 714, L222 first analysis of the prototypical hot Jupiter HD 209458 NUV observations, concentrated exclusively on the [3] Haswell, C.