Spitzer Follow-Up of ~50 K2 Planets HD 3167 Is Ideal for Follow-Up HD

Spitzer Follow-Up of ~50 K2 Planets HD 3167 Is Ideal for Follow-Up HD

Preparing for JWST with Spitzer Follow-up of K2 Targets Kevin Hardegree-Ullman1,2,3, Jessie Christiansen4, Michael Werner5, Ian Crossfield6, and the K2 California Collaboration 1University of Toledo, 2IPAC Visiting Graduate Fellow, [email protected], 4NExScI, 5JPL, 6MIT Spitzer follow-up of ~50 K2 planets Spitzer analysis: the power of pixel level decorrelation (PLD) Monitoring the Mini-Neptunes with Hubble and JWST ● HD 3167 c is among the mini-Neptune class of planets, unlike any found in our own solar system, straddling the boundary 3 6 9 ● Our Spitzer program is targeting K2 planets between rocky and gas giant planets. with a wide variety of parameters. 2 5 8 ● Our team has been awarded 127 Hubble orbits in Cycle 25 to study the atmospheres of HD 3167 c, HD 106315 c, HIP 41378 b, ● Small planets (≲ 4R⊕) around cool stars and K2-3 b, which are all mini-Neptunes in multi-planet systems around bright stars. (≲ 5000 K) are prominent in our survey. 1 4 7 ● Our Hubble observations will identify trends in planet properties as a function of equilibrium temperature, UV irradiation, ● Spitzer observations provide us with updated planet mass, and stellar spectral type, allowing us to prioritize targets for JWST follow-up. system ephemerides and improved transit ^ t ^ t parameters. ● PLD analysis of Spitzer data was ● i ● ● Pixel intensity P around the Pixel weights and transit Subtracting wi P i (cyan) from pioneered by Deming et al. 2015. centroid changes over time. system parameters can be the raw light curve yields a ● At least 9 systems have multiple planets, some ● The raw light curve is noisy and a ● Each pixel fluctuation can be modeled simultaneously planet transit (below). of which we are searching for TTVs. transit is not easily identifiable. using MCMC. modeled by weight wi. HD 3167 b HD 3167 c HD 3167 is ideal for follow-up ● HD 3167 is a bright (V=8.9, H=7.2) K0 V star at a distance of 45.8 pc. ● HD 3167 b and c were discovered by Vanderburg et al. 2016 in K2 Campaign 8. ● (Left) Mass versus radius of small exoplanets compared to interior models, including our mini-Neptune sample in red. ● (Right) Atmospheric metallicity versus planet mass for volatile rich planets. Our Hubble observations will test this trend in a regime not yet explored (adapted from Kriedberg et al., 2015; Fraine et al., 2014; Morley et al., 2017). ● Two Spitzer transits of HD 3167 b. ● A Spitzer transit of HD 3167 c. ● PLD corrected light curves (cyan), binned for clarity, with an overlaid best transit This transit is much more easily model (blue). identifiable since the planet is K2-3 b HIP 41378 b HD 106315 c larger. ● Predicted transit times based on K2 data are indicated by the magenta dashed lines. ● (Top) Full processed K2 light curve from the k2phot pipeline (E. Petigura). ● (Bottom) Phase folded light curves with best fit transit models - b (left), c (right) K2 + Spitzer → JWST Neptune from Christiansen et al. 2017. HD 3167 c HD 3167 b Planet Radius (R⊕) Orbital Period (days) Equilibrium Temperature (K) Planet Radius (R⊕) Orbital Period (days) Earth b 1.56±0.06 0.959628 1860±160 b 1.609±0.1 0.959641 c 2.85±0.20 29.8454 500±40 c 2.770±0.047 29.84546 Planet parameters from K2 analysis. Planet parameters from joint Spitzer and K2 analysis. ● Spitzer observations help us prepare for Hubble and future JWST observations by allowing us to further constrain orbital periods and planet parameters. RV follow-up suggests a 3rd planet! ● Predicted transit times from K2 observations alone (magenta dashed lines) can be off by tens of minutes. Planet Spectral Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Orbital Period (days) Equilibrium Temperature (K) ● 3 planet Keplerian model best fits RV data HD 3167 b HD 3167 c K2-3 b M0 V 2.036 ± 0.073 7 ± 1.4 10.05445 570 (Christiansen et al. 2017). HD 3167 c K0 V 2.770 ± 0.047 9.8 ± 1.2 29.84546 590 ● HD 3167 d has a non-transiting geometry. HD 106315 c F5 V 4.291 ± 0.129 18 ± 6 21.05643 880 Δ~50 Δ~40 minutes! HIP 41378 b F8 D 2.721 ± 0.214 5.1 ± 1.6 15.57202 1030 minutes! Planet Mass (M⊕) Planet parameters from joint Spitzer and K2 analysis. b 5.02±0.38 c 9.80±1.27 6.90±0.71 d (M sin i) References Planet masses from ground ● Christiansen, J. L. et al. 2017, ApJ, in press ● Kreidberg, L. et al. 2015, arXiv e-prints based follow-up. ● Orbit times projected forward to the launch of JWST (blue dashed line). ● Deming, D. et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 132 ● Morley, C. V. et al. 2015, ApJ, 815, 110 ● Without Spitzer follow-up observations, the projected transit times for HD 3167 b (left) and HD 3167 c (right) could be off by up to 50 minutes. ● Fraine, J. et al. 2014, Nature, 513, 526 ● Vanderburg, A., et al. 2016, ApJL, 829, 9.

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