Spectroscopic characterization of transiting exoplanets : A study of the possibility to detect atmospheres around exoplanets using SIMPLE

Description

This report describes simulations of observations with the near-infrared high-resolution spectrometer SIMPLE that is proposed to the ESO telescope E-ELT. We simulate M4 and G2 stars with transiting Earth-like planets and the goal is to distinguish spectral features originating from the atmosphere of the exoplanet. Noise levels of different magnitudes are added to the simulations and the minimal signal-to-noise required for detection of the atmosphere is estimated. Our conclusion is that detection of atmospheric features looks promising using this setup.

Links & Downloads

1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-149020

Tags

exoplanet

atmosphere

spectrum

extra solar planet

spectroscopy

SIMPLE

E-ELT

ESO

spectrometer

telescope

spectral features

noise

signal to noise

S/N

planet

star

red dwarf

atmospheric features

Super-Earth

Earth-like

Astronomy

Astronomi

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-149020
Date	January 2011
Creators	Waldén, Pierre, Aronson, Erik
Publisher	Uppsala universitet, Observationell astrofysik, Uppsala universitet, Observationell astrofysik
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation	FYSAST