Characterising Exoplanet KELT-9b with a 1.5 m telescope [arXiv: 2301.10406]
Channel: Universal Queries
Date: 2023-01-26

KELT-9b is the hottest Jupiter-sized planet we have found to date, showing us what the boundaries are when it comes to ultra-hot Jupiters. From analysing archival data taken in 2014 and 2015 on a 1.5 m telescope,  astronomers were able to recover multiple chemical species within the atmosphere of KELT-9b, while also proposing what might be causing the planet to have an unusual light curve shape observed via Hα.

This paper is currently accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, but is currently available to read via preprint using the link below:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10406