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We present new Keck/NIRC2 3-5 mu m infrared photometry of the planetary-mass companion to ROXS 42B in L', and for the first time in Brackett-alpha (Br alpha) and in M-s-band. We combine our data with existing near-infrared photometry and K-band (2-2.4 mu m) spectroscopy and compare these data with models and other directly imaged planetary-mass objects using forward modeling and retrieval methods in order to characterize the atmosphere of ROXS 42B b. The ROXS 42B b 1.25-5 mu m spectral energy distribution most closely resembles that of GSC 06214 B and k And b, although it has a slightly bluer K-s - M-s color than GSC 06214 B and thus currently lacks evidence of a circumplanetary disk. We cannot formally exclude the possibility that any of the tested dust-free/dusty/cloudy forward models describe the atmosphere of ROXS 42B b well. However, models with substantial atmospheric dust/clouds yield temperatures and gravities that are consistent when fit to photometry and spectra separately, whereas dust-free model fits to photometry predict temperatures/gravities inconsistent with the ROXS 42B b K-band spectrum and vice-versa. Atmospheric retrieval on the 1-5 mu m photometry places a limit on the fractional number density of CO2 of log(nCO(2)) < -2.7, but provides no other constraints so far. We conclude that ROXS 42B b has mid-IR photometric features that are systematically different from other previously observed planetary-mass and field objects of similar temperature. It remains unclear whether this is in the range of the natural diversity of targets at the very young (similar to 2 Myr) age of ROXS 42B b or unique to its early evolution and environment.
- 出版日期2017-5
- 单位中国科学院国家天文台
