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Title:
Detection of visible light from the darkest world
Authors:
Kipping, David M.; Spiegel, David S.
Affiliation:
AA(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ), AB(Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 417, Issue 1, pp. L88-L92. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2011
Origin:
WILEY
Astronomy Keywords:
techniques: photometric, stars: individual: TrES-2
Abstract Copyright:
© 2011 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS
DOI:
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01127.x
Bibliographic Code:
2011MNRAS.417L..88K

Abstract

We present the detection of visible light from the planet TrES-2b, the darkest exoplanet currently known. By analysis of the orbital photometry from publicly available Kepler data (0.4-0.9 μm), we determine a day-night contrast amplitude of 6.5 ± 1.9 ppm (parts per million), constituting the lowest amplitude orbital phase variation discovered. The signal is detected to 3.7σ confidence and persists in six different methods of modelling the data and thus appears robust. In contrast, we are unable to detect ellipsoidal variations or beaming effects, but we do provide confidence intervals for these terms. If the day-night contrast is interpreted as being due to scattering, it corresponds to a geometric albedo of Ag= 0.0253 ± 0.0072. However, our models indicate that there is a significant emission component to dayside brightness, and the true albedo is even lower (<1 per cent). By combining our measurement with Spitzer and ground-based data, we show that a model with moderate redistribution (Pn≃ 0.3) and moderate extra optical opacity (κ'≃ 0.3-0.4) provide a compatible explanation to the data.
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