CaII transmission spectrum of WASP-33b and KELT-9b

Studying their chemical compositions and temperature structures will improve the understanding of their mass loss rate as well as their formation and evolution. We present the detection of ionized calcium in the two hottest giant exoplanets - KELT-9b and WASP-33b.

By utilizing transit datasets from CARMENES and HARPS-N observations, we achieved high confidence level detections of CaII using the cross-correlation method. We further obtain the transmission spectra around the individual lines of the CaII H&K doublet and the near-infrared triplet, and measure their line profiles. The CaII H&K lines have an average line depth of 2.02+/-0.17% (effective radius of 1.56Rp) for WASP-33b and an average line depth of 0.78+/-0.04% (effective radius of 1.47Rp) for KELT-9b, which indicates that the absorptions are from very high upper atmosphere layers close to the planetary Roche lobes.