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A High-resolution Near-Ultraviolet Transmission Spectrum of KELT-9b: Mg II and Fe II Escaping from the Hottest Known Giant Planet

  • Authors: Austin Baldwin, Joshua D. Lothringer, Leonardo A. dos Santos, David K. Sing, Zafar Rustamkulov, Nikolay K. Nikolov, Jeff Valenti, Hannah R. Wakeford

Austin Baldwin et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 10.

Best-fit model spectrum (gold, T  = 13,200 K, ﹩\dot{M}\,=\,1{0}^{12.5}﹩ g s−1, Vbroad = 50 km s−1) to the 100 data points closest to the Mg II doublet from visit 1 (blue) and 2 (purple). A Gaussian fit to the Mg II is shown in green. Also plotted are the observations of KELT-9b from CUTE (black and gray, Visits 1 and 2, respectively, A. Egan et al. 2024). The HST/STIS observations are consistent with the CUTE observations when binned to the same wavelength scale.

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