Atmospheric Characterization of Saturn-like Planets through Multi-band Photometry

MIGUEL BRIONES; ROMINA PETRUCCI; YILEN GÓMEZ MAQUEO CHEW

Puerto Vallarta

Workshop; NEW QUESTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS IV: ASTROCHEMISTRY, ASTROBIOLOGY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE; 2019

Nowadays, we know it is possible to obtain information about the atmospheric composition of a planet by analyzing the variation of the depth of its planetary transits as a function of wavelength. Until now, several studies of this kind have been made for Jupiter-like planets (Ciceri et al. 2016, Mancini et al. 2018, Sing et al. 2016), compared to that, the number of published papers with Saturn-type planets is small. Having this in mind, in this work, we present preliminary results of my Master´s degree thesis, which has the goal of studying the atmospheric composition of a sample of Saturn-type exoplanets by using light curves of their planetary transits obtained in different filters.