- Xuan, Jerry W;
- Wang, Jason;
- Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste;
- Knutson, Heather;
- Mawet, Dimitri;
- Mollière, Paul;
- Kolecki, Jared;
- Vigan, Arthur;
- Mukherjee, Sagnick;
- Wallack, Nicole;
- Wang, Ji;
- Baker, Ashley;
- Bartos, Randall;
- Blake, Geoffrey A;
- Bond, Charlotte Z;
- Bryan, Marta;
- Calvin, Benjamin;
- Cetre, Sylvain;
- Chun, Mark;
- Delorme, Jacques-Robert;
- Doppmann, Greg;
- Echeverri, Daniel;
- Finnerty, Luke;
- Fitzgerald, Michael P;
- Horstman, Katelyn;
- Inglis, Julie;
- Jovanovic, Nemanja;
- López, Ronald;
- Martin, Emily C;
- Morris, Evan;
- Pezzato, Jacklyn;
- Ragland, Sam;
- Ren, Bin;
- Ruane, Garreth;
- Sappey, Ben;
- Schofield, Tobias;
- Skemer, Andrew;
- Venenciano, Taylor;
- Wallace, J Kent;
- Wizinowich, Peter
Direct imaging studies have mainly used low-resolution spectroscopy (R ∼ 20-100) to study the atmospheres of giant exoplanets and brown dwarf companions, but the presence of clouds has often led to degeneracies in the retrieved atmospheric abundances (e.g., carbon-to-oxygen ratio, metallicity). This precludes clear insights into the formation mechanisms of these companions. The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) uses adaptive optics and single-mode fibers to transport light into NIRSPEC (R ∼ 35,000 in the K band), and aims to address these challenges with high-resolution spectroscopy. Using an atmospheric retrieval framework based on petitRADTRANS, we analyze the KPIC high-resolution spectrum (2.29-2.49 μm) and the archival low-resolution spectrum (1-2.2 μm) of the benchmark brown dwarf HD 4747 B (m = 67.2 ± 1.8 M Jup, a = 10.0 ± 0.2 au, T eff ≈ 1400 K). We find that our measured C/O and metallicity for the companion from the KPIC high-resolution spectrum agree with those of its host star within 1σ-2σ. The retrieved parameters from the K-band high-resolution spectrum are also independent of our choice of cloud model. In contrast, the retrieved parameters from the low-resolution spectrum are highly sensitive to our chosen cloud model. Finally, we detect CO, H2O, and CH4 (volume-mixing ratio of log(CH4) = −4.82 ± 0.23) in this L/T transition companion with the KPIC data. The relative molecular abundances allow us to constrain the degree of chemical disequilibrium in the atmosphere of HD 4747 B, and infer a vertical diffusion coefficient that is at the upper limit predicted from mixing length theory.