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COLLISION-INDUCED ABSORPTION
SUPER-EARTHS
INTERPLANETARY GAS
Кл.слова (ненормированные):
planets and satellites: atmospheres -- planets and satellites: fundamental -- parameters -- planets and satellites: gaseous planets
COLLISION-INDUCED ABSORPTION
SUPER-EARTHS
INTERPLANETARY GAS
Кл.слова (ненормированные):
planets and satellites: atmospheres -- planets and satellites: fundamental -- parameters -- planets and satellites: gaseous planets
Аннотация: Stimulated by the discovery of a number of close-in low-density planets, we generalise the Jeans escape parameter taking hydrodynamic and Roche lobe effects into account. We furthermore define Lambda as the value of the Jeans escape parameter calculated at the observed planetary radius and mass for the planet's equilibrium temperature and considering atomic hydrogen, independently of the atmospheric temperature profile. We consider 5 and 10 M-circle plus planets with an equilibrium temperature of 500 and 1000 K, orbiting early G-, K-, and M-type stars. Assuming a clear atmosphere and by comparing escape rates obtained from the energy-limited formula, which only accounts for the heating induced by the absorption of the high-energy stellar radiation, and from a hydrodynamic atmosphere code, which also accounts for the bolometric heating, we find that planets whose Lambda is smaller than 15-35 lie in the "boil-off" regime, where the escape is driven by the atmospheric thermal energy and low planetary gravity. We find that the atmosphere of hot ( i.e. T-eq >= 1000 K) low-mass (M-pl <= 5 M-circle plus) planets with Lambda < 15-35 shrinks to smaller radii so that their Lambda evolves to values higher than 15-35, hence out of the boil-off regime, in less than approximate to 500 Myr. Because of their small Roche lobe radius, we find the same result also for hot (i.e. T-eq >= 1000 K) higher mass (M-pl <= 10 M-circle plus) planets with Lambda < 15-35, when they orbit M-dwarfs. For old, hydrogen-dominated planets in this range of parameters, Lambda should therefore be >= 15-35, which provides a strong constraint on the planetary minimum mass and maximum radius and can be used to predict the presence of aerosols and/or constrain planetary masses, for example.
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Держатели документа:
Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Schmiedlstr 6, A-8042 Graz, Austria.
SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk Sci Ctr, Fed Res Ctr, Inst Computat Modelling, Krasnoyarsk 36, Russia.
Max Planck Inst Astron, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
Karl Franzens Univ Graz, Inst Geophys Astrophys & Meteorol, Univ Pl 5, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Доп.точки доступа:
Fossati, L.; Erkaev, N.V.; Еркаев, Николай Васильевич; Lammer, H.; Cubillos, P. E.; Odert, P.; Juvan, I.; Kislyakova, K. G.; Lendl, M.; Kubyshkina, D.; Bauer, S. J.; Austrian Forschungsforderungsgesellschaft FFG projects ["RASEN" P847963, "TAPAS4CHEOPS" P853993]; Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN project [S11607-N16]; FWF project [P27256-N27]; RFBR grant [15-05- 00879-a, 16-52-14006 ANF_a]