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/ H. Lammer [et al.] // Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. - 2013. - Vol. 430, Is. 2. - P1247-1256, DOI 10.1093/mnras/sts705. - Cited References: 85. - NVE, KGK, MLK and HL acknowledge the support by the FWF NFN project S116 'Pathways to Habitability: From Disks to Active Stars, Planets and Life', and the related FWF NFN subprojects, S116 606-N16 'Magnetospheric Electrodynamics of Exoplanets' and S116607-N16 'Particle/Radiative Interactions with Upper Atmospheres of Planetary Bodies Under Extreme Stellar Conditions'. KGK, HL and PO thank also the Helmholtz Alliance project 'Planetary Evolution and Life'. ML and PO acknowledge support from the FWF project P22950-N16. NVE acknowledges support by the RFBR grant No 12-05-00152-a. The authors also acknowledge support from the EU FP7 project IMPEx (No. 262863) and the EUROPLANET-RI projects, JRA3/EMDAF and the Na2 science working group WG5. The authors thank the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, and the ISSI team 'Characterizing stellar- and exoplanetary environments'. Finally, we thank an anonymous referee for interesting suggestions and recommendations which helped to improve the article. . - 10. - ISSN 0035-8711РУБ Astronomy & Astrophysics

Аннотация: The discovery of transiting 'super-Earths' with inflated radii and known masses, such as Kepler-11b-f, GJ 1214b and 55 Cnc e, indicates that these exoplanets did not lose their nebula-captured hydrogen-rich, degassed or impact-delivered protoatmospheres by atmospheric escape processes. Because hydrodynamic blow-off of atmospheric hydrogen atoms is the most efficient atmospheric escape process we apply a time-dependent numerical algorithm which is able to solve the system of 1D fluid equations for mass, momentum and energy conservation to investigate the criteria under which 'super-Earths' with hydrogen-dominated upper atmospheres can experience hydrodynamic expansion by heating of the stellar soft X-rays and extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation and thermal escape via blow-off. Depending on orbit location, XUV flux, heating efficiency and the planet's mean density our results indicate that the upper atmospheres of all 'super-Earths' can expand to large distances, so that except for Kepler-11c all of them experience atmospheric mass-loss due to Roche lobe overflow. The atmospheric mass loss of the studied 'super-Earths' is one to two orders of magnitude lower compared to that of 'hot Jupiters' such as HD 209458b, so that one can expect that these exoplanets cannot lose their hydrogen envelopes during their remaining lifetimes.


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Lammer, H.; Erkaev, N.V.; Еркаев, Николай Васильевич; Odert, P.; Kislyakova, K.G.; Leitzinger, M.; Khodachenko, M.L.