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基于散射光变曲线的类地系外行星全球测绘

Global Mapping of Earth-like Exoplanets from Scattered Light Curves

Hajime Kawahara, Yuka Fujii

摘要:

来自类地系外行星的散射光提供了有关行星表面的宝贵信息。将Fujii et al.(2010)提出的地表重建方法应用于散射光的日变化和年变化,我们开发了一种具有经度和纬度分辨率的土地分布重建方法。我们发现,人们可以恢复一个理想化的类地行星的全球地图在以下假设:1)无云,2)一个正面的圆形轨道,3)已知的表面类型和它们的反射光谱4)没有大气吸收,5)已知的旋转速率6)静态地图,和7)没有月亮。利用光变曲线对行星质量的依赖关系,我们还证明了质量可以用卡方最小化或扩展信息准则来度量。我们证明了我们的方法的可行性,将其应用到一个多波段测光的无云模型地球与未来的空间任务,如掩星臭氧观测站(O3)。我们的结论是,未来的太空任务可以估计的表面分布和至少在5 pc的无云类地行星的行星的密度。

英文摘要:

Scattered lights from terrestrial exoplanets provide valuable information about the planetary surface. Applying the surface reconstruction method proposed by Fujii et al. (2010) to both diurnal and annual variations of the scattered light, we develop a reconstruction method of land distribution with both longitudinal and latitudinal resolutions. We find that one can recover a global map of an idealized Earth-like planet on the following assumptions: 1) cloudless, 2) a face-on circular orbit, 3) known surface types and their reflectance spectra 4) no atmospheric absorption, 5) known rotation rate 6) static map, and 7) no moon. Using the dependence of light curves on the planetary obliquity, we also show that the obliquity can be measured by adopting the chi-square minimization or the extended information criterion. We demonstrate a feasibility of our methodology by applying it to a multi-band photometry of a cloudless model Earth with future space missions such as the occulting ozone observatory (O3). We conclude that future space missions can estimate both the surface distribution and the obliquity at least for cloudless Earth-like planets within 5 pc.

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