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太阳系外行星系类Milankovitch偏心率振荡引起的极端气候变化

Extreme Climate Variations from Milankovitch-like Eccentricity Oscillations in Extrasolar Planetary Systems

David S. Spiegel

摘要:

尽管我们的太阳系主要以圆形轨道为特征,但迄今为止发现的系外行星表明,这是例外而不是规则。这可能会对系外行星的气候产生至关重要的影响,既因为偏心的类地系外行星可能会有极端的季节变化,也因为偏心轨道上的巨行星可能会激发潜在的宜居类地行星的米兰科维奇式变化,在数千年到数百万年的时间尺度上。一个特别有趣的暗示是,地球被认为在过去的10亿年里至少经历了一次全球冻结的“雪球”状态,当冰盖关闭碳酸盐-硅酸盐循环时,它可能在数百万年的温室气体积累后退出。富含水的太阳系外类地行星有能力承载生命,可能有陷入类似雪球状态的风险。在这里,我们表明,如果一个类地行星有一个巨大的同伴在一个足够偏心的轨道上,它可以经历米兰科维奇振荡的偏心率足够大的幅度融化的雪球状态。

英文摘要:

Although our solar system features predominantly circular orbits, the exoplanets discovered so far indicate that this is the exception rather than the rule. This could have crucial consequences for exoplanet climates, both because eccentric terrestrial exoplanets could have extreme seasonal variation, and because giant planets on eccentric orbits could excite Milankovitch-like variations of a potentially habitable terrestrial planet,Äôs eccentricity, on timescales of thousands-to-millions of years. A particularly interesting implication concerns the fact that the Earth is thought to have gone through at least one globally frozen, "snowball" state in the last billion years that it presumably exited after several million years of buildup of greenhouse gases when the ice-cover shut off the carbonate-silicate cycle. Water-rich extrasolar terrestrial planets with the capacity to host life might be at risk of falling into similar snowball states. Here we show that if a terrestrial planet has a giant companion on a sufficiently eccentric orbit, it can undergo Milankovitch-like oscillations of eccentricity of great enough magnitude to melt out of a snowball state.

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