arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~
arXiv 1202.0026astro-ph.EP
收藏

欧姆加热暂停,而不是逆转,热超导体的冷却收缩

Ohmic Heating Suspends, not Reverses, the Cooling Contraction of Hot Jupiters

Yanqin Wu, Yoram Lithwick

摘要:

我们研究了欧姆加热下的太阳系外木星的半径演化,最近提出的一种机制来解释许多这些行星的大观测尺寸。行星出生时具有高熵,随后冷却并收缩。我们关注两个案例:第一,欧姆加热在行星热时开始(高熵);第二,它在行星冷却后开始。在前一种情况下,我们使用分析定标和数值实验来证实欧姆加热能够暂停冷却,只要百分之几的恒星辐射转化为欧姆加热,并且行星的表面风延伸到~10 bar或更深的压力。对于这些参数,冷却停止的半径与大多数行星的观测半径一致(或大于)。唯一的两个例外是WASP-17 b和HAT-P-32 b。与高熵的情况相反,我们表明欧姆加热不能显着重新膨胀行星后,他们已经冷却。这使我们认为,在热木星中观察到的半径的多样性可能部分地由它们迁移到当前位置的不同时期来解释。

英文摘要:

We study the radius evolution of close-in extra-solar jupiters under Ohmic heating, a mechanism that was recently proposed to explain the large observed sizes of many of these planets. Planets are born with high entropy and they subsequently cool and contract. We focus on two cases: first, that ohmic heating commences when the planet is hot (high entropy); and second, that it commences after the planet has cooled. In the former case, we use analytical scalings and numerical experiments to confirm that Ohmic heating is capable of suspending the cooling as long as a few percent of the stellar irradiation is converted into Ohmic heating, and the planet has a surface wind that extends to pressures of ~10 bar or deeper. For these parameters, the radii at which cooling is stalled are consistent with (or larger than) the observed radii of most planets. The only two exceptions are WASP-17b and HAT-P-32b. In contrast to the high entropy case, we show that Ohmic heating cannot significantly re-inflate planets after they have already cooled. This leads us to suggest that the diversity of radii observed in hot jupiters may be partially explained by the different epochs at which they are migrated to their current locations.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑