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高温下CO2的VUV吸收截面和对系外行星大气的影响

VUV-absorption cross section of CO2 at high temperatures and impact on exoplanet atmospheres

Olivia Venot, Nicolas Fray, Yves Bénilan, Marie-Claire Gazeau, Eric Hébrard, Gwenaelle Larcher, Martin Schwell, Michel Dobrijevic, Franck Selsis

摘要:

紫外吸收截面是光化学大气模式的重要组成部分。系外行星的搜索已经揭示了大量具有热大气的短周期天体,与我们在太阳系中发现的非常不同。凌日系外行星的大气层现在可以通过凌日光谱学进行研究,它们接收到非常强的紫外线通量,典型的温度范围为400至2500 K。在这些温度下,严重缺乏紫外光分解截面数据。我们的目标是提供重要大气化合物的高温吸收截面及其温度依赖性。这项研究致力于CO2,这是观察和光离解在系外行星大气。我们在300、410、480和550 K下对115 - 200 nm范围进行了这些测量。在195 - 230 nm范围内,我们在465 - 800 K之间的七个温度下工作。我们发现CO2的吸收截面对温度非常敏感,尤其是在160 nm以上。在所研究的温度范围内,CO2的截面可以变化超过两个数量级。这尤其使得CO2的吸收在高达230 nm的波长下是显著的,而在300 K下在200 nm以上是可忽略的。为了研究这些新数据对系外行星光化学的影响,我们将测量的截面应用到一维光化学模型中。该模型预测,占这种温度依赖性的CO2截面可以影响计算的NH3,CO2和CO的丰度由一个数量级的热木星和热海王星的大气。

英文摘要:

Ultraviolet (UV) absorption cross sections are an essential ingredient of photochemical atmosphere models. Exoplanet searches have unveiled a large population of short-period objects with hot atmospheres, very different from what we find in our solar system. Transiting exoplanets whose atmospheres can now be studied by transit spectroscopy receive extremely strong UV fluxes and have typical temperatures ranging from 400 to 2500 K. At these temperatures, UV photolysis cross section data are severely lacking. Our goal is to provide high-temperature absorption cross sections and their temperature dependency for important atmospheric compounds. This study is dedicated to CO2, which is observed and photodissociated in exoplanet atmospheres. We performed these measurements for the 115 - 200 nm range at 300, 410, 480, and 550 K. In the 195 - 230 nm range, we worked at seven temperatures between 465 and 800 K. We found that the absorption cross section of CO2 is very sensitive to temperature, especially above 160 nm. Within the studied range of temperature, the CO2 cross section can vary by more than two orders of magnitude. This, in particular, makes the absorption of CO2 significant up to wavelengths as high as 230 nm, while it is negligible above 200 nm at 300 K. To investigate the influence of these new data on the photochemistry of exoplanets, we implemented the measured cross section into a 1D photochemical model. The model predicts that accounting for this temperature dependency of CO2 cross section can affect the computed abundances of NH3, CO2, and CO by one order of magnitude in the atmospheres of hot Jupiter and hot Neptune.

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