Hot Jupiter (HJ) type exoplanets are expected to produce strong radio emission in the MHz range via the Electron Cyclotron Maser Instability (ECMI). To date, no repeatable detections have been made. To explain the absence of observational results, we conduct 3D adaptive mess refinement (AMR) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the magnetic interactions between a solar type star and HJ using the publicly available code PLUTO. The results are used to calculate the efficiency of the ECMI at producing detectable radio emission from the planets magnetosphere. We also calculate the frequency of the ECMI emission, providing an upper and lower bounds, placing it at the limits of detectability due to Earth's ionospheric cutoff of $\sim 10 \ \mathrm{MHz}$. The incident kinetic and magnetic power available to the ECMI is also determined and a flux of $0.069 \ \mathrm{mJy}$ for an observer at $10 \ \mathrm{pc}$ is calculated. The magnetosphere is also characterized and an analysis of the bow shock which forms upstream of the planet is conducted. This shock corresponds to the thin shell model for a colliding wind system. A result consistent with a colliding wind system. The simulation results show that the ECMI process is completely inhibited by the planets expanding atmosphere, due to absorption of UV radiation form the host star. The density, velocity, temperature and magnetic field of the planetary wind are found to result in a magnetosphere where the plasma frequency is raised above that due to the ECMI process making the planet undetectable at radio MHz frequencies.
Supermassive Hot Jupiters Provide More Favourable Conditions for the Generation of Radio Emission via the Cyclotron Maser Instability - A Case Study Based on Tau Bootis b
Resistive MHD Simulations of Stellar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling in TRAPPIST-1e
Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES) Unidad Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(国立自治大学高级研究国家学院莫雷利亚分部);Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(国立自治大学核科学研究所)
The magnetic field strength of a methane dwarf measured from its radio spectral cutoff
ASTRON, The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy(荷兰射电天文研究所);Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学卡普坦天文研究所);Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam(阿姆斯特丹大学安东·潘内库克天文研究所);Leiden Observatory, Leiden University(莱顿大学莱顿天文台)
A Jupiter-like radio aurora in the L3.5 dwarf LSPM J0036+1821
Universitat de València(瓦伦西亚大学);Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA(西班牙国家研究委员会-国家航空航天技术研究所天体生物学中心);Lowell Observatory(洛厄尔天文台);Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin(都柏林大学圣三一学院);University of Colorado Boulder(科罗拉多大学博尔德分校);American Museum of Natural History(美国自然历史博物馆)
Radio masers on WX UMa: hints of a Neptune-sized planet, or magnetospheric reconnection?
附近的M矮星WX Uma最近被LOFAR在无线电波段探测到。结合其观察到的亮度温度和圆偏振分数表明,通过电子回旋脉泽不稳定性产生的排放。有两种不同的机制被提出来为低质量恒星的这种发射提供动力:要么是恒星磁场和轨道行星之间的亚阿尔夫文相互作用,要么是恒星磁层边缘的重联。在本文中,我们调查这两种机制的可行性,利用恒星周围的等离子体环境的信息,从模拟其恒星风。利用这些信息,我们表明,海王星大小的系外行星的磁场强度为10-100 G的轨道在~0.034 AU可以准确地再现观测到的无线电发射从恒星,相应的轨道周期为7.4天。由于恒星的倾角,在赤道轨道上的行星不太可能经过恒星。虽然这样一颗行星可能会引起径向速度半振幅从7到396 m s $^{-1}$,但由于宿主恒星的活动,这种信号不太可能用现有技术检测到。我们的行星引起的无线电发射模型在这里的应用说明了其令人兴奋的潜力,作为一个新的工具,从长期的无线电监测识别行星托管候选人。我们还开发了一个模型来研究重新连接供电的排放情况。虽然这种方法产生的结果不如行星引起的情景,但它仍然是一种潜在的替代排放机制,值得进一步探讨。