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arXiv 1807.04443astro-ph.EPastro-ph.SR
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行星大气的偏振辐射转移与系外行星的偏振

Polarized Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres and the Polarization of Exoplanets

Jeremy Bailey, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Kimberly Bott

摘要:

我们描述了将偏振辐射转移纳入大气辐射转移模拟程序VSTAR(大气辐射转移通用软件)。使用矢量离散纵坐标辐射转移代码,我们能够生成一个行星的整个光盘的辐射和偏振的地图,并在这些积分得到全光盘偏振。通过这种方式,我们能够获得光盘分辨,相位分辨和光谱分辨的强度和偏振的任何广泛的大气,可以模拟与VSTAR。我们已经测试了代码再现一个标准的基准问题,以及通过与经典的计算金星的极化相位曲线进行比较。我们应用该代码来模拟热木星系统HD 189733b的偏振相位曲线。我们发现,最高的偏振振幅产生的光学厚的瑞利散射云,这些将导致27 ppm的偏振振幅的行星信号中看到的恒星和行星的组合光。与观测到的透射光谱结果一致的更现实的云模型是约20 ppm的振幅。减少云的光学深度,或使云粒子更吸收,都具有增加反射光的偏振但减少反射光的量以及因此减少观测到的偏振振幅的效果。

英文摘要:

We describe the incorporation of polarized radiative transfer into the atmospheric radiative transfer modelling code VSTAR (Versatile Software for Transfer of Atmospheric Radiation). Using a vector discrete-ordinate radiative transfer code we are able to generate maps of radiance and polarization across the disc of a planet, and integrate over these to get the full-disc polarization. In this way we are able to obtain disc-resolved, phase-resolved and spectrally-resolved intensity and polarization for any of the wide range of atmopsheres that can be modelled with VSTAR. We have tested the code by reproducing a standard benchmark problem, as well as by comparing with classic calculations of the polarization phase curves of Venus. We apply the code to modelling the polarization phase curves of the hot Jupiter system HD 189733b. We find that the highest polarization amplitudes are produced with optically thick Rayleigh scattering clouds and these would result in a polarization amplitude of 27 ppm for the planetary signal seen in the combined light of the star and planet. A more realistic cloud model consistent with the observed transmission spectrum results is an amplitude of ~20 ppm. Decreasing the optical depth of the cloud, or making the cloud particles more absorbing, both have the effect of increasing the polarization of the reflected light but reducing the amount of reflected light and hence the observed polarization amplitude.

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