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arXiv 2008.03952astro-ph.EPastro-ph.IM
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未检测到O $_2$ /O $_3$表明类地行星的频率为LUVOIR而非HabEx

Non-detection of O$_2$/O$_3$ informs frequency of Earth-like planets with LUVOIR but not HabEx

Jade H. Checlair, Benjamin P. C. Hayworth, Stephanie L. Olson, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Predrag Popović, Huanzhou Yang, Dorian S. Abbot

摘要:

寻找地外生命的一个关键问题是,地外地球是否与地球相似,因为它们的大气层大致遵循地球的氧化历史,逐渐氧化。这个问题可以通过在HabEx或LUVOIR探测到的系外地球上搜索O $_2$和O $_3$来回答。本文的重点是比较HabEx和LUVOIR的能力,以防止这个问题的假阴性答案,其中我们没有检测到O $_2$或O $_3$在任何行星上,即使所有的系外地球是地球一样的。我们的方法是分配O $_2$和O $_3$值从地球的历史,可检测的exoEarths的分布,并确定是否O $_2$和O $_3$将使用行星光谱发生器检测。我们发现,如果系外地球往往是地球一样,我们希望检测O $_3$与LUVOIR大小的仪器。我们还发现,LUVOIR不太可能在其目标外地球上寻找类似地球的生命的背景下出现假阴性情景。因此,如果LUVOIR没有在任何系外地球上检测到O $_2$或O $_3$,我们将能够限制可能与地球相似的系外地球的最大数量。相比之下,我们发现,即使所有的系外地球都与地球相似,HabEx也有高达22%的机会在其中任何一个上都没有检测到O $_2$或O $_3$。这是因为HabEx探测到的行星较少,无法在所有潜在的元古代水平可靠地探测到O $_2$和O $_3$。这是一个强有力的论据,如果我们想确定系外地球是否倾向于像地球一样,就应该建造一个更大的望远镜,比如LUVOIR。

英文摘要:

A critical question in the search for extraterrestrial life is whether exoEarths are Earth-like, in that they host life that progressively oxygenates their atmospheres roughly following Earth's oxygenation history. This question could be answered statistically by searching for O$_2$ and O$_3$ on exoEarths detected by HabEx or LUVOIR. The point of this paper is to compare the ability of HabEx and LUVOIR to prevent a false negative answer to this question, in which we do not detect O$_2$ or O$_3$ on any planet even if all exoEarths are Earth-like. Our approach is to assign O$_2$ and O$_3$ values drawn from Earth's history to a distribution of detectable exoEarths and determine whether O$_2$ and O$_3$ would be detectable using the Planetary Spectrum Generator. We find that if exoEarths tend to be Earth-like, we expect to detect O$_3$ with a LUVOIR-sized instrument. We also find that LUVOIR is unlikely to have a false negative scenario in the context of searching for Earth-like life on its targeted exoEarths. Because of that, if LUVOIR does not detect O$_2$ or O$_3$ on any exoEarths, we will be able to constrain the maximum number of exoEarths that could be Earth-like. In contrast, we find that even if all exoEarths are Earth-like, HabEx has up to a 22% chance of not detecting O$_2$ or O$_3$ on any of them. This is because HabEx will detect less planets and cannot reliably detect O$_2$ and O$_3$ at all potential Proterozoic levels. This is a strong argument for building a larger telescope such as LUVOIR if we want to determine whether exoEarths tend to be Earth-like.

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