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行星magnetosphere围绕后主序星的演化

Planetary magnetosphere evolution around post-main-sequence stars

Dimitri Veras, Aline A. Vidotto

摘要:

伴随着对围绕白矮星和巨星运行的行星的越来越多的探测,是关于它们的物理历史和演化的问题,特别是关于它们的大气层的可探测性和可居住性的潜力。在这里,我们确定行星磁层的大小如何随着时间的推移,从主序结束到白矮星阶段,由于猛烈的风的红巨星和渐近巨星分支恒星。通过使用半解析公式,我们研究了行星类型,行星轨道和恒星宿主质量(1- 7 Msun)的整个相关相空间。我们发现,在巨分支阶段的某个时刻,行星的磁层总是会被压扁,除非行星的磁场强度至少比木星的当前值高两个数量级。我们还表明,恒星风和密度的时间变化产生的风冲压压力的净增加,并不允许磁层保持在任何时候的磁场强度小于10^{-5} T(0.1 G)。这种缺乏保护的现象暗示,目前可能适合居住的行星围绕着白矮星运行,以前可能是不适合居住的。

英文摘要:

Accompanying the mounting detections of planets orbiting white dwarfs and giant stars are questions about their physical history and evolution, particularly regarding detectability of their atmospheres and potential for habitability. Here we determine how the size of planetary magnetospheres evolve over time from the end of the main sequence through to the white dwarf phase due to the violent winds of red giant and asymptotic giant branch stars. By using a semianalytic prescription, we investigate the entire relevant phase space of planet type, planet orbit and stellar host mass (1-7Msun). We find that a planetary magnetosphere will always be quashed at some point during the giant branch phases unless the planet's magnetic field strength is at least two orders of magnitude higher than Jupiter's current value. We also show that the time variation of the stellar wind and density generates a net increase in wind ram pressure and does not allow a magnetosphere to be maintained at any time for field strengths less than 10^{-5} T (0.1 G). This lack of protection hints that currently potentially habitable planets orbiting white dwarfs would have been previously inhospitable.

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