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岩石行星的内部结构和磁矩。应用于TESS发现的第一批系外行星

Internal Structure and Magnetic Moment of Rocky Planets. Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS

Jose-María Rodríguez-Mozos, Andy Moya

摘要:

对于一颗被认为在其表面可居住的行星来说,拥有一个磁场来保护其大气层免受恒星风和宇宙射线的影响是一个重要的优势。对潜在宜居行星的磁性保护在确定探测大气生物特征的机会方面起着关键作用。本文提出了使用初步参考地球模型(PREM)的内部结构作为一个数值模式的基础。利用这个模型,我们估计了干燥和富含水的类地行星和超类地行星的磁性。我们将其应用于TESS确认的前176颗行星。使用PREM作为参考,我们估计了干燥和富含水的岩石行星的内部结构。这个模型提供了行星的平均密度和核心大小的估计,以及它的磁矩,这取决于它是否被潮汐锁定。我们的模型估计热力学变量作为压力的函数,并包括盐水作为富含水的系外行星的组成部分。我们没有使用完美的层微分近似。我们用太阳系中具有类似特征的行星和卫星验证了我们的模型。在内部结构特征、质量、平均密度、转动惯量因子、局部Rossby数等方面与观测值的差异很小甚至可以忽略不计。估算的磁矩也与观测值非常相似。我们将该模型应用于TESS确认的前176颗行星,发现从天体生物学的角度来看,TOI-700 d和TOI-2257 b是最有趣的行星,因为它们位于宜居带(HZ),尽管它们的磁矩只有地球磁矩的0.01。

英文摘要:

For a planet to be considered habitable on its surface, it is an important advantage for it to have a magnetic field that protects its atmosphere from stellar winds as well as cosmic rays. Magnetic protection of potentially habitable planets plays a key role in determining the chances of detecting atmospheric biosignatures. This paper proposes to use the Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM) internal structure as the base of a numerical model. With this model, we estimate the magnetic properties of dry and water-rich Earth-like and Super-Earth-like planets. We apply it to those of this kind at the first 176 planets confirmed by TESS. Using PREM as a reference, we estimate the internal structure of dry and water-rich rocky planets. This model provides an estimation of the average density and core size of the planet and, with them, its magnetic moment depending on whether it is tidally locked or not. Our model estimates the thermodynamic variables as a function of pressure and includes saltwater as a component of water-rich exoplanets. We have not used the perfect layer differentiation approximation. We have validated our model with those planets and satellites in the Solar system with similar characteristics. The differences with the observed values in the internal structure characteristics, mass, average density, moment of inertia factor, and local Rossby number are remarkably low or even negligible. The estimated magnetic moments are also very similar to the observed ones. We have applied the model to the first 176 planets confirmed by the TESS, finding that, from an astrobiological perspective TOI-700 d and TOI-2257 b are the most interesting ones as being located in the habitable zone (HZ), although their magnetic moments are only about 0.01 of the Earth's magnetic moment.

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