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熔岩行星的氢化大气:大气结构与发射光谱

Hydrogenated atmospheres of lava planets: atmospheric structure and emission spectra

Aurélien Falco, Pascal Tremblin, Sébastien Charnoz, Robert J. Ridgway, Pierre-Olivier Lagage

AI总结:

本研究针对热岩石超级地球的氢化大气,通过汽化模型与稳态大气模型计算大气结构与发射光谱,揭示氢对热逆温的影响及观测意义,提出观测目标筛选标准。

摘要:

热岩石超级地球被认为受到其宿主恒星的充分辐照,足以熔化其表面,从而形成持久的岩浆海洋。已有研究提出了一些过程,解释这类行星在行星系统内向内迁移时,如何保留其形成过程中捕获的原始氢。JWST等新一代空间望远镜可能提供足够精确的观测结果,以表征这类系外行星的大气,甚至其内部结构。我们采用一种汽化模型,该模型可计算含氢大气与岩浆海洋之间的气液平衡,以此计算不同氢含量下各类大气的元素组成。随后将元素组成代入稳态大气模型,计算大气结构并生成合成发射光谱。通过该方法,我们证实了此前的研究结果:硅酸盐大气存在热逆温,其中SiO在9μm处有明显的发射峰。我们将本方法与已有文献中关于大气含氢的研究进行对比,发现氢会减弱热逆温,这是因为具有强温室效应的H₂O的形成。然而,受到宿主恒星强烈辐照的行星温度足够高,可使H₂O解离,因此仍能维持热逆温。该研究的观测意义有两方面:1)H₂O更可能在温度较低的大气中被探测到;2)在温度较高的大气中探测到热逆温,并不先验地排除氢(以原子形式)的存在。鉴于氢对整体化学组成、大气结构以及观测结果的影响,我们强调在气液平衡计算中纳入挥发分的重要性。最后,我们提出了一个判定潜在观测目标的标准。

英文摘要:

Hot rocky super-Earths are thought to be sufficiently irradiated by their host star to melt their surface and thus allow for long-lasting magma oceans. Some processes have been proposed for such planets to have retained primordial hydrogen captured during their formation while moving inward in the planetary system. The new generation of space telescopes such as the JWST may provide observations precise enough to characterize the atmospheres and perhaps the interiors of such exoplanets. We use a vaporization model that calculates the gas-liquid equilibrium between the atmosphere (including hydrogen) and the magma ocean, to compute the elemental composition of a variety of atmospheres for different quantities of hydrogen. The elemental composition is then used in a steady-state atmospheric model to compute the atmospheric structure and generate synthetic emission spectra. With this method, we confirm previous results showing that silicate atmospheres exhibit a thermal inversion, with notably an emission peak of SiO at 9~$μm$. We compare our method to the literature on the inclusion of hydrogen in the atmosphere, and show hydrogen reduces the thermal inversion, because of the formation of H2O which has a strong greenhouse potential. However planets that are significantly irradiated by their host star are sufficiently hot to dissociate H2O and thus also maintain a thermal inversion. The observational implications are twofold: 1) H2O is more likely to be detected in colder atmospheres; 2) Detecting a thermal inversion in hotter atmospheres does not a priori exclude the presence of H (in its atomic form). Due to the impact of H on the overall chemistry and atmospheric structure, and therefore observations, we emphasize the importance of including volatiles in the calculation of the gas-liquid equilibrium. Finally, we provide a criterion to determine potential targets for observation.

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