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热系外行星上的气溶胶动力学:辐射压的作用

Aerosol dynamics on hot exoplanets: the role of radiation pressure

James E. Owen, Ruth A. Murray-Clay

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本文研究辐射压对热系外行星气溶胶动力学的影响,发现其可加速霾粒子、抑制生长,并改变透射光谱特征,为大气表征提供新机制。

摘要:

气溶胶似乎在系外行星大气中普遍存在。然而,由于我们对支配气溶胶的物理过程理解尚不完整,它们的存在使得大气性质的测量(例如分子丰度比)变得困难。我们表明,在强辐照系外行星中,气溶胶粒子会因恒星辐射压而经历额外的加速度。对于拥有约0.1至1微米气溶胶的低密度行星(通常为亚土星),这种辐射加速度的强度往往超过行星重力,并可达到约10至20倍重力的量级。由于这些强辐照、低密度行星通常是当前仪器进行大气表征的最佳目标,因此在考虑气溶胶动力学时,辐射压很可能是一个重要过程。我们发现,辐射压会加速由光化学在高空产生的霾,使其达到更快的终端速度,从而导致它们生长得更慢。因此,在存在辐射压的情况下,粒子更小,质量浓度更低。通过在二维赤道带模型中模拟类似霾的气溶胶,我们表明辐射压会使透射光谱中的光学斜率变陡,导致近红外波段分子特征被削弱的程度降低,并使辐射压强度与分子特征振幅之间产生相关性。此外,纬向风与辐射压的相互作用会影响早晨和傍晚两个终止面上各自的光学斜率和振幅。

英文摘要:

Aerosols appear to be ubiquitous in exoplanetary atmospheres. However because our understanding of the physical processes that govern aerosols is incomplete, their presence makes the measurement of atmospheric properties, such as molecular abundance ratios, difficult. We show that aerosol particles in highly-irradiated exoplanets experience an additional acceleration due to stellar radiation pressure. The strength of this radiative acceleration often exceeds the planet's gravity and can approach values of ~10-20x gravity's for low-density planets (typically sub-Saturns) hosting ~0.1--1 micron aerosols. Since these highly irradiated, low-density planets are often the best targets for atmospheric characterisation with current instrumentation, radiation pressure is likely an important process when considering aerosol dynamics. We find that radiation pressure accelerates hazes produced by photochemistry at high altitudes to faster terminal velocities, causing them to grow more slowly. Hence, the particles are smaller and have lower mass concentrations in the presence of radiation pressure. By simulating haze-like aerosols in a 2D equatorial band model, we show that radiation pressure steepens optical slopes in transmission spectra, resulting in less muted molecular features in the Near-IR and gives rise to a correlation between the strength of radiation pressure and the molecular feature amplitude. Furthermore, the interaction of zonal winds and radiation pressure impacts both the optical slopes and amplitudes on the individual morning and evening terminators.

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