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2020ApJ...897..101C - Astrophys. J., 897, 101-101 (2020/July-1)

The space environment and atmospheric joule heating of the habitable zone exoplanet TOI 700 d.

COHEN O., GARRAFFO C., MOSCHOU S.-P., DRAKE J.J., ALVARADO-GOMEZ J.D., GLOCER A. and FRASCHETTI F.

Abstract (from CDS):

We investigate the space environment conditions near the Earth-size planet TOI 700 d using a set of numerical models for the stellar corona and wind, the planetary magnetosphere, and the planetary ionosphere. We drive our simulations using a scaled-down stellar input and a scaled-up solar input in order to obtain two independent solutions. We find that for the particular parameters used in our study, the stellar wind conditions near the planet are not very extreme-slightly stronger than that near the Earth in terms of the stellar wind ram pressure and the intensity of the interplanetary magnetic field. Thus, the space environment near TOI 700 d may not be extremely harmful to the planetary atmosphere, assuming the planet resembles the Earth. Nevertheless, we stress that the stellar input parameters and the actual planetary parameters are unconstrained, and different parameters may result in a much greater effect on the atmosphere of TOI 700 d. Finally, we compare our results to solar wind measurements in the solar system and stress that modest stellar wind conditions may not guarantee atmospheric retention of exoplanets.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Stellar winds - Stellar coronae - Geomagnetic fields - Exoplanet atmospheric variability - Solar wind

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