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The Effect of Photoionization on the Loss of Water of the Planet

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Guo JH(郭建恒)1,2,3
刊名ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
出版日期2019-02-10
卷号872期号:1页码:21
关键词planets and satellites: atmospheres planets and satellites: composition planets and satellites: physical evolution
ISSN号0004-637X
DOI10.3847/1538-4357/aaffd4
产权排序第1完成单位
文献子类Article
英文摘要

Hydrogen and oxygen can rapidly escape from the atmosphere of planets as a result of the photolysis of water by strong X-ray and ultraviolet (XUV) radiation of a star, which are fundamental to the origin of life and habitability. We developed an ion-atom mixed model to describe the escape of water from planets with water-dominated atmosphere. We showed that the oxygen ions easily escape from the atmosphere with the hydrogen owing to the strong interactions between oxygen ions and hydrogen. The atomic oxygen can escape from the atmosphere with hydrogen in the environment of high XUV irradiation. However, they decouple from hydrogen and oxygen ions with the decrease of XUV flux. We found that the critical XUV level is about 12-16 times or 30-40 times the present value for planets with the mass and separation of Venus and Earth, respectively. Below the critical XUV values, the oxygen can deposit in the atmosphere. Our results show that ions effectively transfer momentum between interacting species. The neglect of ions in the hydrodynamic model results in lower momentum exchanges between hydrogen and oxygen so that the critical XUV values increase by a factor of 2. Finally, our model predicted that the planets with a mass and separation of Venus (Earth) can lose the hydrogen of 21.5 (9.1) Earth oceans and oxygen of 2.6 (0.6) Earth oceans. Thus, the hydrodynamic escape could have dried up the water of their atmosphere in the period of early evolution.

学科主题天文学 ; 恒星与银河系 ; 恒星物理学
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出版地TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND
WOS关键词MOIST GREENHOUSE ATMOSPHERES ; HYDRODYNAMIC ESCAPE ; MASS FRACTIONATION ; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS ; EARTH ; HYDROGEN ; SOLAR ; EVOLUTION ; VENUS ; OXYGEN
资助项目National Natural Science Foundation of China[11273054] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[11333006] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[D030201]
WOS研究方向Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000458897700004
出版者IOP PUBLISHING LTD
资助机构National Natural Science Foundation of China[11273054] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[11333006] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[D030201]
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/19402]  
专题云南天文台_恒星物理研究组
云南天文台_中国科学院天体结构与演化重点实验室
通讯作者Guo JH(郭建恒)
作者单位1.Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, CAS, Kunming 650011, People's Republic of China
2.Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 110, Kunming 650011, People's Republic of China
3.School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Guo JH. The Effect of Photoionization on the Loss of Water of the Planet[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2019,872(1):21.
APA Guo JH.(2019).The Effect of Photoionization on the Loss of Water of the Planet.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,872(1),21.
MLA Guo JH."The Effect of Photoionization on the Loss of Water of the Planet".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 872.1(2019):21.

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