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A Note on the "Various Atmospheres over Water Oceans on Terrestrial Planets with a One-Dimensional Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2022-10-17 v2

Abstract

It has been investigated the possibility of the various atmospheres over water oceans. We have considered the H2_2 atmosphere and He atmosphere concerning to N2_2 atmosphere over oceans. One of the main subjects in astrobiology is to estimate the habitable zone. If there is an ocean on the planet with an atmosphere, there is an upper limit to the outgoing infrared radiation called the Komabayashi-Ingersoll limit (KI-limit). This limit depends on the components of the atmospheres. We have investigated this dependence under the simple model, using the one-dimensional gray radiative-convective equilibrium model adopted by Nakajima et al. (1992). The outgoing infrared radiation (FIRoutF_{IRout}) with the surface temperature (TsT_s) has shown some peculiar behavior. The examples for H2_2, He, and N2_2 background gas for H2_2O vapour are investigated. There is another limit called the Simpson-Nakajima limit (SN-limit) mainly composed of vapour. This steam limit does not depend on the background atmosphere components. Under super-Earth case (g=2×g=2\times9.8 m/s2^2), several cases are also calculated. The KI-limit dependence on the initial pressure is presented. The various emission rates by Koll & Cronin (2019) are investigated.

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@article{arxiv.2210.05963,
  title  = {A Note on the "Various Atmospheres over Water Oceans on Terrestrial Planets with a One-Dimensional Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model},
  author = {Tetsuya Hara and Anna Suzuki and Masayoshi Kiguchi and Akika Nakamichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05963},
  year   = {2022}
}

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36 pages, 29 figures