Detecting volcanically produced tori along orbits of exoplanets using UV spectroscopy
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2019-07-12 v1
Abstract
We suggest to use the Hubble Space Telescople (HST) follow-up observations of the TESS targets for detecting possible plasma tori along the orbits of exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs. The source of the torus could be planetary volcanic activity due to tidal or electromagnetic induction heating. Fast losses to space for planets orbiting these active stars can lead to the lost material forming a torus along the planetary orbit, similar to the Io plasma torus. We show that such torus would be potentially detectable by the HST in the UV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.05088,
title = {Detecting volcanically produced tori along orbits of exoplanets using UV spectroscopy},
author = {Kristina G. Kislyakova and Luca Fossati and Denis Shulyak and Eike Günther and Manuel Güdel and Colin P. Johnstone and Vladimir Airapetian and Sudeshna Boro Saikia and Allan Sacha Brun and Vera Dobos and Kevin France and Eric Gaidos and Maxim L. Khodachenko and Antonino F. Lanza and Helmut Lammer and Lena Noack and Rodrigo Luger and Antoine Strugarek and Aline Vidotto and Allison Youngblood},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05088},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
White paper submitted on the use of HST for TESS follow-up observations, 5 pages, 2 figures