Evolution of Ohmically Heated Hot Jupiters
Abstract
We present calculations of thermal evolution of Hot Jupiters with various masses and effective temperatures under Ohmic dissipation. The resulting evolutionary sequences show a clear tendency towards inflated radii for effective temperatures that give rise to significant ionization of alkali metals in the atmosphere, compatible with the trend of the data. The degree of inflation shows that Ohmic dissipation, along with the likely variability in heavy element content can account for all of the currently detected radius anomalies. Furthermore, we find that in absence of a massive core, low-mass hot Jupiters can over-flow their Roche-lobes and evaporate on Gyr time-scales, possibly leaving behind small rocky cores.
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@article{arxiv.1101.3800,
title = {Evolution of Ohmically Heated Hot Jupiters},
author = {Konstantin Batygin and David J. Stevenson and Peter H. Bodenheimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3800},
year = {2015}
}
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Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal (2011) 735-2, 9 pages, 8 figures, updated figures 2-4