空间望远镜直接成像时代下的系外行星多样性
地球与行星天体物理
2018-03-13 v1
摘要
本白皮书讨论了未来观测可能探测到的系外行星的多样性，以便在大空间旗舰任务即将到来的时代开展比较行星学研究。主要焦点将放在表征类太阳恒星周围的类地世界上。然而，我们也将能够同时表征系统中的伴生行星。这不仅将提供关于我们太阳系的背景图景，也呈现了在不同轨道距离观测尺寸依赖的行星大气的独特机会。我们提出了一种基于行星大气中气体与凝结物的化学行为的初步方案，依据行星半径和入射恒星通量对其进行分类。
引用
@article{arxiv.1803.03812,
title = {Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions},
author = {Ravi Kopparapu and Eric Hebrard and Rus Belikov and Natalie M. Batalha and Gijs D. Mulders and Chris Stark and Dillon Teal and Shawn Domagal-Goldman and Dawn Gelino and Avi Mandell and Aki Roberge and Stephen Rinehart and Stephen R. Kane and Yasuhiro Hasegawa and Wade Henning and Brian Hicks and Vardan Adibekyan and Edward W. Schwieterman and Erika Kohler and Johanna Teske and Natalie Hinkel and Conor Nixon and Kevin France and William Danchi and Jacob Haqq-Misra and Eric T. Wolf and Scott D. Guzewich and Benjamin Charnay and Giada Arney and Hilairy E. Hartnett and Eric D. Lopez and Dante Minniti and Joe Renaud and Vladimir Airapetian and Chuanfei Dong and Anthony D. Del Genio and Melissa Trainer and Gioia Rau and Adam Jensen and Michael Way and Carey M. Lisse and Wladimir Lyra and Franck Marchis and Daniel Jontof-Hutter and Patrick Young and Ray Pierrehumbert and Chester E. Harman and Jonathan Fortney and Bill Moore and Steven Beckwith and Everett Shock and Steve Desch and Kathleen E. Mandt and Noam Izenberg and Eric B. Ford and Shannon Curry and Caleb Scharf and Ariel Anbar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03812},
year = {2018}
}
备注
A white paper submitted to the National Academy of Sciences Exoplanet Science Strategy