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Thermal Tides in Rotating Hot Jupiters

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2019-07-10 v1

Abstract

We calculate tidal torque due to semi-diurnal thermal tides in rotating hot Jupiters, taking account of the effects of radiative cooling in the envelope and of the planets rotation on the tidal responses. We use a simple Jovian model composed of a nearly isentropic convective core and a thin radiative envelope. To represent the tidal responses of rotating planets, we employ series expansions in terms of spherical harmonic functions YlmY_l^m with different lls for a given mm. For low forcing frequency, there occurs frequency resonance between the forcing and the gg- and rr-modes in the envelope and inertial modes in the core. We find that the resonance enhances the tidal torque, and that the resonance with the gg- and rr-modes produces broad peaks and that with the inertial modes very sharp peaks, depending on the magnitude of the non-adiabatic effects associated with the oscillation modes. We also find that the behavior of the tidal torque as a function of the forcing frequency (or period) is different between prograde and retrograde forcing, particularly for long forcing periods because the rr-modes, which have long periods, exist only on the retrograde side.

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@article{arxiv.1906.10330,
  title  = {Thermal Tides in Rotating Hot Jupiters},
  author = {Umin Lee and Daiki Murakami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10330},
  year   = {2019}
}

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18 pages, 13 figures

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