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Grid of pseudo-2D chemistry models for tidally locked exoplanets – II. The role of photochemistry

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Date
06/2022
Author
Baeyens, Robin
Konings, Thomas
Venot, Olivia
Carone, Ludmila
Decin, Leen
Funder
The Royal Society
Grant ID
URF/R1/211718
Keywords
Planets and satellites: atmospheres
Planets and satellites: composition
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
NDAS
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Abstract
Photochemistry is expected to change the chemical composition of the upper atmospheres of irradiated exoplanets through the dissociation of species, such as methane and ammonia, and the association of others, such as hydrogen cyanide. Although primarily the high altitude day side should be affected by photochemistry, it is still unclear how dynamical processes transport photochemical species throughout the atmosphere, and how these chemical disequilibrium effects scale with different parameters. In this work we investigate the influence of photochemistry in a two-dimensional context, by synthesizing a grid of photochemical models across a large range of temperatures. We find that photochemistry can strongly change the atmospheric composition, even up to depths of several bar in cool exoplanets. We further identify a sweet spot for the photochemical production of hydrogen cyanide and acetylene, two important haze precursors, between effective temperatures of 800 and 1400 K. The night sides of most cool planets (Teff < 1800 K) are shown to host photochemistry products, transported from the day side by horizontal advection. Synthetic transmission spectra are only marginally affected by photochemistry, but we suggest that observational studies probing higher altitudes, such as high-resolution spectroscopy, take photochemistry into account.
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Baeyens , R , Konings , T , Venot , O , Carone , L & Decin , L 2022 , ' Grid of pseudo-2D chemistry models for tidally locked exoplanets – II. The role of photochemistry ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 512 , no. 4 , pp. 4877–4892 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac809
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac809
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac809.
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Funding: RB acknowledges funding from a PhD fellowship of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). OV acknowledges support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), through the project EXACT (ANR-21-CE49-0008-0) and from the CNRS/INSU Programme National de Planétologie (PNP). This work was supported by CNES, focused on the EXACT project and Ariel. LC acknowledges support from the DFG Priority Programme SP1833 Grant CA 1795/3 and the UK Royal Society Grant URF R1 211718. LD acknowledges support from the FWO research grant G086217N. RB, TK, and LD acknowledge support from the KU Leuven IDN/19/028 grant ESCHER.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25174

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