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2022MNRAS.515..706B - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 515, 706-715 (2022/September-1)

On the transit spectroscopy features of warm Neptunes in the TOI-421 system, revealed with their 3D aeronomy simulations.

BEREZUTSKY A.G., SHAIKHISLAMOV I.F., RUMENSKIKH M.S., KHODACHENKO M.L., LAMMER H. and MIROSHNICHENKO I.B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We simulate with a global 3D aeronomy code two warm Neptunes in the TOI-421 system and show that both planets experience significant escape of their upper atmospheres. The double shock structures, generated around the planets in course of their interaction with the stellar wind (SW) plasma flow are revealed. The calculations of stellar Ly α transit absorption by the planets reveal that it reaches a detectable level only for a moderate or strong SW, with a sufficiently high density. In this case, the energetic neutral atoms provide significant absorption at the high velocity blue wing of the Ly α line, whereas the corresponding transit light curves exhibit an early ingress and extended egress features. With the same code, we also modelled the absorption at the position of the 10 830 Å line of the metastable helium, showing that it can be detected only for the farthest planet of the considered two, if the helium abundance is comparable to the solar value.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): hydrodynamics - plasmas - planets and satellites: physical evolution - planet-star interactions

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