2025MNRAS.538.3042D


Query : 2025MNRAS.538.3042D

2025MNRAS.538.3042D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 538, 3042-3066 (2025/April-3)

Detectability of oxygen fugacity regimes in the magma ocean world 55 Cancri e at high spectral resolution.

DASH S., BROGI M., SEIDLER F.L., SOSSI P.A., GANDHI S., PANWAR V., LAFARGA M. and WHEATLEY P.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

Ultra-short-period exoplanets such as 55 Cancri e (55 Cnc e), hosting dayside magma oceans, present unique opportunities to study surface-atmosphere interactions. The composition of a vaporized mineral atmosphere enveloping the dayside is dictated by that of the surface magma ocean, which in turn is sensitive to its oxygen fugacity (fO$_2$). Observability estimations and characterization of the atmospheric emission of 55 Cnc e have mostly remained limited to low spectral resolution space-based studies. Here, we aim to examine ground-based high-resolution observabilities of a diverse set of mineral atmospheres produced across a grid of mantle fO$_2$s varying over 12 orders of magnitude. We assume a bulk silicate Earth mantle composition and a substellar dayside temperature of T = 2500 K in the near-infrared wavelength region. This spectral range is often featureless for this class of atmospheres at low resolution. Coupling our newly developed simulator for synthesizing realistic observations from high-resolution ground-based spectrographs (Ratri) to a pre-developed high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy (HRCCS) analysis pipeline (Upamana), we find that this array of mineral atmospheres would all be detectable with 11 h of observing time of the dayside of 55 Cnc e with CARMENES and each individual scenario can be correctly differentiated within 1$\sigma$. Our analysis is readily able to distinguish between a planet with an Earth-like redox state (with fO$_2$ $\sim$ 3.5 log$_{10}$ units above the iron-wüstite, IW buffer) and a Mercury-like planet (fO$_2$ $\sim$ 5 log$_{10}$ units below IW). We thus conclude that the HRCCS technique holds promise for cataloguing the diversity of redox states among the rocky exoplanetary population.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): exoplanets - planets and satellites: atmospheres

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Number of rows : 5
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 CoRoT-7b Pl 06 43 49.4690164104 -01 03 46.826642700           ~ 422 1
2 NAME LP 424-4b Pl 07 59 05.8395356736 +15 23 29.236065000           ~ 387 1
3 * rho01 Cnc PM* 08 52 35.8111044043 +28 19 50.954994470 7.45 6.82   5.4   K0IV-V 1223 1
4 * rho01 Cnc e Pl 08 52 35.8111044043 +28 19 50.954994470           ~ 682 1
5 HD 195689b Pl 20 31 26.3534153736 +39 56 19.773037500           ~ 358 0

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