Volatile-rich earth-mass planets in the habitable zone

被引:132
作者
Kuchner, MJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
基金
美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
astrobiology; planetary systems;
D O I
10.1086/378397
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A small planet is not necessarily a terrestrial planet. Planets that form beyond the snow line with too little mass to seed rapid gas accretion (less than or similar to 10(+)) should be rich in volatile ices like H2O and NH3. Some of these planets should migrate inward by interacting with a circumstellar disk or with other planets. Such objects can retain their volatiles for billions of years or longer at similar to 1 AU as their thick steam atmospheres undergo slow hydrodynamic escape. These objects could appear in future surveys for extrasolar Earth analogs.
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页码:L105 / L108
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