Giant planet bulk and atmosphere metallicities Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Thorngren D.
  2. Fortney J.J.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Atmospheric characterization through spectroscopic analysis, an essential tool of modern exoplanet science, can benefit significantly from the context provided by the interior structure models. In particular, the planet's bulk metallicity, Zp, places an upper limit on the potential atmospheric metallicity. Here we construct interior structure models to derive Zp and atmospheric metallicity upper limits for 403 known transiting giant exoplanets. These limits are low enough that they can usefully inform atmosphere models. Additionally, we argue that comparing Zp to the observed atmospheric metallicity gives a useful measure of how well mixed metals are within the planet. This represents a new avenue for learning about planetary interiors. To aid in the future characterization of new planet discoveries we derive analytic prior predictions of atmosphere metallicity as a function of planet mass, and evaluate the effectiveness of our approach on Jupiter and Saturn. We include log-linear fits for approximating the metallicities of planets not in our catalog.

Keywords
  1. Astronomical models
  2. Stellar atmospheres
  3. Exoplanets
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJ...874L..31T
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/874/L31
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/874/L31
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18749031

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History

2020-10-09T09:03:47Z
Resource record created
2020-10-09T09:03:47Z
Created
2021-03-26T06:48:28Z
Updated

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