Exploring the Internal Structures of hot Jupiters using the GCM DYNAMICO: Deep, Hot, Adiabats as a Possible Solution to the Radius Inflation Problem - Archive ouverte HAL
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Exploring the Internal Structures of hot Jupiters using the GCM DYNAMICO: Deep, Hot, Adiabats as a Possible Solution to the Radius Inflation Problem

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The anomalously large radii of highly irradiated exoplanets have long remained a mystery to the Exoplanetary community, with many different solutions suggested and tested. These solutions have included tidal heating of the atmosphere, or ohmic heating from a strong magnetic field. Another solution was also suggested by Tremblin et Al. (2017): The inflated radii of highly irradiated exoplanets can be explained by the advection of potential temperature, via mass and longitudinal momentum conservation, leads to the deep atmosphere attaching to a hotter adiabat than would be suggested by 1D models, thus implying an inflated radius. In that paper this mechanism was tested using 2D steady-state models, and successfully reproduced an inflated HD209458b scenario. Here we extend this work to both the time-dependent and 3D regimes using the GCM Dynamico (Itself developed as a new dynamical core for LMD-Z, and verified against Hot Jupiter benchmarks as part of this work), exploring the evolution of the deep P-T profile, and the stability of a deep adiabat as the steady state solution. As a result of these calculations we confirm that a deep, hot, adiabat is both the target of long term evolution of the deep atmosphere, and is stable against typical forcing expected at deep pressures — we also note that this deep adiabat takes a very significant time to form from an isothermal initial condition (hence why it has not previously been seen in GCM simulations beyond a kink in the deep profile), and suggest that future GCM models should use an adiabatic profile to initialise the deep atmosphere. Taken as a whole, our results confirm the theory of Tremblin et Al. (2017): the inflated radii of highly irradiated exoplanets can be explained by connecting the atmosphere with a deep, hot, internal adiabat.
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hal-02298731 , version 1 (27-09-2019)

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Felix Sainsbury-Martinez, Pascal Wang, Sebastian Fromang, Pascal Tremblin, Thomas Dubos, et al.. Exploring the Internal Structures of hot Jupiters using the GCM DYNAMICO: Deep, Hot, Adiabats as a Possible Solution to the Radius Inflation Problem. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 2019, American Astronomical Society, Extreme Solar Systems 4, id. 326.01. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, No. 6, 51 (6). ⟨hal-02298731⟩
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