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Solar Wind-like Outflows from PlanetaryAtmospheres
Hans De SterckDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Feng TianNASA Postdoctoral Program and HAO/NCAR, USA
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Parker Solar Wind
• heat from sun core accelerates radial flow from subsonic tosupersonic
• bow shock at the earth
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transonic radial outflow solution of Eulerequations of gas dynamics
subsonic ⇒|⇐ supersonic
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Supersonic gas escape from extrasolar planets
• http://exoplanet.eu• 173 extrasolar planets known, as of June 2006• 209 extrasolar planets known, as of November 2006• 21 multiple planet systems
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Supersonic gas escape from extrasolar planets
• many exoplanets are gas giants (“hot Jupiters”)• many orbit very close to star (~0.05 AU)• hypothesis: strong irradiation leads to supersonic
hydrogen escape
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example: HD209458 (Vidal-Madjar 2003)
• 0.67 Jupiter masses, 0.05 AU, transiting• hydrogen atmosphere and escape observed• question: what is the mass loss rate? long-time
stability of the planet? ⇒ solve Euler equations!
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Euler equations of gas dynamics
• find s.t.
• nonlinear system ofPDEs
• conservation of mass,momentum, energy
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transonic radial outflow solution: problemdefinition
• Euler equations: 3 equationsin three variables
• lower boundary at planetsurface: subsonic, needs twoboundary conditions: densityand pressure
• upper boundary: supersonic,needs no boundaryconditions (all informationflows out)
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numerical method
• Euler Equations are conservation law
• solving the steady part alone is too hard (it is notknown how to do that... more later!)
• engineers developed time-marching methods tosteady state
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numerical method
• hyperbolic conservation law
• use Computational Fluid Dynamics methods: finitevolume method
• very slow convergence to steady state... (more later!)
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Simulations of planet atmosphere
• n=50 points in space• needs 1500 steps to converge
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results for 1D exoplanet simulations
• HD209458b:- lower boundary conditions ρ=7.10-9 g/cm-3
and T=750K- extent of atmosphere, outflow velocity, and
mass flux consistent with observations(Vidal-Madjar 2003)
- 1% mass loss in 12 billion years ⇒HD209458b is stable
• Tian, Toon, Pavlov, and De Sterck,Astrophysical Journal 621, 1049-1060, 2005
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Can we solve the steady Euler equations fasterand more accurrately?
• yes!
• new approach: solve the steady equations directly
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Solving the steady ODE system is hard...
• consider toy problem (isothermal Parker model): single ODE
• normally need 1 boundary condition to determine solution• transonic solution: no boundary condition needed!
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Solving the steady ODE system is hard...
• solving ODE from the left does not work...
• but... integrating outward from the critical point doeswork!!!
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Direct calculation of steady solution
1. Write as dynamical system...
2. find critical point
3. integrate outward from critical point
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For the Full Euler Equations
• problem: there are many possible critical points!
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New algorithm for calculating steady transonicEuler outflows
guess initial criticalpoint
1. use adaptive ODEintegrator to findtrajectory
2. modify guess forcritical pointdepending ondeviation fromdesired inflowboundaryconditions (Newtonmethod)
3. repeat
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2D numerical models (Scott Rostrup)
• Euler equations in multiple dimensions
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2D Simulations
• assume rotational symmetryabout the y axis
⇒ allows for non-uniformheating
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3D numerical models (Paul Ullrich)
• we want to include effects of planetaryrotation
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Primordial soup as the origin of life on Earth
•Stanley Miller (1953): formation ofprebiotic molecules in a CH4-NH3rich environment with electricdischarge
-Problem: CH4-NH3 atmosphereunlikely
•later experiments show thatprebiotic molecules can be formedefficiently in a hydrogen-richenvironment•alternative sources of organics:hydrothermal system, cometdelivery
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Supersonic gas escape from Early Earth
• there is nosupersonichydrodynamicescape frompresent-dayEarth
• exo-basetemperature ishigh:collisional,thermalescapedominates
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hydrogen content in Early Earth atmosphere
• hydrogen content: balance between volcanicoutgassing and escape from atmosphere
• existing theory: static atmosphere with hightemperature at top ⇒ fast thermal escape ⇒hydrogen content was very low
• formation of prebiotic molecules in ahydrogen-rich atmosphere was thusdiscarded as a theory
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new theory: hydrogen content in Early Earthatmosphere
• our results: hydrogen escape was probablysupersonic, with low temperature at top (no thermalescape), and total escape rates were low
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hydrogen content in Early Earth atmosphere
• our results: hydrogen concentration in theatmosphere of Early Earth could have beenas high as 30%
• formation of prebiotic molecules in earlyEarth’s atmosphere could have been efficient⇒ primordial soup on early Earth is possible
• no need for hydrothermal vents, cometarydelivery
• Tian, Toon, Pavlov, and De Sterck, Science308, 1014-1017, 2005