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Lecture IV: Terrestrial Planets 1.From Lecture III: Atmospheres 2.Earth as a planet: interior & tectonics. 3.Dynamics of the mantle 4.Modeling terrestrial planets
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Observations for Reflected Light Sudarsky Planet types –I : Ammonia Clouds –II : Water Clouds –III : Clear –IV : Alkali Metal –V : Silicate Clouds Predicted Albedos: –IV : 0.03 –V : 0.50 Sudarsky et al. 2000 Picture of class IV planet generated using Celestia Software
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Lunar Transit of Earth Compare the albedo of the Moon to the Earth’s features, e.g., the Sahara desert. NASA EPOXI spacecraft (2008)
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HD 209458b: Albedos New upper limit on A g Rowe et al.(2006) (Rowe et al. 2008)
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Models Constraints 2004 1 sigma limit – or - ~2005 3 sigma limit Spitzer Limit Different atmospheres blackbody model Rowe et al. 2006 Rowe et al. (in prep) best fit Equilibrium Temperature
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The Close-in Extrasolar Giant Planets Type and size of condensate is important Possibly large reflected light in the optical Thermal emission in the infrared Seager & Sasselov 2000
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Scattered Light Need to consider: phase function multiple scattering
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Scattering Phase Functions and Polar Plots Seager, Whitney, & Sasselov 2000 Forward throwing & “glory” MgSiO 3 (solid), Al 2 O 3 (dashed), and Fe(s)
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Mission Microvariability and Oscillations of STars / Microvariabilité et Oscillations STellaire First space satellite dedicated to stellar seismology Small optical telescope & ultraprecise photometer goal: ~few ppm = few micromag MOST at a glance Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
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circular polar orbit altitude h = 820 km period P = 101 min inclination i = 98.6º Sun-synchronous stays over terminator CVZ ~ 54° wide -18º < Decl. < +36º stars visible for up to 8 wks Ground station network Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna MOST at a glance MOST orbit normal vector to Sun CVZ = Continuous Viewing Zone Orbit
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Lightcurve Model for HD 209458b Relative depths –transit: 2% –eclipse: 0.005% Duration –3 hours Phase changes of planet Phase Relative Flux Eclipse Transit
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Lecture IV: Terrestrial Planets 1.Earth as a planet: interior & tectonics. 2.Dynamics of the mantle 3.Modeling terrestrial planets
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Earth’s interior PREM = Preliminary Reference Earth Model
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Earth as a planet - tectonics
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Earth - plate collision & subduction Kustowski et al.(2006) Evidence from seismic tomography for the subduction of the plate under Japan. Variations in shear-wave velocity: v S /v S
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Earth - the Core-Mantle Boundary
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Earth mantle convection simulation Labrosse & Sotin (2002)
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Earth interior - mantle plumes
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Earth interior - cooling
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Super-Earths
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Super-Earths: planets in the mass range of ~1 to 10 M E 1.Mass range is now somewhat arbitrary Upper range corresponds approx to a core that can accrete H 2 gas from the disk. 2.Two generic families - depending on H 2 O content. 3.No such planets in our Solar System. (Discussed at Nantes Workshop - June 16-18, 2008)
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Formation and survival of large terrestrial planets: Interiors of Super-Earths Ida & Lin (2004) All evidence is that they should be around:
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The “Tree of super-Earths” Super-Earths Mini-Neptunes Ocean Planets / Aqua Planets Terrestrial Planets / Dry, Rocky Planets Fe -rich mantle ? H 2 O -rich mantle ? ? ? ?
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Super-Earth Model Input: M, P surf, T surf, guess R, g surf, composition Output: R, ρ(r), P(r), g(r), m(r), phase transitions, D,...
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Interior Models: the Mass Dependence Zero-temperature spheres Zapolsky & Salpeter (1969); Stevenson (1982); Fortney et al. (2007); Seager et al. (2007) (GJ 436b: Gillon et al. 2007)
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Interior Structure of Super-Earths Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2006)
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Interior Structure: Radius & Composition Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2007)
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Phase Diagram of H 2 O
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Super-Earths Mass range: ~1 - 10 Earth mass “Confusion region”
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‘Toblerone’ Diagram A tool to infer which compositions fit M and R with uncertainties M±ΔMM±ΔM R±ΔRR±ΔR Valencia et al. 2007b
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Degeneracy is important Si/Fe = 0.6 Si/H 2 O = 0.23 RPRP
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Models vs. Kepler observations Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2007)
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Earth is a ‘perovskite’ planet Tiny amount of post-perovskite at the CMB (the thin D” region) (Fe, Mg) SiO 3 - enstatite - perovskite (Pv) 40% of Earth is Pv ! - post-perovskite (pPv) Pv pPv at ~125 GPa Super-Earths are ‘post-perovskite’ planets.
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Super-Earths as post-Perovskite planets T-P curves for 7.5 M E models < Note: all mantles have pressures that reach 1000 GPa (Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell 2007)
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Super-Earths: very high pressures
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Post-Perovskite
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Super-Earths as post-Perovskite planets (Oganov 2006) Does post-perovskite incorporate more Fe ? Is there a post-post perovskite, e.g. like GGG ? Are there analogs to the Pv lower mantle ‘oxygen pump’ ? Pv pPv
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Post- Post-Perovskite ? Expectation that all (Si, Al, Mg, Fe) oxides will collapse to an O 12 perovskite structure, like Gd 3 Ga 5 O 12 (GGG) does at >120 GPa. < above 150 GPa becomes less compressible than diamond ! (Mashimo, Nellis, et al. 2006)
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Z-Beamlet target chamber of 10TWcm -2 setup at SNL (J.Remo, S.Jacobsen, M.Petaev, DDS) (2008) New high-P experiments needed
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T-P: Experimental Results (Remo et al. 2008)
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We measure 10-50x Fe, Cr, Al -enrichments of the silicate melts (Rightley et al. 1996) Strong mixing occurs due to a Richtmeyer-Meshkov instability behind the shock - is it scalable & relevant to giant impacts ?
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Interiors of Super-Earths Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2006) Earth-like Ocean Planet
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Mass-Radius relations for 11 different mineral compositions (Earth-like): Interiors of Super-Earths Valencia, O’Connell, Sasselov (2005) 1M E 2M E 5M E 10M E
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Theoretical Error Budget: Planet Radius Errors: New high-P phases, e.g. ice-XI: -0.4% EOS extrapolations (V vs. BM): +0.9% Iron core alloys (Fe vs. FeS): -0.8% Viscosity, f(T ) vs. const.: +0.2% Overall the uncertainties are below 2% (at least, that’s what is known now)
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Interior Structure of GJ 876d 20,000 12,000 4,000 2,0006,00010,000 RADIUS (km) DENSITY (kg/m 3 ) Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2006) 7.5 M E
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Interior Structure of GJ 876d Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2006)
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What would we look for and could we measure it ? Could we measure the difference? - YES: We need at least 5% in Radius, and at least 10% in Mass. Work on tables for use with Kepler underway - masses 0.4 to 15 M E
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Degeneracy - solution: samples max radius min radius H2OH2O All you need to constrain planet formation models! - sample with radii to 5% and masses to 10%.
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Dry vs. Ocean super-Earths Valencia, Sasselov, O’Connell (2007)
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