Linking the evolution of terrestrial interiors and an early outgassed atmosphere to astrophysical observations

Abstract

A terrestrial planet is molten during formation and may remain so if subject to intense insolation or tidal forces. Observations continue to favour the detection and characterisation of hot planets, potentially with large outgassed atmospheres. We aim to determine the radius of hot Earth-like planets with large outgassed atmospheres and explore differences between molten and solid silicate planets and their influence on the mass-radius relationship and transmission and emission spectra. An interior-atmosphere model, combined with static structure calculations, tracks the evolving radius of a rocky mantle that is outgassing CO${}_2$ and H${}_2$O. Synthetic emission and transmission spectra are generated for CO${}_2$ and H${}_2$O dominated atmospheres. Atmospheres dominated by CO${}_2$ suppress the outgassing of H${}_2$O to a greater extent than previously realised, as previous studies have applied an erroneous relationship between volatile mass and partial pressure. We therefore predict more H${}_2$O can be retained by the interior during the later stages of magma ocean crystallisation. Furthermore, formation of a lid at the surface can tie outgassing of H${}_2$O to the efficiency of heat transport through the lid, rather than the atmosphere's radiative timescale. Contraction of the mantle as it solidifies gives $\sim 5\%$ radius decrease, which can partly be offset by addition of a relatively light species to the atmosphere. We conclude that a molten silicate mantle can increase the radius of a terrestrial planet by around $5\%$ compared to its solid counterpart, or equivalently account for a $13\%$ decrease in bulk density. An outgassing atmosphere can perturb the total radius according to its speciation. Atmospheres of terrestrial planets around M-stars that are dominated by CO${}_2$ or H${}_2$O can be distinguished by observing facilities with extended wavelength coverage (e.g., JWST).

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