The climates and thermal emission spectra of prime nearby temperate rocky exoplanet targets

Abstract

Over the course of the past decade, advances in the radial velocity and transit techniques have enabled the detection of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. Future observations with novel methods are required to characterize this sample of planets, especially those that are non-transiting. One proposed method is the Planetary Infrared Excess (PIE) technique, which would enable the characterization of non-transiting planets by measuring the excess infrared flux from the planet relative to the star's spectral energy distribution. In this work, we predict the efficacy of future observations using the PIE technique by potential future observatories such as the MIRECLE mission concept. To do so, we conduct a broad suite of 21 General Circulation Model (GCM) simulations with ExoCAM of seven nearby habitable zone targets for three choices of atmospheric composition with varying partial pressure of CO${}_2$. We then construct thermal phase curves and emission spectra by post-processing our ExoCAM GCM simulations with the Planetary Spectrum Generator (PSG). We find that all cases have distinguishable carbon dioxide and water features assuming a 90${}^{\circ }$ orbital inclination. Notably, we predict that CO${}_2$ is potentially detectable at 15 $\mu \mathrm{m}$ with MIRECLE for at least four nearby known non-transiting rocky planet candidate targets in the habitable zone: Proxima Cenaturi b, GJ 1061 d, GJ 1002 b, and Teegarden's Star c. Our ExoCAM GCMs and PSG post-processing demonstrate the potential to observationally characterize nearby non-transiting rocky planets and better constrain the potential for habitability in our Solar neighborhood.

Accepted at ApJ, 21 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables

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