Origin and loss of nebula-captured hydrogen envelopes from ‘sub’- to ‘super-Earths’ in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars
@article{Lammer2014OriginAL, title={Origin and loss of nebula-captured hydrogen envelopes from ‘sub’- to ‘super-Earths’ in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars}, author={H. Lammer and A. Stokl and N. Erkaev and E. Dorfi and P. Odert and M. Gudel and Yu. N. Kulikov and K. Kislyakova and M. Leitzinger}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2014}, volume={439}, pages={3225-3238} }
We investigate the origin and loss of captured hydrogen envelopes from protoplanets having masses in a range between ‘sub-Earth’-like bodies of 0.1 M⊕ and ‘super-Earths’ with 5 M⊕ in the habitable zone at 1 au of a Sun-like G star, assuming that their rocky cores had formed before the nebula gas dissipated. We model the gravitational attraction and accumulation of nebula gas around a planet’s core as a function of protoplanetary luminosity during accretion and calculate the resulting surface… CONTINUE READING
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