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Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze: Effect of Creation, Growth, and Settling of Haze Particles. II. Dependence on UV Irradiation Intensity, Metallicity, C/O Ratio, Eddy Diffusion Coefficient, and Temperature
2019 The Astrophysical Journal 877 109.
Caption: Figure 3.
Photochemical properties of the atmosphere for the fiducial case. (a) Vertical distributions of gaseous species in photochemical equilibrium (solid line). The filled circles represent the thermochemical equilibrium values at the lower boundary. For reference, the dashed lines show the abundances in thermochemical equilibrium, where the eddy diffusion transport is also ignored. (b) Vertical profile of the photodissociation rate of each species, namely, the number of molecules that photodissociate per unit volume and unit time. Note that panel (a) is basically the same as Figure 2 of Paper I with the differences being in the value of kv and kth, the integration method for the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium, and the resolution of the input stellar spectrum only.
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