Hot super-Earths stripped by their host stars

M. S. Lundkvist; H. Kjeldsen; S. Albrecht; Guy Davies; S. Basu; D. Huber; A. B. Justesen; C. Karoff; V. Silva Aguirre; V. Van Eylen; C. Vang; T. Arentoft; T. Barclay; T. R. Bedding; T. L. Campante; W. J. Chaplin; J. Christensen-Dalsgaard; Y. P. Elsworth; R. L. Gilliland; R. Handberg; S. Hekker; S. D. Kawaler; M. N. Lund; T. S. Metcalfe; A. Miglio; J. F. Rowe; D. Stello; B. Tingley; T. R. White

doi:10.1038/ncomms11201

Hot super-Earths stripped by their host stars

M. S. Lundkvist, H. Kjeldsen, S. Albrecht, Guy Davies, S. Basu, D. Huber, A. B. Justesen, C. Karoff, V. Silva Aguirre, V. Van Eylen, C. Vang, T. Arentoft, T. Barclay, T. R. Bedding, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, Y. P. Elsworth, R. L. Gilliland, R. HandbergS. Hekker, S. D. Kawaler, M. N. Lund, T. S. Metcalfe, A. Miglio, J. F. Rowe, D. Stello, B. Tingley, T. R. White

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Simulations predict that hot super-Earth sized exoplanets can have their envelopes stripped by photo-evaporation, which would present itself as a lack of these exoplanets. However, this absence in the exoplanet population has escaped a firm detection. Here we demonstrate, using asteroseismology on a sample of exoplanets and exoplanet candidates observed during the Kepler mission that, while there is an abundance of super-Earth sized exoplanets with low incident fluxes, none are found with high incident fluxes. We do not find any exoplanets with radii between 2.2 and 3.8 Earth radii with incident flux above 650 times the incident flux on Earth. This gap in the population of exoplanets is explained by evaporation of volatile elements and thus supports the predictions. The confirmation of a hot-super-Earth desert caused by evaporation will add an important constraint on simulations of planetary systems, since they must be able to reproduce the dearth of close-in super-Earths.

Original language	English
Article number	11201
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11201
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2016

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Chaplin, B., Elsworth, Y. & Miglio, A.
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Lundkvist, M. S., Kjeldsen, H., Albrecht, S., Davies, G., Basu, S., Huber, D., Justesen, A. B., Karoff, C., Aguirre, V. S., Eylen, V. V., Vang, C., Arentoft, T., Barclay, T., Bedding, T. R., Campante, T. L., Chaplin, W. J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Elsworth, Y. P., Gilliland, R. L., ... White, T. R. (2016). Hot super-Earths stripped by their host stars. Nature Communications, 7, Article 11201. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11201

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Hot super-Earths stripped by their host stars

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