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According to the compuations results obtained by Bisikalo et al. (2013) for the gas-dynamical effect of stellar winds on exoplanet atmospheres, three types of gaseous envelopes can form around hot Jupiters: closed, quasi-closed, and open. The type of envelope that forms depends on the position of the frontal collision point (where the dynamical pressure of the wind is equal to the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere) relative to the Roche-lobe boundaries. Closed envelopes are formed around planets whose atmospheres lie completely within their Roche lobes. If the frontal collision point is located outside the Roche lobe, the atmospheric material begins to flow out through the Lagrangian points L1 and L2, which can result in the formation of quasi-closed (if the dynamical pressure of the stellar wind stops the outflow through L1) or open gaseous envelopes. The example of the typical hot Jupiter HD 209458b is considered for four sets of atmospheric parameters, to determine the mass-loss rates for the different types of envelopes arising with these parameters. The mass-loss rates based on the modeling results were estimated to be Ṁ ≤ 109 g/s for a closed atmosphere, Ṁ ≃ 3 × 109 g/s for a quasi-closed atmosphere, and Ṁ ≃ 3 × 1010 g/s for an open atmosphere. The matter in the closed and quasi-closed atmospheres flows out mainly through L2, and the matter in open envelopes primarily through L1.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Cherenkov, D.V. Bisikalo, P.V. Kaigorodov, 2014, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, Vol. 91, No. 10, pp. 775–784.
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Cherenkov, A.A., Bisikalo, D.V. & Kaigorodov, P.V. Mass-loss rates of “hot-Jupiter” exoplanets with various types of gaseous envelopes. Astron. Rep. 58, 679–687 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772914100047
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