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Aeronomy of Extra-Solar Giant Planets

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Comparative Aeronomy

Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI ((SSSI,volume 29))

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The intense stellar UV radiation field incident upon extra-solar giant planets causes profound changes to their upper atmospheres. Upper atmospheric temperatures can be tens of thousands of kelvins, causing thermal dissociation of H2 to H. The stellar ionizing flux converts H to H+. The high temperatures also drive large escape rates of H, but for all but the planets with the smallest orbits, this flux is not large enough to affect planet evolution. The escape rate is large enough to drag off heavier atoms such as C and O. For very small orbits, when the hill sphere is inside the atmosphere, escape is unfettered and can affect planet evolution.

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  1. Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Roger Yelle

  2. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstraße 6, 8042, Graz, Austria

    Helmut Lammer

  3. Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Wing-Huen Ip

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Yelle, R., Lammer, H., Ip, WH. (2008). Aeronomy of Extra-Solar Giant Planets. In: Nagy, A.F., Balogh, A., Cravens, T.E., Mendillo, M., Mueller-Wodarg, I. (eds) Comparative Aeronomy. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 29. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87825-6_12

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