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On the (anticipated) diversity of terrestrial planet atmospheres

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On our way toward the characterization of smaller and more temperate planets, missions dedicated to the spectroscopic observation of exoplanets will teach us about the wide diversity of classes of planetary atmospheres, many of them probably having no equivalent in the Solar System. But what kind of atmospheres can we expect? To start answering this question, many theoretical studies have tried to understand and model the various processes controlling the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres, with some success in the Solar System. Here, we shortly review these processes and we try to give an idea of the various type of atmospheres that these processes can create. As will be made clear, current atmosphere evolution models have many shortcomings yet, and need heavy calibrations. With that in mind, we will thus discuss how observations with a mission similar to EChO would help us unravel the link between a planet’s environment and its atmosphere.

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  1. There is eventually a decrease in the activity for the coolest M dwarfs (around M8) and brown dwarfs as the lower atmospheric temperatures, hence ionization fractions, decrease the coupling between the magnetic field and the flow [35].

  2. Although this limit is not that well defined when the water inventory is very limited [2, 27].

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Leconte, J., Forget, F. & Lammer, H. On the (anticipated) diversity of terrestrial planet atmospheres. Exp Astron 40, 449–467 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-014-9403-4

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