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A&A
Volume 688, August 2024
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Article Number | A45 | |
Number of page(s) | 14 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449832 | |
Published online | 02 August 2024 |
ExoplANETS-A: A virtual observatory database for host stars and planetary systems
The effect of XUV on planet atmospheres
1
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), ESAC Campus,
28692
Villanueva de la Cañada,
Madrid,
Spain
e-mail: mariamc@cab.inta-csic.es
2
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester
LE1 7RH,
UK
e-mail: sj423@leicester.ac.uk
3
Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM,
91191
Gif-sur-Yvette cedex,
France
4
Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna,
Türkenschanzstr. 17,
1180
Vienna,
Austria
5
Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University,
PO Box 9010,
6500
GL
Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
6
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research,
Niels Bohrweg 4,
2333
CA
Leiden,
The Netherlands
Received:
1
March
2024
Accepted:
21
May
2024
Context. ExoplANETS-A is an EU Horizon-2020 project with the primary objective of establishing new knowledge on exoplanet atmospheres. Intimately related to this topic is the study of the host stars’ radiative properties in order to understand the environment in which exoplanets lie.
Aims. The aim of this work is to exploit archived data from space-based observatories and other public sources to produce uniform sets of stellar data that can establish new insight into the influence of the host star on the planetary atmosphere. We have compiled X-ray and UV luminosities, which affect the formation and the atmospheric properties of the planets, and stellar parameters, which impact the retrieval process of the planetary atmosphere’s properties and its errors.
Methods. Our sample is formed of all transiting-exoplanet systems observed by HST or Spitzer. It includes 205 exoplanets and their 114 host stars. We have built a catalogue with information extracted from public, online archives augmented by quantities derived by the Exoplanets-A work. With this catalogue we have implemented an online database that also includes X-ray and OHP spectra and TESS light curves. In addition, we have developed a tool, exoVOSA, that is able to fit the spectral energy distribution of exoplanets.
Results. We give an example of using the database to study the effects of the host star high energy emission on the exoplanet atmosphere. The sample has a planet radius valley that is located at 1.8 R⊕, in agreement with previous studies. Multiplanet systems in our sample were used to test the photoevaporation model and we find that out of 14 systems, only one significant case poses a contradiction to it (K2-3). In this case, the inner planet of the system is above the radius gap while the two exterior planets are both below it. This indicates that some factor not included in the photoevaporation model has increased the mass-loss timescale of the inner planet. In summary, the exoplanet and stellar resources compiled and generated by ExoplANETS-A form a sound basis for current JWST observations and for future work in the era of Ariel.
Key words: catalogs / stars: activity / stars: coronae / planetary systems
© The Authors 2024
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