Hot Jupiters are asynchronous rotators
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| author | Wazny, Marek Menou, Kristen |
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| contents | Hot Jupiters are typically assumed to be synchronously rotating, from tidal locking. Their thermally-driven atmospheric winds experience Lorentz drag on the planetary magnetic field anchored at depth. We find that the magnetic torque does not integrate to zero over the entire atmosphere. The resulting angular momentum feedback on the bulk interior can thus drive the planet away from synchronous rotation. Using a toy tidal-ohmic model and atmospheric GCM outputs for HD189733b, HD209458b and Kepler7b, we establish that off-synchronous rotation can be substantial at tidal-ohmic equilibrium for sufficiently hot and/or magnetized hot Jupiters. Potential consequences of asynchronous rotation for hot Jupiter phenomenology motivate follow-up work on the tidal-ohmic scenario with approaches that go beyond our toy model. |
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| spellingShingle | Hot Jupiters are asynchronous rotators Wazny, Marek Menou, Kristen Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Hot Jupiters are typically assumed to be synchronously rotating, from tidal locking. Their thermally-driven atmospheric winds experience Lorentz drag on the planetary magnetic field anchored at depth. We find that the magnetic torque does not integrate to zero over the entire atmosphere. The resulting angular momentum feedback on the bulk interior can thus drive the planet away from synchronous rotation. Using a toy tidal-ohmic model and atmospheric GCM outputs for HD189733b, HD209458b and Kepler7b, we establish that off-synchronous rotation can be substantial at tidal-ohmic equilibrium for sufficiently hot and/or magnetized hot Jupiters. Potential consequences of asynchronous rotation for hot Jupiter phenomenology motivate follow-up work on the tidal-ohmic scenario with approaches that go beyond our toy model. |
| title | Hot Jupiters are asynchronous rotators |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07651 |