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تسجيل مستخدم جديدEccentricity Driven Climate Effects in the Kepler-1649 System
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The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets is uncovering increasingly diverse architectures. Of particular interest are those systems that contain exoplanets at a variety of star-planet separations, allowing direct comparison of exoplanet evolution (comparative planetology). The Kepler-1649 system contains two terrestrial planets similar both in size and insolation flux to Venus and Earth, although their eccentricities remain largely unconstrained. Here we present results of dynamical studies of the system and the potential effects on climate. The eccentricities of the Kepler-1649 system are poorly constrained, and we show that there are dynamically viable regions for further terrestrial planets in between the two known planets for a limited range of eccentricities. We investigate the effect of eccentricity of the outer planet on the dynamics of both planets and show that this results in high-frequency (1000-3000 year) eccentricity oscillations in long-term stable configurations. We calculate the resulting effect of these eccentricity variations on insolation flux and present the results of 3D climate simulations for the habitable zone planet. Our simulations demonstrate that, despite large eccentricity variations, the planet can maintain stable climates with relatively small temperature variations on the substellar hemisphere for a variety of initial climate configurations. Such systems thus provide key opportunities to explore alternative Venus/Earth climate evolution scenarios.
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