摘要
Atmosphericcompositionisanimportantindicatorofhabitabilityandlife.ThepresenceorabsenceofalargeexomoonaroundanEarth-sizeexoplanetcouldhaveimportantconsequencesforplanetclimatestability.ThusthedetectionofexomoonsandretrievalofinformationregardingatmosphericcompositionofEarth-sizeexoplanetsareimportantgoalsoffutureexoplanetobservations.Hereadataanalysismethodisdevelopedtoachievebothgoalssimultaneously,basedonreflectionspectraofexoplanet-exomoonsystems.Weshowthattheexistenceofexomoons,thesizeofexomoons,andtheconcentrationsofsomeatomicandmolecularspeciesintheatmospheresoftheirhostingEarth-likeexoplanetscanberetrievedwithhighlevelsofreliability.Inaddition,themethodcanprovidewell-constrainedfractionsofbasicsurfacetypesonthetargetsbecauseofthecharacteristicspectralfeaturesofatmosphericspeciesandsurfacetypesintheanalyzedspectralrange.
出版日期
2018年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)