Climate modelling of hypothetical moon-moons in the Kepler-1625b system

Status Report From: arXiv.org e-Print archive

Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Duncan Forgan

(Submitted on 30 Oct 2018)

If the exomoon candidate orbiting Kepler-1625b truly exists, it is much more massive than the moons observed in the Solar system (Teachey et al. 2017; Teachey & Kipping 2018). This exomoon would be sufficiently large to stably host its own satellite. This has sparked discussion of a new category of celestial object - a moon-moon (Forgan 2018) or submoon (Kollmeier & Raymond 2018). In this Note, I describe initial results of climate modelling of a hypothetical moon-moon in the Kepler-1625b system, calculated using the OBERON code, which jointly computes 1D latitudinal energy balance models for individual worlds alongside the dynamical evolution of the system they inhabit (Forgan 2016a, DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.61236). Both the code and the parameter files used in these runs are available at github.com/dh4gan/oberon.



Comments: Published as an AAS Research Note: 3 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

Cite as: arXiv:1810.12687 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:1810.12687v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)

Submission history

From: Duncan Forgan Dr

[v1] Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:01:08 UTC (181 KB)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12687



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