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arxiv: 1907.05088 · v1 · submitted 2019-07-11 · 🌌 astro-ph.EP

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Detecting volcanically produced tori along orbits of exoplanets using UV spectroscopy

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We suggest to use the Hubble Space Telescople (HST) follow-up observations of the TESS targets for detecting possible plasma tori along the orbits of exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs. The source of the torus could be planetary volcanic activity due to tidal or electromagnetic induction heating. Fast losses to space for planets orbiting these active stars can lead to the lost material forming a torus along the planetary orbit, similar to the Io plasma torus. We show that such torus would be potentially detectable by the HST in the UV.

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