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The paper argues that photochemical SO2 in rocky exoplanet atmospheres can reveal the mantle's redox state.

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load-bearing objection The redox-to-SO2 mapping is a solid, useful model result, but the JWST detectability claim leans on a high sulfur inventory and needs a sensitivity analysis before it holds. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2607.15204 v1 pith:HRTI2SDF submitted 2026-07-16 astro-ph.EP physics.geo-ph

Sulfur photochemistry observationally traces mantle redox states of rocky planets

Ioannis Panagiotou , Tim Lichtenberg , Shang-Min Tsai , Harrison Nicholls This is my paper
classification astro-ph.EP physics.geo-ph
keywords rocky exoplanet atmospheressulfur photochemistrymantle redox stateSO2 absorptionsecondary atmospheresphotochemical disequilibriummagma ocean outgassinginfrared emission spectra
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The paper tries to establish that sulfur photochemistry, not just volcanic outgassing, controls the sulfur gases seen in rocky exoplanet atmospheres, and that this makes the mantle's oxidation state observable. By coupling a magma-ocean interior-atmosphere evolution model to chemical-kinetics calculations, it runs a grid of Earth-sized planets with reduced to oxidized mantles, irradiation from 0.1 to 1000 times Earth's, and solar versus M-dwarf spectra. The central result is that photochemical production of SO2 from H2S becomes strongest at intermediate-to-oxidized mantle redox states, carving absorption features at 4, 7.3, and 8.7 micrometers that should be detectable with current space-based infrared telescopes. If correct, astronomers can use SO2 as a probe of deep interior redox, complementing CO/CO2 ratios that photochemistry can bias.

Core claim

The central claim is that sulfur photochemistry leaves an observable fingerprint of mantle redox. When the mantle sits near or above the iron-wüstite buffer and the planet receives irradiation comparable to 100 times Earth's, photochemistry converts outgassed H2S into SO2 in the upper atmosphere, suppressing the planet-star emission contrast at 4 micrometers from 80 to 25 ppm, and at 7.3 and 8.7 micrometers from roughly 175 to 75 ppm and 225 to 125 ppm, respectively. The equilibrium abundance of SO2 already rises with mantle oxidation, and the photochemical enhancement peaks at intermediate redox states before relaxing back to the outgassed signature at the most oxidized state. The paper con

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the photochemical sulfur oxidation chain. Outgassed H2S is rapidly photolyzed by stellar ultraviolet light into SH and atomic sulfur, H2O photolysis supplies OH radicals, and these oxidize sulfur into SO2, S2, and eventually S8. The identity that carries the argument is the ratio of SO2 to H2S and CS2 in the photosphere, which the paper maps onto five redox and irradiation regimes. Observability works because SO2 has strong absorption at 4, 7.3, and 8.7 micrometers where the emission spectrum is otherwise controlled by H2O and CO2, so photochemical SO2 shifts the photosphere to cooler, higher layers and deepens those features.

Load-bearing premise

The predictions depend on starting with a sulfur-rich, water-rich volatile inventory (an adopted S/H of 2.0 and five Earth oceans of hydrogen), and the predicted SO2 signals shrink almost proportionally if real rocky exoplanets hold less sulfur.

What would settle it

A high-signal-to-noise secondary-eclipse spectrum of a rocky planet receiving roughly 100 times Earth's instellation, with an independently inferred intermediate mantle redox state, that shows no SO2 absorption at 4, 7.3, or 8.7 micrometers at the 20-30 ppm level would contradict the photochemical-enhancement prediction.

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If this is right

  • Bulk atmospheric composition remains controlled by mantle redox and outgassing history, so classifying atmospheres into reduced, intermediate, and oxidized is robust to disequilibrium chemistry.
  • Photochemical SO2 enhancement is not monotonic: it peaks at intermediate redox states, meaning a strong 4 micrometer feature implies an oxidized but not extremely oxidized mantle.
  • Retrieval models that assume thermochemical equilibrium may misattribute photochemical SO2 features to different elemental abundances or to a more oxidized interior.
  • Stellar spectral type matters: stronger M-dwarf XUV irradiation triggers more photodissociation at lower bolometric flux, making M-dwarf planets the most promising targets for sulfur-based redox diagnostics.
  • The relative behavior of SO2, H2S, and CS2 in the photosphere defines distinct regimes that can be used to infer mantle redox even before high-resolution spectra are available.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The predicted 4, 7.3, and 8.7 micrometer contrasts scale directly with the assumed sulfur inventory; if typical rocky exoplanets carry substantially less sulfur than the adopted S/H = 2.0 water-rich budget, the signals could fall below 20 ppm and escape current detection.
  • The same mechanism suggests a time-varying diagnostic: a young magma-ocean planet with ongoing crystallization may show a temporary SO2 peak before solidification changes outgassing, so multi-epoch observations could trace interior evolution, not just a static redox state.
  • The S8 pool seen at oxidized states could condense into sulfur aerosols, which would scatter ultraviolet and visible light and potentially mute the very SO2 bands being used as tracers; coupling aerosol microphysics to these chemistry outputs is a natural next test.
  • The photospheric SO2/H2S and SO2/CS2 regimes offer a testable classification scheme for known lava worlds: measure their emitted sulfur ratios and compare with redox states inferred from mass-radius and outgassing history.

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. This manuscript couples the PROTEUS interior–atmosphere evolution code to FastChem and VULCAN in a post-processing mode to ask whether photochemical disequilibrium modifies the outgassed atmospheres of Earth-sized rocky exoplanets and whether sulfur species can serve as observational tracers of mantle redox. A 50-model grid spans log fO2 = IW-4 to IW+4, instellation 0.1–1000 S⊕, and solar vs M-dwarf (GJ 1132) spectra. Three chemical characterisations are compared: thermochemical equilibrium, mixing-only vertical transport, and mixing+photochemistry. The central results are that bulk composition remains controlled by mantle redox and outgassing history, that photochemistry mainly reprocesses the upper atmosphere and enhances SO2 in intermediate-to-oxidised cases, and that synthetic emission spectra for 100 S⊕ M-dwarf cases show SO2 absorption at 4, 7.3, and 8.7 μm with contrasts of ~30–100 ppm, claimed to be JWST-detectable.

Significance. If correct, the paper's diagnostic maps (Fig. 7, Table 2) and feature predictions give a concrete route from a JWST spectrum to the mantle redox state of a rocky exoplanet. The study is a forward calculation, not a retrieval, so there is no circularity in the inference. The bulk-composition conclusion is well supported by the grid, and the decision to separate equilibrium, mixing, and photochemical contributions is a clear strength. The main weakness is that the JWST-detectability claim rests on a single volatile inventory (S/H=2.0) without sensitivity analysis, and the spectral calculations ignore radiative feedback, escape, and haze microphysics, as the authors acknowledge. I therefore view the work as promising but not yet quantitatively conclusive.

major comments (4)
  1. [§2.1, §4.4] The initial inventory in §2.1 fixes S/H=2.0, C/H=1.0, N/H=0.5, and H=5 Earth oceans. §4.4 acknowledges that the inventory affects outgassing and composition, but no sensitivity is quantified. The photochemical SO2 in Fig. 8 is fed by outgassed H2S, so the 4/7.3/8.7 μm contrasts should scale roughly linearly with S/H. If a 'typical' rocky exoplanet has S/H several times lower (bulk-Earth values are plausibly 0.1–0.5× solar while S/H=2.0 is at the high end), the 30–100 ppm contrasts drop to ~6–25 ppm, below the NIRSpec noise floor cited in §4.2. The general title/abstract claim therefore needs a S/H sensitivity series (e.g., S/H=0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0) or an explicit narrowing of the claim to sulfur-enriched, water-rich planets.
  2. [§3.2, §4.4] Atmospheric escape is listed as not enabled (§2.1) and is acknowledged in §4.4, but the most irradiated cases show H volume mixing ratios reaching 10^-1 in the upper atmosphere (Fig. 5c,f). For an Earth-sized planet, escape of this H can remove the dominant reducing species and alter the redox balance of the residual atmosphere. Since one of the paper's conclusions is that bulk composition remains controlled by mantle redox even when disequilibrium is included, a rough escape-flux vs outgassing-flux comparison for 100–1000 S⊕ cases is needed. Without it, the conclusion may only hold for planets with negligible escape.
  3. [§2.2, §4.3] The chemistry is post-processed on a pressure–temperature profile that is fixed by the PROTEUS/AGNI evolution without photochemical feedback. The synthetic spectra in Fig. 8 therefore use a thermal structure that does not react to the photochemically enhanced SO2 or to potential haze precursors. The paper itself notes in §4.3 that hazes would modify the P-T profile. For the quantitative feature depths (80→25 ppm, 175→75 ppm, 225→125 ppm), this is a missing feedback: at least one iterated or self-consistent case (e.g., 100 S⊕ M-dwarf, IW+0) would demonstrate that the feature contrasts are not an artifact of the one-way coupling.
  4. [§4.2] The JWST-detectability assessment is made by comparing the model feature depths to literature noise values for different targets (Scarsdale et al. 2024; Fisher et al. 2025; Xue et al. 2025). These quoted uncertainties depend on stellar brightness, number of visits, instrument mode, and reduction; they are not noise simulations for the GJ 1132-like targets used in Fig. 8. The statement in the abstract/conclusions that the signatures 'are detectable with JWST' is therefore stronger than the evidence. A simple target-specific SNR estimate (or an explicit statement of assumed exposure time and stellar J-band magnitude) is needed to support the detectability claim.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§2.2, Eq. (1)] The molecular diffusion term contains a malformed expression 'n_i(1/H_i,+, 1+α_T/T, dT/dz)'; this should be typeset as the standard thermal-diffusion term. As written it is unreadable.
  2. [Figs. 5 and 6] 'Standard deviation divided by the number of points' is the standard error of the mean, not the standard deviation; the captions should be corrected.
  3. [Fig. 1 caption] The phrase 'which only shows the result for the latter disequilibrium case' is confusing because the text mentions 3 versions of the figure; clarify whether the displayed panel is only the photochemistry+mixing version.
  4. [§3.2, §4.4] 'The extend of its effect' should be 'the extent'; 'the outgassed timescale' should be 'the outgassing timescale'.
  5. [General] The paper lacks a code/data availability statement. For reproducibility, provide access to PROTEUS, VULCAN inputs, and the grid outputs.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the SO2 observability predictions are forward-model outputs from an independent kinetics network, not reductions of their inputs.

full rationale

The paper's central chain is PROTEUS interior-atmosphere evolution -> outgassed C-H-N-O-S inventory -> FastChem equilibrium / VULCAN disequilibrium chemistry -> AGNI synthetic spectra. Nothing in the derivation fits abundances or spectral contrasts to the 4, 7.3, or 8.7 micron features that are then 'predicted': mantle fO2 controls outgassed speciation through literature phase-equilibria and the IW buffer, and photochemical SO2 enhancement emerges from the VULCAN C-H-N-O-S network (photolysis rates in Eq. 2; transport in Eq. 1) rather than being imposed. The self-citations (PROTEUS, AGNI, VULCAN, Lichtenberg 2021) are code/framework papers or evolutionary-context papers; they are not invoked as a uniqueness theorem and they provide the operational models, which are publicly available and independently described. The headline detectability numbers do depend on the assumed S/H=2.0 volatile inventory (Sec. 2.1), and Sec. 4.4 explicitly acknowledges that the initial volatile inventory affects evolution and outgassing; that is a robustness/sensitivity gap, not circularity, because the assumed inventory is an input rather than an output of the claimed derivation. No circular step meeting the required evidence standard was found.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 6 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard magma-ocean geochemistry and atmospheric kinetics, plus several domain assumptions: a fixed volatile inventory, no escape, 1D transport, and one-way coupling of photochemistry to the climate. These are clearly stated in the text, but the last two could quantitatively change the predicted spectral signatures if relaxed.

free parameters (2)
  • Initial volatile inventory = C/H=1.0, N/H=0.5, S/H=2.0, H=5 Earth oceans
    Chosen by hand in Sec. 2.1 as 'Earth-like, water-rich'. The absolute SO2 abundances and feature depths scale with the sulfur budget; no sensitivity study is presented.
  • Mantle composition = pure MgSiO3
    Adopted equation of state in SPIDER (Sec. 2.1); affects outgassing and interior evolution.
axioms (6)
  • domain assumption Oxygen fugacity of the mantle is controlled by the iron-wüstite buffer and sets volatile speciation
    Sec. 2.1: 'the abundance of oxygen is controlled by the iron-wüstite buffer IW reaction... as a function of temperature'. This is a standard geochemical assumption for magma oceans.
  • domain assumption The atmosphere is in hydrostatic equilibrium and vertical transport is eddy/molecular diffusion described by Eq. (1)
    Sec. 2.2, VULCAN transport equation; neglects 3D dynamics.
  • domain assumption The photochemical C-H-N-O-S network in VULCAN accurately represents the relevant kinetics
    Sec. 2.2; no validation against laboratory data for these conditions.
  • domain assumption No atmospheric escape occurs during evolution
    Sec. 4.4: 'No atmospheric escape was implemented'; H atoms produced by photolysis are retained.
  • domain assumption The final PROTEUS atmosphere (P-T profile and outgassed abundances) is a valid fixed backdrop for post-processed chemistry
    Sec. 2.2: VULCAN post-processes the final structure; no feedback from disequilibrium composition to climate.
  • domain assumption The initial volatile inventory (C/H=1.0, N/H=0.5, S/H=2.0, H=5 oceans) represents rocky exoplanet building blocks
    Sec. 2.1; the paper calls it Earth-like/water-rich, but actual exoplanet inventories are uncertain.

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Volatile outgassing from planetary interiors controls the composition of rocky exoplanets' secondary atmospheres. However, observations indicate that disequilibrium processes, such as photochemistry and vertical transport, can strongly alter the chemical structure of Hot Jupiters. Which process dominates under different types of rocky planets, and how outgassing and photochemistry jointly determine the atmospheric composition, remain open questions. Sulfur species are promising tracers of interior-atmosphere coupling because their atmospheric abundances are sensitive to both mantle redox state and stellar irradiation. The PROTEUS planetary interior-atmosphere evolution modelling framework is coupled to two chemical models, FastChem and VULCAN, for post-processed chemistry calculations. We run a grid of planetary evolution simulations spanning diverse mantle redox states, instellation fluxes, and Solar versus M-star host-star spectra. For each case, we compare atmospheric compositions under thermochemical equilibrium, only vertical transport, and vertical transport plus photochemistry. The bulk atmospheric composition remains controlled by the redox state of the mantle and outgassing history, even when disequilibrium chemistry is included. Reduced mantles produce atmospheres rich in H2, and oxidised mantles are dominated by CO2. Photochemistry affects the upper atmosphere, strongly depleting neutral volatiles and enhancing radicals, especially for highly irradiated cases. SO2 is strongly enhanced at intermediate-to-oxidised redox states. Synthetic emission spectra show that photochemical SO2 can generate absorption features at 4 um and at 7.3 / 8.7 um, reaching ~60 ppm and ~100 ppm, before sequentially returning to the outgassed signatures of ~30 ppm and ~50 ppm for the oxidised mantle redox state. These signatures are detectable with JWST, motivating targeted observational campaigns.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.15204 by Harrison Nicholls, Ioannis Panagiotou, Shang-Min Tsai, Tim Lichtenberg.

Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Evolution of the outgassed major volatile abundances for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Evolution of the mantle melt fraction for the two high [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Pressure-temperature profiles at the final converged evo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of the species abundances near the top of the atmosphere after the equilibrium and disequilibrium analysis for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of the species abundances after the equilibrium and disequilibrium analysis for the Sun and M-dwarf cases. Each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The logarithm of the ratio between the average volume mixing ratio of SO [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Equilibrium and disequilibrium synthetic emission spec [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗

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