A&A 631, A103 (2019) Astronomy https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935710 & © ESO 2019 Astrophysics Linking the evolution of terrestrial interiors and an early outgassed atmosphere to astrophysical observations Dan J. Bower1, Daniel Kitzmann1, Aaron S. Wolf2, Patrick Sanan3, Caroline Dorn4, and Apurva V. Oza5 1 Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Gesellschaftsstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland e-mail:
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[email protected] 3 Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 4 University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Sciences, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland 5 Physics Institute, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland Received 16 April 2019 / Accepted 6 September 2019 ABSTRACT Context. A terrestrial planet is molten during formation and may remain molten due to intense insolation or tidal forces. Observations favour the detection and characterisation of hot planets, potentially with large outgassed atmospheres. Aims. We aim to determine the radius of hot Earth-like planets with large outgassing atmospheres. Our goal is to explore the differ- ences between molten and solid silicate planets on the mass–radius relationship and transmission and emission spectra. Methods. An interior–atmosphere model was combined with static structure calculations to track the evolving radius of a hot rocky planet that outgasses CO2 and H2O. We generated synthetic emission and transmission spectra for CO2 and H2O dominated atmo- spheres. Results. Atmospheres dominated by CO2 suppress the outgassing of H2O to a greater extent than previously realised since previ- ous studies applied an erroneous relationship between volatile mass and partial pressure.