The energetic particle environment of a GJ 436 b-like planet

This data set corresponds to the simulation data presented in the article "The energetic particle environment of a GJ 436b-like planet" (Rodgers-Lee, et al., MNRAS, 2023). Details of the stellar wind and cosmic ray models used for the simulations are available in the article.

Each data file consists of the temperature, pressure and heights in the exoplanet atmosphere at a given orbital distance from the star (shown in Fig.3 of Rodgers-Lee et al. 2023). The number density, n(z), of the exoplanet atmosphere can be calculated from the temperature and pressure. Further details relating to the temperature pressure profiles are given in Section 2.3 of Rodgers-Lee et al. (2023). The last two but one columns in the data files are the ionisation rates for molecular hydrogen from Galactic cosmic rays and stellar energetic particles (shown in Fig.4 of Rodgers-Lee et al. 2023). The last column is the assumed planetary effective temperature.

The data is given for a number of different orbital distances between 0.01 - 0.2au. File names are formatted as "zenodo_GJ436_manysp_solar_aX_tp.dat" where "X" corresponds to  100 x orbital distance in au (e.g. "a1" corresponds to a=0.01au) considered. The first line describes the data in the file. The second line gives the column headings and units.