Figure 10.
The thermal stability in terms of supersaturation (S = pFe/psat, Fe; pFe – Fe vapour pressure; psat, Fe – Fe[s] saturation vapour pressure) for solid iron, Fe[s], in the (Tgas, pgas) plane. Both vertical atmosphere (Tgas, pgas) trajectories for HD 189733b and HD 209458b do not cross the line of thermal stability (S = 1), hence, Fe[s] will not evaporate at the cloud base. The solar value for the Fe-element abundance is used for this plot.

The thermal stability in terms of supersaturation (S = pFe/psat, Fe; pFe – Fe vapour pressure; psat, Fe – Fe[s] saturation vapour pressure) for solid iron, Fe[s], in the (Tgas, pgas) plane. Both vertical atmosphere (Tgas, pgas) trajectories for HD 189733b and HD 209458b do not cross the line of thermal stability (S = 1), hence, Fe[s] will not evaporate at the cloud base. The solar value for the Fe-element abundance is used for this plot.

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