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Internal structure of massive terrestrial planets
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Abstract Planetary formation models predict the existence of massive terrestrial planets and experiments are now being designed that should succeed in discovering them and measuring their masses and radii. We calculate internal structures of planets with one to ten times the mass of the Earth (Super-Earths) to obtain scaling laws for total radius, mantle thickness, core size and average density as a function of mass. We explore different compositions and obtain a scaling law of R ∝ M 0.267 – 0.272 for Super-Earths. We also study a second family of planets, Super-Mercuries with masses ranging from one mercury-mass to ten mercury-masses with similar composition to the Earth's but with a larger core mass fraction. We explore the effect of surface temperature and core mass fraction on the scaling laws for these planets. The scaling law obtained for the Super-Mercuries is R ∝ M ∼ 0.3 .
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- Authors
- Valencia, D., O'Connell, R. J., & Sasselov, D.
- Venue
- Icarus
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 181
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 545-554
- ISSN
- 0019-1035 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1970045349
- Cited by
- 552
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 13.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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