Internal Structure and Scaling laws of Massive Terrestrial Planets

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufm.p33a1013v&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #P33A-1013

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5410 Composition, 5430 Interiors (8147), 5455 Origin And Evolution, 3919 Equations Of State

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Recent astronomical discoveries have pointed out that planets orbiting other stars have diverse properties in mass and orbital parameters. Astronomers have recognized the likelihood of detection of extrasolar terrestrial planets and two missions (Kepler and Terrestrial Planet Finder) have been directed to the detection of these planets. Kepler mission has been scheduled to launch in 2006 and has the capability of finding rocky planets by the transit method. The first planets most likely to be discovered are the more massive ones with very tight orbits (ie. presumably very hot surfaces) around their parent start. The focus of this study is to calculate the internal structure of massive terrestrial planets starting from the knowledge acquired on the Earth and other solar system planets. With the use of equations of state for the Earth and physical laws we obtian radial structure profiles of mass, pressure and density, including all major phase changes for massive Earth-like planets. Scaling laws for the total radius, core radius, average density as a function of mass are obtained for different surface temperatures and core-mass fractions. Simple thermal evolutionary models are considered in order to assess it's importance on the present internal structure of these massive terrestrial planets.

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