Massive terrestrial planets (super-Earths): detailed physics of their interiors

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Aug 2008

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Physica Scripta, Volume 130, Issue , pp. 014035 (2008).

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Planets in the mass range of 1 12 Earth masses do not exist in our Solar System, but now there is direct evidence that they orbit other stars. Near-future experiments will allow determination of their masses and radii with 5 10% uncertainty, their host star composition and age and, in some cases, planetary atmosphere properties. Current theoretical models will be capable of producing a limited and well-defined family of solutions for such planets (with no H He envelopes) at the 2% level. This will allow us to understand the physical properties of super-Earths as a class provided we discover a large enough sample and preferably around small stars.

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