Jupiter as a Rotating Bipolytrope

Abstract

Polytropes have long been used to model a wide variety of astrophysical objects. A bipolytrope (composite polytrope) may be used for bodies with a distinct core-envelope structure. In this short paper, I demonstrate that a rotating bipolytrope is a reasonable approximation for Jovian interior. Similar models may be used to probe rotating exoplanets to gain an intuitive understanding of their internal structure.

Research Notes of the AAS article with 1 figure

References in corpus (2)

• The fast spin-rotation of a young extrasolar planet
• A Numerical Method for Generating Rapidly Rotating Bipolytropic Structures in Equilibrium