4 papers
Formation of Water-rich Giant Planet Satellites at Decretion Disk Ice Lines
Teng Ee Yap, David J. Stevenson
The volatile budgets of giant planet satellites are critical to unraveling the origin of their building blocks within the circumplanetary disks that hosted them. The Galilean moons…
Formation and Evolution Simulations of Saturn, Including Composition Gradients and Helium Immiscibility
Peter Bodenheimer, David J. Stevenson, Jack J. Lissauer +1
The formation of Saturn is modeled by detailed numerical simulations according to the core-nucleated accretion scenario. Previous models are enhanced to include the dissolution of…
Strong resemblance between surface and deep zonal winds inside Jupiter revealed by high-degree gravity moments
Hao Cao, Jeremy Bloxham, Ryan S. Park +5
Jupiter's atmosphere-interior is a coupled fluid dynamical system strongly influenced by the rapid background rotation. While the visible atmosphere features east-west zonal winds…
On the hypothesis of an inverted Z-gradient inside Jupiter
Saburo Howard, Tristan Guillot, Steve Markham +6
Models of Jupiter s interior struggle to agree with measurements of the atmospheric composition. Interior models favour a subsolar or solar abundance of heavy elements Z while atmo…