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About the loss of a primordial atmosphere of super-Earths by planetesimal impacts
Michael Lozovsky, Dina Prialnik, Morris Podolak
We consider planets composed of water ice and rock, located far from a central star. In an earlier study, computing the growth of planets by continuous accretion, we found that a l…
An Equation of State of CO for use in Planetary Modeling
Morris Podolak, Amit Levi, Allona Vazan +1
Although carbon monoxide (CO) is an abundant molecule and may have great importance for planetary interiors, measurements of its properties are difficult due to its extreme volatil…
Detailed Calculations of the Efficiency of Planetesimal Accretion in the Core-Accretion Model -II: The effect of Saturn
Nader Haghighipour, Morris Podolak, Esther Podolak
As part of our ongoing initiative on accurately calculating the accretion rate of planetesimals in the core-accretion model, we demonstrated in a recent article that when the calcu…
The Effect of Accretion Rate and Composition on the Structure of Ice-rich Super-Earths
Michael Lozovsky, Dina Prialnik, Morris Podolak
It is reasonable to assume that the structure of a planet and the interior distribution of its components are determined by its formation history. We thus follow the growth of a pl…
Random Models for Exploring Planet Compositions I: Uranus as an Example
Joshua Podolak, Uri Malamud, Morris Podolak
Modeling the interior of a planet is difficult because the small number of measured parameters is insufficient to constrain the many variables involved in describing the interior s…
On the structure and long-term evolution of ice-rich bodies
Stephan Loveless, Dina Prialnik, Morris Podolak
The interest in the structure of ice-rich planetary bodies, in particular the differentiation between ice and rock, has grown due to the discovery of Kuiper belt objects and exopla…