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Tidally Heated Terrestrial Exoplanets: Viscoelastic Response Models
Wade G. Henning, Richard J. O'Connell, Dimitar D. Sasselov
Tidal friction in exoplanet systems, driven by orbits that allow for durable nonzero eccentricities at short heliocentric periods, can generate internal heating far in excess of th…
Inevitability of Plate Tectonics on Super-Earths
Diana Valencia, Richard J. O'Connell, Dimitar D. Sasselov
The recent discovery of super-Earths (masses less or equal to 10 earth-masses) has initiated a discussion about conditions for habitable worlds. Among these is the mode of convecti…
Detailed Models of super-Earths: How well can we infer bulk properties?
Diana Valencia, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Richard J. O'Connell +1
The field of extrasolar planets has rapidly expanded to include the detection of planets with masses smaller than that of Uranus. Many of these are expected to have little or no hy…
Radius and Structure models for the First Super-Earth Planet
Diana Valencia, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Rirchard J. O'Connell
With improving methods and surveys, the young field of extrasolar planets has recently expanded into a qualitatively new domain - terrestrial (mostly rocky) planets. The first such…
Internal Structure of Massive Terrestrial Planets
Diana Valencia, Richard J. O'Connell, Dimitar D. Sasselov +1
Planetary formation models predict the existence of massive terrestrial planets and experiments are now being designed that should succeed in discovering them and measuring their m…