planets and satellites: gaseous planets
Science goals for future exploration of the habitability of the gaseous giant planets' satellites
... giant planets, space missions, JUICE) 1. Introduction The satellites of Jupiter and Saturn have been revealed as extremely astrobiologically interesting bodies presenting promising conditions for ...
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Dynamics of the giant planets of the solar system in the gaseous proto-planetary disk and relationship to the current orbital architecture
... the planets with the planetesimal disk, the giant planets suffered orbital migration, which slowly increased their orbital ...Jupiter and Saturn were forced to cross their mutual 1:2 ...dispersed, ...
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Theoretical and experimental studies of electromagnetic resonances in the ionospheric cavities of planets and satellites; instrument and mission perspectives
... permittivity and refractivity contributions whenever applicable, namely for Venus and the giant ...the gaseous giants is roughly one order of magnitude larger than that of the rocky ...variable ...
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Unravelling tidal dissipation in gaseous giant planets
... Introduction and context The dissipation of tides is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of planetary systems ( Goldreich & Soter 1966 .../icy and in fluid plane- tary layers ...
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WASP-86b and WASP-102b: super-dense versus bloated planets
... G0 and its orbital period is ∼ 4 d implying that WASP-127b does not receive the same amount of flux as the two examples mentioned ...circulation, and also on any source generating extra heating in the ...
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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. III. Three Saturn-mass planets around HD 93083, HD 101930 and HD 102117
... Saturn-mass planets are located at intermediate distances from their parent star ...of planets in this area of the mass-period diagram might pose a challenge to the standard planet formation ...accretion ...
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Water and the Interior Structure of Terrestrial Planets and Icy Bodies
... 0.335 and 0.342. For Ganymede and Callisto, the two coefficients have not been determined independently, and the -10/3 relationship has been prescribed when inverting the degree-two gravity ...
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Oceanic tides from Earth-like to ocean planets
... parameters and require a relatively small computa- tional cost compared to numerical models taking into account local features ...topography and mean ...geometry and the thin shell ...
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The composition of transiting giant extrasolar planets
... Interestingly, we again observe a clear correlation between planetary and stellar “metallicity”. This result, first found by Guillot et al. (2006), was later confirmed by Burrows et al. (2007). A preliminary ...
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In situ Exploration of the Giant Planets
... Elemental and Isotopic Composition as a Win- dow on the Giant Planets Formation The giant planets in the solar system formed ...Sun and the entire solar system. Protoplanetary disks, composed ...
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The Spitzer search for the transits of HARPS low-mass planets. II. Null results for 19 planets
... low-mass planets is one of the main objectives of the future European space mission CHEOPS (Broeg et ...mass planets that have the highest geometric transit proba- bilities, focusing mainly on the ...
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Exploring planets and asteroids with 6DoF sensors: Utopia and realism
... pressure and deformation signals generated by closely passing convective vortices and provided depth dependent elastic properties in the vicinity of the ...(Tanimoto and Valovcin 2016 ; Garcia et al. ...
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The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets
... “short” and “long” peri- ...lower and higher, respectively, compared to the ones computed with a white noise ...short and long period sig- nal appear with lower and higher FAPs, respectively, ...
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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets.
... Neptune-like planets with minimum masses ranging from 12 to 25 M ⊕ , orbiting the solar-type star HD 10180 at separations between ...The planets are in a dense but still well separated configuration, with ...
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Uranus and Neptune are key to understand planets with hydrogen atmospheres
... models and understand what is going on are scarce because in Jupiter and Saturn most of the ac- tion occurs hidden from view at large optical ...ratio) and can only drive a weak moist convection ...
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Uranus Pathfinder: exploring the origins and evolution of Ice Giant planets
... axis and the solar wind ...axis and the solar wind flow is a time-dependent quantity and varies on both diurnal and seasonal ...special and poorly-understood case because this angle not ...
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Darwin-A Mission to Detect and Search for Life on Extrasolar Planets
... terrestrial planets, including the frequency of life and technologically advanced ...there planets like our Earth out there?” and “Do any of them harbour ...times, and a philosophical ...
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Properties of dense fluid hydrogen and helium in giant gas planets
... densities and different helium ...molecules and the effect of pressure to dissociate hydrogen molecules is partially ...hydrogen and helium the bond length of the hydrogen molecule is shortened by ...
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Populations of Extrasolar Giant Planets from Transit and Radial Velocity Surveys
... disks and should form effi- ciently ...A, and early F stars have few lines in the optical and rotate fast hence strongly limiting the radial veloc- ity ...
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The transmission spectrum of Earth-size transiting planets
... the values given for p = 1 atm 3 and T = 300 K, and set them constant along the z-axis. 2.3.2. Rayleigh diffusion Light is scattered toward short wavelengths by atmo- spheric molecules whose dimensions are ...
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