Impact-Induced Melting by Giant Collision Events
- Author(s)
- Lukas Manske, Kai Wünnemann, Miki Nakajima, Christoph Burger, Ana-Catalina Plesa
- Abstract
We revisit the long standing problem how to estimate melt production during giant collision events, which may not be accurately addressed by classical scaling-laws. Therefor we carried out a series of numerical models of impact scenarios considering the initial temperature, the solidus, and the layered structure of planetary bodies. We find that the melt production can be significantly increased especially for young (hot) planets depending on the planets thermal state and impactor size and velocity.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Carnegie Institution for Science, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)
- Publication date
- 09-2018
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/3fb83ac5-4f35-4c18-9ee5-da9611ee201e