Impact-Induced Melting by Giant Collision Events

Autor(en)
Lukas Manske, Kai Wünnemann, Miki Nakajima, Christoph Burger, Ana-Catalina Plesa
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
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)
Publikationsdatum
09-2018
ÖFOS 2012
103003 Astronomie, 103004 Astrophysik
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3fb83ac5-4f35-4c18-9ee5-da9611ee201e