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Jupiter as a Rotating Bipolytrope

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-09-07 v1

Abstract

Polytropes have long been used to model a wide variety of astrophysical objects. A bipolytrope (composite polytrope) may be used for bodies with a distinct core-envelope structure. In this short paper, I demonstrate that a rotating bipolytrope is a reasonable approximation for Jovian interior. Similar models may be used to probe rotating exoplanets to gain an intuitive understanding of their internal structure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.02622,
  title  = {Jupiter as a Rotating Bipolytrope},
  author = {Kundan Kadam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02622},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Research Notes of the AAS article with 1 figure

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