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Both Uranus and Neptune are thought to have strong zonal winds with velocities of several hundred meters per second. These wind velocities, however, assume solid-body rotation periods based on Voyager 2 measurements of periodic variations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ravit Helled , John D. Anderson , Gerald Schubert

The distant ice giants of the Solar System, Uranus and Neptune, have only been visited by one space mission, Voyager 2. The current knowledge on their composition remains very limited despite some recent advances. A better characterization…

Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood. Their gravitational fields, rotation periods, atmosphere dynamics, and internal structures are not well determined. In this paper we present empirical structure models of Uranus and Neptune…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Benno A. Neuenschwander , Ravit Helled

We present the first models of Jupiter and Saturn to couple their evolution to both a radiative-atmosphere grid and to high-pressure phase diagrams of hydrogen with helium and other admixtures. We find that prior calculated phase diagrams…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jonathan J. Fortney , William B. Hubbard

The impact of various competing heating processes on the thermal evolution of neutron stars is investigated. We show that internal heating leads to significantly enhanced surface temperatures for pulsars of middle and old age. The heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-13 Christoph Schaab , Armen Sedrakian , Fridolin Weber , Manfred K. Weigel

We sketch the average behaviour of the temperatures and densities of the main components of the $\Lambda$CDM universe after inflation. It is modelled as a perfect fluid with dark energy associated with the macroscopic effect of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-15 Natacha Leite , Alex H. Blin

The determination of Saturn's atmospheric noble gas abundances are critical to understanding the formation and evolution of Saturn, and giant planets in general. These measurements can only be performed with an entry probe. A Saturn probe…

The interiors of many planets consist mostly of fluid layers. When these layers are subject to superadiabatic temperature or compositional gradients, turbulent convection transports heat and momentum. In addition, planets are fast rotators.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Alban Pothérat , Susanne Horn

We compute grids of radiative-convective model atmospheres for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune over a range of intrinsic fluxes and surface gravities. The atmosphere grids serve as an upper boundary condition for models of the thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. J. Fortney , M. Ikoma , N. Nettelmann , T. Guillot , M. S. Marley

We re-investigate the evolution of the strongly degenerate neutrinos in the early universe. With the larger degeneracy, the neutrino number freezes at higher temperatures because the neutrino annihilation rate decreases. We consider very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazuhide Ichikawa , M. Kawasaki

Neutron stars are some of the densest manifestations of massive objects in the universe. They are ideal astrophysical laboratories for testing theories of dense matter physics and provide connections among nuclear physics, particle physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. M. Lattimer , M. Prakash

We review our current understanding of the interior structure and thermal evolution of Saturn, with a focus on recent results in the Cassini era. There has been important progress in understanding physical inputs, including equations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-22 Jonathan J. Fortney , Ravit Helled , Nadine Nettelmann , David J. Stevenson , Mark S. Marley , William B. Hubbard , Luciano Iess

Uranus and Neptune are ice giants with $\sim$ 15% atmospheres by mass, placing them in an intermediate category between rocky planets and gas giants. These atmospheres are too massive to have been primarily outgassed, yet they never…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Renata Frelikh , Ruth A. Murray-Clay

The large Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Eris is nearly as big as Pluto and has a small moon, Dysnomia. Constraints on the system's spin and orbit characteristics were recently used to argue for a dissipative Eris, requiring a differentiated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Ryunosuke Akiba , Francis Nimmo

We examine the uncertainties in current planetary models and we quantify their impact on the planet cooling histories and mass-radius relationships. These uncertainties include (i) the differences between the various equations of state used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 I. Baraffe , G. Chabrier , T. Barman

The internal structures of Uranus and Neptune remain unknown. In addition, sub-Neptunes are now thought to be the most common type of exoplanets. Understanding the physical processes that govern the interiors of such planets is therefore…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Saburo Howard , Ravit Helled , Armin Bergermann , Ronald Redmer

We reconsider the evolution of strongly degenerate neutrinos in the early universe. Our chief concern is the validity of the entropy conservation after the neutrino annihilation process has frozen out (so that the establishment of chemical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Masahiro Kawasaki

As a galaxy evolves, its chemical composition changes and the abundance ratios of different elements are powerful probes of the underlying evolutionary processes. Phosphorous is an element whose evolution has remained quite elusive until…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Caffau , P. Bonifacio , R. Faraggiana , M. Steffen

Ab initio free energy calculations are employed to derive the entropy of liquid and superionic water over a wide range of conditions in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. The resulting adiabats are much shallower in pressure-temperature…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Burkhard Militzer

We present a review of Saturn's interior structure and thermal evolution, with a particular focus on work in the past 5 years. Data from the Cassini mission, including a precise determination of the gravity field from the Grand Finale…