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Thermal Structure and Radius Evolution of Irradiated Gas Giant Planets

  • Authors: Phil Arras and Lars Bildsten

Arras & Bildsten 2006 The Astrophysical Journal 650 394.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 7.

Core temperature vs. mass. The five groups of lines show entropies ﹩Sm_{p}/ k_{\mathrm{B}\,}=6,\ldots ,10﹩, from bottom to top. Each group contains surface isotherms ﹩T_{\mathrm{deep}\,}( \mathrm{K}\,) =500,\ldots ,3500﹩, inducing a larger spread for small entropy.

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