Effects of Stellar Flux on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets: Degree-1 Mantle Convection and Local Magma Ponds
We model the geodynamical evolution of super-Earth exoplanets in synchronous rotation about their star. While neglecting the effects of a potential atmosphere, we explore the parameter spaces of both the Rayleigh number and intensity of incoming stellar flux, and identify two main stages of mantle c...
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IOP Publishing
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74161 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4008-1098 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948 |