Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Group photograph
- List of participants
- Preface
- Reviews
- Observational projects
- Posters
- 29 Towards a helioseismic calibration of the equation of state in the solar convective envelope
- 30 Thermal cyclotron and annihilation radiation in strong magnetic fields
- 31 Modified adiabatic approximation for a hydrogen atom moving in a magnetic field
- 32 Computations of static white dwarf models: A must for asteroseismological studies
- 33 The Chandrasekhar mass of a gravitating electron crystal
- 34 Coulomb corrections in the nuclear statistical equilibrium regime
- 35 Molecular Opacities: Application to the Giant Planets
- 36 On Radiative Transfer Near the Plasma Frequency at Strong Coupling
- 37 Effects of Superfluidity on Spheroidal Oscillations of Neutron Stars
- 38 Magnetic Field Decay in the Non-superfluid Regions of Neutron Star Cores
- 39 On the equation of state in Jovian seismology
- 40 Analysis of the screening formalisms in solar and stellar conditions
- 41 Theoretical Description of the Coulomb Interaction by Padé-Jacobi Approximants
- 42 New Model Sequences from the White Dwarf Evolution Code
35 - Molecular Opacities: Application to the Giant Planets
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Group photograph
- List of participants
- Preface
- Reviews
- Observational projects
- Posters
- 29 Towards a helioseismic calibration of the equation of state in the solar convective envelope
- 30 Thermal cyclotron and annihilation radiation in strong magnetic fields
- 31 Modified adiabatic approximation for a hydrogen atom moving in a magnetic field
- 32 Computations of static white dwarf models: A must for asteroseismological studies
- 33 The Chandrasekhar mass of a gravitating electron crystal
- 34 Coulomb corrections in the nuclear statistical equilibrium regime
- 35 Molecular Opacities: Application to the Giant Planets
- 36 On Radiative Transfer Near the Plasma Frequency at Strong Coupling
- 37 Effects of Superfluidity on Spheroidal Oscillations of Neutron Stars
- 38 Magnetic Field Decay in the Non-superfluid Regions of Neutron Star Cores
- 39 On the equation of state in Jovian seismology
- 40 Analysis of the screening formalisms in solar and stellar conditions
- 41 Theoretical Description of the Coulomb Interaction by Padé-Jacobi Approximants
- 42 New Model Sequences from the White Dwarf Evolution Code
Summary
Abstract
Present available interior models of giant planets assume that the internal transport of energy is entirely convective and, accordingly, rule out any possibility of radiative transport. New opacity calculations at temperatures and densities occurring within the giant planets, taking into account H2-H2 and H2-He collision-induced absorption as well as infrared and visible absorption due to hydrogen, water, methane and ammonia are presented. These opacities are not high enough to exclude the presence of a radiative zone in the molecular H2 envelope of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
Abstract
Les modèles de structure interne des planètes géantes développés actuellement supposent que le transport de l'énergie s'effectue entièrement par convection, ce qui élimine toute possibilité de transport radiatif. Des nou-veaux calculs d'opacité aux températures et densités caractéristiques des planètes étudiées, tenant compte de l'absorption induite par collisions H2-H2 et H2-He ainsi que de l'absorption dans l'infrarouge et dans le visible de l'hydrogène, l'eau, le méthane et l'ammoniaque, sont présentées. Ces opacités ne sont pas suffisamment élevées pour exclure la présence d'une zone radiative dans l'enveloppe d'hydrogène moléculaire de Jupiter, Saturne et Uranus.
Introduction
Since the estimations of the conductive and radiative opacities in Jupiter by Hubbard (1968) and Stevenson (1976) all the interior models of the four giant planets have been calculated under the assumption that the energy is transferred by convection through the entire hydrogen-helium envelope. Consequently, the thermal profile is assumed to be adiabatic at all depths.
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- The Equation of State in AstrophysicsIAU Colloquium 147, pp. 576 - 580Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994