Melting and transport properties of Al2O3 at extreme conditions
November 8, 2024
M. Ghosh, S. X. Hu, E. Blackman, T. Suer, S. Zhang write in Physical Review B, “The high-pressure temperature phase diagram and transport properties of materials are of broad interest to planetary sciences and high-energy-density sciences and applications.”
Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores
February 5, 2025
A. Sur, R. Tejada Arevalo, Y. Su, and A. Burrows write in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, “With the recent realization that there likely are stably stratified regions in the interiors of both Jupiter and Saturn, we construct new nonadiabatic, inhomogeneous evolutionary models with the same microphysics for each that result at the present time in respectable fits for all major bulk observables for both planets.”
Interior and Gravity Field Models for Uranus Suggest a Mixed-composition Interior: Implications for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe
January 30, 2025
Z. Lin, S. Seager and B. P. Weiss write in The Planetary Science Journal, “The interior composition and structure of Uranus are ambiguous. It is unclear whether Uranus is composed of fully differentiated layers dominated by an icy mantle or has smooth compositional gradients.”
Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune
November 25, 2024
Dr. Burkhardt Militzer writes in PNAS, “The Voyager spacecraft discovered that the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have nondipolar magnetic fields, defying expectations that a thick interior layer of planetary ices would generate strong dipolar fields.”
Might Uranus And Neptune Have Deep, Multi-Layer Oceans?
February 14, 2025
Dr. Burkhardt Militzer talks in Science Friday, about his recent research based on computer simulations of fluids hints that the planets could contain vast multi-layered oceans, as much as thousands of miles deep.
Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores
Ankan Sur, Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Yubo Su, and Adam Burrows, Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores, (2025). In The Astrophysical Journal Letters. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adad62
Atmospheric wind energization of ocean weather
Shikhar Rai, J. Thomas Farrar & Hussein Aluie, Atmospheric wind energization of ocean weather, (2025). In Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56310-1
Interior and Gravity Field Models for Uranus Suggest a Mixed-composition Interior: Implications for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe
Zifan Lin, Sara Seager and Benjamin P. Weiss, Interior and Gravity Field Models for Uranus Suggest a Mixed-composition Interior: Implications for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, (2025). In The Planetary…
Jupiter Evolutionary Models Incorporating Stably Stratified Regions
Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Ankan Sur, Yubo Su, and Adam Burrows, Jupiter Evolutionary Models Incorporating Stably Stratified Regions, (2025). In The Astrophysical Journal. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada030
Calculating spectra by sequential filtering
Dongxiao Zhao, Hussein Aluie, Calculating spectra by sequential filtering, (2025). In Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244909