On the instability of small planetary cores (II)
Abstract
The property that, for a spherically symmetrical planet in which the density is a fLinction of the pressure, three states of equilibrium are possible in a certain range of values of the total mass, is shown to hold whenever the density is continuous up to a critical pressure Pc, at which (owing to a change of phase) it rises discontinuously by a factor exceeding 2 The question of transitions between the states is briefly discussed.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1950
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/110.4.339
- Bibcode:
- 1950MNRAS.110..339L