
“仅仅就我们星系的历史而言,围绕类似太阳一样的恒星形成像地球一样或者更大一些的岩石行星,这一过程已经发生过数亿次,”他说,“我们能不能扩展这项研究,在更大范围内检验行星系统的碳损失问题呢?像这样的研究将需要集结更多元的科学家。”
论文信息 2
【论文题目】Early volatile depletion on planetesimals inferred from C–S systematics of iron meteorite parent bodies
【论文作者】Marc M. Hirschmann, Edwin A. Bergin, Geoff A. Blake, Fred J. Ciesla, and Jie Li
【发表时间】March 30, 2021
【发表期刊】Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
【论文编号】10.1073/pnas.2026779118
【论文链接】https://www.pnas.org/content/118/13/e2026779118
【论文摘要】During the formation of terrestrial planets, volatile loss may occur through nebular processing, planetesimal differentiation, and planetary accretion. We investigate iron meteorites as an archive of volatile loss during planetesimal processing. The carbon contents of the parent bodies of magmatic iron meteorites are reconstructed by thermodynamic modeling. Calculated solid/molten alloy partitioning of C increases greatly with liquid S concentration, and inferred parent body C concentrations range from 0.0004 to 0.11 wt%. Parent bodies fall into two compositional clusters characterized by cores with medium and low C/S. Both of these require significant planetesimal degassing, as metamorphic devolatilization on chondrite-like precursors is insufficient to account for their C depletions. Planetesimal core formation models, ranging from closed-system extraction to degassing of a wholly molten body, show that significant open-system silicate melting and volatile loss are required to match medium and low C/S parent body core compositions. Greater depletion in C relative to S is the hallmark of silicate degassing, indicating that parent body core compositions record processes that affect composite silicate/iron planetesimals. Degassing of bare cores stripped of their silicate mantles would deplete S with negligible C loss and could not account for inferred parent body core compositions. Devolatilization during small-body differentiation is thus a key process in shaping the volatile inventory of terrestrial planets derived from planetesimals and planetary embryos.
文章来源:密歇根大学、科研圈
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