在行星核心条件下直接测量固体铁的导热率
Zuzana Konôpková1, R Stewart McWilliams2, Natalia Gómez-Pérez2,3
1DESY Photon Science, Notkestrasse 85, DE-22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Nature
|June 3, 2016
概括
新的测量揭示了地球
科学领域:
- 地质学
- 星球科学
- 材料科学
背景情况:
- 地球核心的热导电对于行星进化和磁场生成至关重要.
- 之前关于高导热率的预测与地质模型和古磁证据相冲突.
- 需要直接测量来解决了解核心热传输的差异.
研究的目的:
- 在极端压力和温度条件下直接测量固体铁的导热率.
- 提供有关陆地行星核心的准确数据.
- 为了调和地球核心热传输的相互矛盾模型.
主要方法:
- 使用动态激光加热的钻石.
- 在水星大小到地球大小的行星的核心中模拟压力和温度条件.
- 在固体铁上直接测量导热性.
主要成果:
- 测量了地球核心的热导率在18-44 W/m·K,接近之前估计的下端.
- 结果与古磁数据一致,
- 这些发现支持了古老的固体内核与地磁力发电机同时存在的可能性.
结论:
- 测量到的热导率为地热模型提供了更准确的约束.
- 这项研究支持地球自古以来一直存在的地气动力.
- 这些数据使我们能够更好地了解固体内核的年龄和热量演变.
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