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Table 2

Parameters used for calculation in the models.

Variable Symbol Unit Value Reference
Initial dust porosity ϕdust,0 0.4764 Neumann et al. (2014b)
0.3954 Neumann et al. (2014b)
Initial melt porosity ϕmelt,0 See text
Initial H2 O volume fraction 0.25 Bland et al. (2016)
0.5 For dust/ice = 1∕1
Initial radius at ϕdust = 0 R0 km 0.1 See text
Final radius at ϕdust = 0 Rf km 467 See text
Effective stress σ Pa see Neumann et al. (2014b)
Grain size b m 5 × 10−5 De Sanctis et al. (2015)
Burial depth of the impact energy ΔR R∕5 Šrámek et al. (2012)
Fraction of impact energy converted into thermal energy f 0.2 Šrámek et al. (2012)
Gas constant J mol−1 K−1 8.314472 Taylor et al. (1993)
Water density kg m−3 918
Water viscosity Pa s 0.0016
Dust intrinsic density ρdust kg m−3 2630 Park et al. (2016)
kg m−3 3480 For dust/ice = 1
Initial intrinsic density ρintrinsic kg m−3 2200 See text
Ambient nebula temperature TN K 170 Ceres, Tosi et al. (2015)
inter-planet disk TN K 110 Wakita & Sekiya (2011)
Kuiper Belt TN K 50 Wakita & Sekiya (2011)
Impactor average temperature TImp K TN + 5 This paper
Water latent heat J K−1 kg−1 3.34 × 105
Stefan-Boltzmann constant σSB W m−1 K−1 5.67 × 10−8
Gravitational constant G m3 kg−1 s−2 6.67 × 10−11

Isotope 26Al 60Fe 40K 232Th 235U 238U

Element mass fraction 8.68 × 10−3 1.81 × 10−1 5.53 × 10−4 2.96 × 10−8 8.08 × 10−9 8.080 × 10−9
Half-life [years] 7.17 × 105 2.62 × 106 1.25 × 109 1.41 × 1010 7.04 × 108 4.470 × 109
Initial ratio 5.25 × 10−5 1.15 × 10−8 1.50 × 10−3 1.0 8.00 × 10−3 0.992 × 10−1
Decay energy [J] 4.99 × 10−13 4.34 × 10−13 1.11 × 10−13 6.47 × 10−12 7.11 × 10−12 7.610 × 10−12

References. The data for the calculation of the radiogenic energy production are from Barrat et al. (2012), Kita et al. (2013), Tang & Dauphas (2012), Finocchi & Gail (1997), Van Schmus (1995).

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