Internal structures and magnetic moments of rocky planets - Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS

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Table B.2

Core characteristics and magnetic properties of planets and satellites of the Solar System.

	Normalized planet mass	Normalized planet radius	Rotational period	Core characteristics			Magnetic properties

Planet	M_p	R_p	days				Calculated R_oℓ	ObservedR_oℓ	Calculated ℳ/ℳ_⊕	Observedℳ/ℳ_⊕	Errorℳ/ℳ_⊕
Mercury	0.0533 (1)	0.3829 (2)	58.8 (3)	0.70	0.55	0.32	8.1	8(3)	0.0003	0.0004 (3)	0.001
Venus	0.815 (4)	0.9499 (2)	243.7 (3)	0.96	0.92	0.89	50.7	50 (3)	0.0007	0(3)	0.001
Earth	1(5)	1(2)	1(3)	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.09	0.09 (3)	1.00	1(3)	0.000
Mars (a)	0,1074 (6)	0.532 (2)	1(3)	0.64	0.50	0.94	0.10	0.10 (3)	0.084	0.10 (3)	0.016
Ganymede	0.0248 (7)	0.4132 (2)	0.73 (3)	0.59	0.22	0.29	0.05	0.05 (3)	0.003	0.002 (3)	0.001

References: (a) Extinct dynamo; (1) Smith et al. (2012); (2) Seidelmann et al. (2007); (3) Olson & Christensen (2006); (4) Zeng et al. (2016); (5) Dziewonski & Anderson (1981); (6) Konopliv et al. (2011); (7) Schubert et al. (2004).

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