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Table 10

Comparison of Gl 486 b and Solar System telluric planets’ interior and atmospheric parameters.

Planet Model(a) log mupper/Mp mmantle/Mp mcore/Mp Rcore/Rp ABond Teq (K) Tsurf (K) τ H (km)
MR-S
Gl 486 b MRA-S See text
MRA-S H
Mercury ~0.15 ~0.85 0.828 ± 0.012 0.088 437
Venus −4.00 ± 0.01 ~0.67 ~0.33 0.525 ± 0.045 0.76 229 737 160 15.9
Earth −3.62 ± 0.03 ~0.67 ~0.33 0.4536 ± 0.016 0.306 254 287 0.94 8.5
Mars −7.41 ± 0.02 ~0.85 ~0.15 0.539 ± 0.012 0.250 210 213 0.09 11.1

Notes. All parameters from the NASA Fact Sheets or computed by us except for the core-to-mantle mass ratios of Solar System planets, which are actually the iron mass fraction estimated by Lodders & Fegley (1998). Actual Mercury Tsurf ranges from about 100 K on the dark side and at the bottom of deep craters to about 700 K at the sub-solar point during aphelion. (a)Models – MR-S: baseline model with water steam upper layer (894000 samples); MRA-S: MR-S plus stellar abundance constraints (725 000 samples); MRA-SH: MRA-S plus hydrated magma (224000 samples). Nomenclature follows the ‘data type-model setup’ structure.

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