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Scaling laws for the geometry of an impact-induced magma ocean
Miki Nakajima, Gregor J. Golabek, Kai Wünnemann, David C. Rubie, Christoph Burger, Henry J. Melosh, Seth A. Jacobson, Lukas Manske, Scott D. Hull
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Here, we develop scaling laws for (1) the distribution of impact-induced heat within the mantle and (2) shape of the impact-induced melt based on more than 100 smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations. We use Legendre polynomials to describe these scaling laws and determine their coefficients by linear regression, minimizing the error between our model and SPH simulations. The input parameters are the impact angle θ (0°, 30°, 60°, and 90°), total mass M_T (1M_(Mars)-53M_(Mars), where M_(Mars) is the mass of Mars), impact velocity vᵢₘₚ (v_(esc) - 2v_(esc), where v_(esc) is the mutual escape velocity), and impactor-to-total mass ratio γ (0.03-0.5). We find that the equilibrium pressure at the base of a melt pool can be higher (up to ≈80 %) than those of radially-uniform global magma ocean models. This could have a significant impact on element partitioning. These melt scaling laws are publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/mikinakajima/MeltScalingLaw).
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