The interior structure of Mercury and its core sulfur content

A. Rivoldini , T. van Hoolst , O. Verhoeven

Depth-dependent interior structure models of Mercury are calculated for several plausible chemical compositions of the core and of the mantle. For those models, we compute the associated libration amplitude, obliquity, tidal deformation, and tidal changes in the external potential.

Mots clés: Mercury; Interiors; Rotational dynamics; Solid body tides; Spin-orbit resonances

A. Rivoldini, T. van Hoolst, O. Verhoeven. The interior structure of Mercury and its core sulfur content. Icarus, 2009, 201 (1), pp.12. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.020⟩. ⟨hal-00524850⟩