Giant Planets

Tristan Guillot (1) , Daniel Gautier (2)

1 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
2 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique

We review the interior structure and evolution of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and giant exoplanets with particular emphasis on constraining their global composition. Compared to the first edition of this review, we provide a new discussion of the atmospheric compositions of the solar system giant planets, we discuss the discovery of oscillations of Jupiter and Saturn, the significant improvements in our understanding of the behavior of material at high pressures and the consequences for interior and evolution models. We place the giant planets in our Solar System in context with the trends seen for exoplanets.

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Autre [cond-mat.other]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Tristan Guillot, Daniel Gautier. Giant Planets. G. Schubert, T. Spohn. Treatise on Geophysics, 2nd edition, Elsevier, 2015, ⟨10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4.00176-7⟩. ⟨hal-00991246v2⟩