Density deficit of the Earth's core revealed by a multi-megabar primary pressure scale
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| author | Ikuta, Daijo Ohtani, Eiji Fukui, Hiroshi Sakamaki, Tatsuya Heid, Rolf Ishikawa, Daisuke Baron, Alfred Q. R. |
| author_facet | Ikuta, Daijo Ohtani, Eiji Fukui, Hiroshi Sakamaki, Tatsuya Heid, Rolf Ishikawa, Daisuke Baron, Alfred Q. R. |
| contents | An accurate pressure scale is a fundamental requirement to understand planetary interiors. Here, we establish a primary pressure scale extending to the multi-megabar pressures of the Earth's core, by combined measurement of the acoustic velocities and the density from a rhenium sample in a diamond anvil cell using inelastic x-ray scattering and x-ray diffraction. Our scale agrees well with previous primary scales and shock Hugoniots in each experimental pressure range, and reveals that previous scales have overestimated laboratory pressures by at least 20% at 230 gigapascals. It suggests that the light element content in the Earth's inner core (the density deficit relative to iron) is likely to be double what was previously estimated, or the Earth's inner core temperature is much higher than expected, or some combination thereof. |
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| spellingShingle | Density deficit of the Earth's core revealed by a multi-megabar primary pressure scale Ikuta, Daijo Ohtani, Eiji Fukui, Hiroshi Sakamaki, Tatsuya Heid, Rolf Ishikawa, Daisuke Baron, Alfred Q. R. Geophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics An accurate pressure scale is a fundamental requirement to understand planetary interiors. Here, we establish a primary pressure scale extending to the multi-megabar pressures of the Earth's core, by combined measurement of the acoustic velocities and the density from a rhenium sample in a diamond anvil cell using inelastic x-ray scattering and x-ray diffraction. Our scale agrees well with previous primary scales and shock Hugoniots in each experimental pressure range, and reveals that previous scales have overestimated laboratory pressures by at least 20% at 230 gigapascals. It suggests that the light element content in the Earth's inner core (the density deficit relative to iron) is likely to be double what was previously estimated, or the Earth's inner core temperature is much higher than expected, or some combination thereof. |
| title | Density deficit of the Earth's core revealed by a multi-megabar primary pressure scale |
| topic | Geophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02076 |