Possible nuclear fusion of deuteron in the cores of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, and brown dwarfs
Many brown dwarfs have recently been discovered as sub-stellar objects in which deuteron thermonuclear fusion is taking place. Although Jupiter and Saturn emit nearly twice as much heat as they absorb from the Sun, their internal heat-generation mechanisms have been determined to differ from the nuc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2020-03-01
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Series: | AIP Advances |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5108922 |