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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mikio Fukuhara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2020-03-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5108922