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Can a convecting magma ocean offer a solution to the puzzling case of core convection in early earth?
Urmi Dutta, Chris J. Davies, Ashley P. Willis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22521

Can a convecting magma ocean offer a solution to the puzzling case of core convection in early earth?
Convective flow in Earth's iron-rich liquid core drives self-sustained dynamo action, generating Earth's magnetic field, which is strongest among all terrestrial planets of the solar system. Rock records show that this magnetic field has been operative in Earth for at least 3.4 billion years (b.y). However, advanced high pressure experiments have revised the value of the thermal conductivity of the outer core, which implies an age for the inner core of less than 1 b.y., when compositional conve…

A four-planet system orbiting the old thick disk star TOI-1203
D. Gandolfi, A. Alnajjarine, L. M. Serrano, J. A. Egger, K. W. F. Lam, J. Cabrera, A. P. Hatzes, M. Fridlund, M. Garbaccio Gili, T. G. Wilson, W. D. Cochran, A. Brandeker, E. Goffo, S. G. Sousa, G. Nowak, A. Heitzmann, C. Hellier, J. Venturini, J. Livingston, A. Bonfanti, O. Barrag\'an, V. Adibekyan, E. Knudstrup, Y. Alibert, S. Grziwa, C. Ziegler, L. Fossati, F. Murgas, A. C. M. Correia, S. H. Albrecht, J. Laskar, E. W…

A four-planet system orbiting the old thick disk star TOI-1203
TOI-1203 is a bright (V=8.6) G3 V star known to host a transiting warm sub-Neptune on a 25.5 d orbit. Here we report on an intensive high-precision radial velocity and photometric follow-up campaign carried out with the HARPS spectrograph and the CHEOPS space telescope. We found that TOI-1203 has an enhancement of $α$ elements relative to iron of [$α$/Fe]=$0.21\pm0.04$. With an age of $\sim$12.5 Gyr, TOI-1203 belongs to the old, $α$-element enhanced stellar population of the galactic thick d…