Table 1 Parameters in the asteroid thermochronologic code and prior distributions used in the Bayesian inversion
From: An early giant planet instability recorded in asteroidal meteorites
Parameter | Prior | Reference | |
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Environmental | |||
tss | Solar age (oldest CAIs) | 4,567.3 Ma | |
Tm | Midplane temperature | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(5.4,0.5)\approx210\,{\mathrm{K}}\) | |
Cosmochemical | |||
26Alo | Initial 26Al/27Al | 5.23 ± 0.06 × 10−5 | |
[Al] | Al abundance | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(-4.6,0.1)\approx1.0\,{\mathrm{wt\%}}\) | |
Tc | Ar closure temperature | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(6.2,0.3)\approx 490\,{\mathrm{K}}\) | |
Asteroid | |||
R | Radius | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(11.9,0.2)\approx 150\,{\mathrm{km}}\) | |
ta | Time of accretion | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(0.70,0.08)\approx 2.0\,{\mathrm{Myr}}_{\mathrm{{ss}}}\) | |
Material | |||
ρ | Bulk density | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(8.12,0.04)\approx 3,400\,{\mathrm{kg}}\,{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}\) | |
Cp | Specific heat capacity | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(6.73,0.08)\approx 850\, {\mathrm{J}}\,{\mathrm{kg}}^{-1}\, {\mathrm{K}}^{-1}\) | |
k | Thermal conductivity | \(\log{\mathcal{N}}(0.3,0.6)\approx 1.4\,{\mathrm{W}}\,{\mathrm{m}}^{-1}\,{\mathrm{K}}^{-1}\) | |
Bombardment | |||
to | Start time | \({\mathcal{U}}[0,{t}_{{\mathrm{max}}}]\, ({\mathrm{Myr}}_{\mathrm{{ss}}})\) | |
Fo | Initial flux | \({\mathcal{U}}[0,1{0}^{4}]\,({\mathrm{Myr}}^{-1})\) | |
τ | e-folding time | \({\mathcal{U}}[0,{t}_{{\mathrm{max}}}]\,({\mathrm{Myr}})\) |