The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets
The bulk planetary compositions are thought to be consistent with the chemical abundances of their host stars. The abundances of eight key rock-forming elements and the key planetary abundance ratios in G- and F-type main sequence stars located in the solar neighborhood within 50 pc were statistical...
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| description | The bulk planetary compositions are thought to be consistent with the chemical abundances of their host stars. The abundances of eight key rock-forming elements and the key planetary abundance ratios in G- and F-type main sequence stars located in the solar neighborhood within 50 pc were statistically analyzed. The averaged C/O, Mg/Si, and Fe/Si elemental ratios of the planetary systems play a crucial role in the chemical composition and mineralogy of a rocky planet's interior. We also investigated the variation of the calculated Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios in the samples of the examined stars utilizing the Ca, Al, Na, and Fe abundances from the catalog and then attempted to establish plausible occurrence trends of the analyzed abundance ratios for the rocky planet population at near-solar galactocentric distances. Considering these results, we provide simple predictions for the most likely bulk compositions of the potential rocky planets. We apply our results to compare them to the solar averaged abundance ratios, showing that the key elemental ratios for terrestrial planet composition in the Solar System are not typical among most of the studied stellar samples. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8ab92f92e6f64d7399509298be0f28a12025-08-20T03:58:48ZengDe GruyterOpen Astronomy2543-63762025-07-01341A3633210.1515/astro-2025-0017The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanetsFutó Péter0Gucsik Arnold1Cosmochemistry Research Group, Department of Mineralogy and Geology, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Debrecen, H-4032, HungaryDepartment of Physics, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Széchenyi tér 1, Eger, H-3300, HungaryThe bulk planetary compositions are thought to be consistent with the chemical abundances of their host stars. The abundances of eight key rock-forming elements and the key planetary abundance ratios in G- and F-type main sequence stars located in the solar neighborhood within 50 pc were statistically analyzed. The averaged C/O, Mg/Si, and Fe/Si elemental ratios of the planetary systems play a crucial role in the chemical composition and mineralogy of a rocky planet's interior. We also investigated the variation of the calculated Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios in the samples of the examined stars utilizing the Ca, Al, Na, and Fe abundances from the catalog and then attempted to establish plausible occurrence trends of the analyzed abundance ratios for the rocky planet population at near-solar galactocentric distances. Considering these results, we provide simple predictions for the most likely bulk compositions of the potential rocky planets. We apply our results to compare them to the solar averaged abundance ratios, showing that the key elemental ratios for terrestrial planet composition in the Solar System are not typical among most of the studied stellar samples.https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2025-0017stellar element abundanceelemental ratiorocky planetsolarmineralogyg-type spectral starf-type spectral star |
| spellingShingle | Futó Péter Gucsik Arnold The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets Open Astronomy stellar element abundance elemental ratio rocky planet solar mineralogy g-type spectral star f-type spectral star |
| title | The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets |
| title_full | The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets |
| title_fullStr | The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets |
| title_full_unstemmed | The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets |
| title_short | The stellar Mg/Si, C/O, Ca/Si, Al/Si, Na/Si, and Fe/Si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets |
| title_sort | stellar mg si c o ca si al si na si and fe si ratios and the mineral diversity of rocky exoplanets |
| topic | stellar element abundance elemental ratio rocky planet solar mineralogy g-type spectral star f-type spectral star |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2025-0017 |
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