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Low strength and a shared size distribution connect the hot and cold Kuiper belt populations [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding how the observed size distribution of Kuiper Belt objects emerged from the primordial planetesimal population remains a major challenge in planetary science.
P. G. Benavidez +3 more
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Recurrent planetesimal formation in an outer part of the early solar system [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe formation of planets in our solar system encompassed various stages of accretion of planetesimals that formed in the protoplanetary disk within the first few million years at different distances to the sun.
Wladimir Neumann +3 more
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Chondrule formation by collisions of planetesimals containing volatiles triggered by Jupiter’s formation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsChondrules are spherical or subspherical particles of crystallized or partially crystallized liquid silicates that constitute large-volume fractions of most chondritic meteorites.
Sin-iti Sirono, Diego Turrini
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We investigate the orbital evolution of planetesimals in the inner disk in the presence of nebula gas and a (proto-) cold Jupiter. By varying the mass, eccentricity, and semimajor axis of the planet, we study the dependence of the relative velocities of ...
Kangrou Guo, Eiichiro Kokubo
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Ice Sublimation in Planetesimals Formed at the Outward Migrating Snowline
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 Isotopic studies of meteorites suggest that planetesimals were formed as two distinct populations: noncarbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (CC) reservoirs.
Zhongtian Zhang
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Planetesimal Growth in Evolving Protoplanetary Disks: Constraints from the Pebble Supply
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 In the core accretion model, planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and engulfing millimeter-to-centimeter particles, i.e., pebbles. Pebble accretion can significantly increase the accretion efficiency and help explain the presence of planets on wide ...
Tong Fang +4 more
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Pore Network Modeling of Core Forming Melts in Planetesimals
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Early in the history of the solar system, planetesimals were differentiated into metallic cores. In some planetesimals, this differentiation took place by percolation of the denser core forming liquid through a lighter solid silicate matrix. A key factor
Giulio F. D. Solferino +2 more
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Planetesimal Population Synthesis: Pebble Flux-regulated Planetesimal Formation [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 Abstract We propose an expression for a local planetesimal formation rate proportional to the instantaneous radial pebble flux. The result—a radial planetesimal distribution—can be used as an initial condition to study the formation of planetary embryos.
Christian T. Lenz +2 more
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High-resolution Study of Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse of Pebble Clouds
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Planetary embryos are built through the collisional growth of 10–100 km-sized objects called planetesimals, a formerly large population of objects, of which asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects represent the leftovers from planet formation in our ...
Brooke Polak, Hubert Klahr
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Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 Planetesimals are born fragile and are subject to destruction by wind erosion as they move through the gas of a protoplanetary disk. In microgravity experiments, we determined the shear stress necessary for erosion of a surface consisting of 1 mm dust pebbles down to 1 Pa ambient pressure. This is directly applicable to protoplanetary disks.
L. Schönau +7 more
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