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From stellar nebula to planetesimals [PDF]
, 2014 Context. Solar and extrasolar comets and extrasolar planets are the subject of numerous studies in order to determine their chemical composition and internal structure. In the case of planetesimals, their compositions are important as they govern in part
Amaury Thiabaud +14 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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Gravoturbulent Formation of Planetesimals [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 We explore the effect of magnetorotational turbulence on the dynamics and concentrations of boulders in local box simulations of a sub-Keplerian protoplanetary disc. The solids are treated as particles each with an independent space coordinate and velocity. We find that the turbulence has two effects on the solids.
Johansen, Anders +2 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Thanks to “dust-to-planet” simulations (DTPSs), which treat the collisional evolution directly from dust to giant-planet cores in a protoplanetary disk, we showed that giant-planet cores are formed in ≲10 au in several 10 ^5 yr, because porous pebbles ...
Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hidekazu Tanaka
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Binary Formation in Planetesimal Disks. I. Equal Mass Planetesimals [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2011 As of April 2010, 48 TNO (trans-Neptunian Object) binaries have been found. This is about 6% of known TNOs. However, in previous theoretical studies of planetary formation in the TNO region, the effect of binary formation has been neglected. TNO binaries can be formed through a variety of mechanisms, such as a three-body process, dynamical friction on ...
Daisaka, Junko K. +2 more
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Planets in Binaries: Formation and Dynamical Evolution
Galaxies, 2019 Binary systems are very common among field stars, yet the vast majority of known exoplanets have been detected around single stars. While this relatively small number of planets in binaries is probably partly due to strong observational biases, there is,
Francesco Marzari, Philippe Thebault
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Dynamics and accretion of planetesimals [PDF]
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2012 We review the basic dynamics and accretion of planetesimals by showing N-body simulations. The orbits of planetesimals evolve through two-body gravitational relaxation: viscous stirring increases the random velocity and dynamical friction realizes the equiparation of the random energy.
Kokubo, Eiichiro, Ida, Shigeru
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PLANETESIMAL DISK MICROLENSING [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 Motivated by debris disk studies, we investigate the gravitational microlensing of background starlight by a planetesimal disk around a foreground star. We use dynamical survival models to construct a plausible example of a planetesimal disk and study its microlensing properties using established ideas of microlensing by small bodies. When a solar-type
Heng, Kevin, Keeton, Charles R.
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Four new PLanetesimals Around TYpical and Pre-main seqUence Stars (PLATYPUS) debris discs at 8.8mm [PDF]
, 2021 Millimetre continuum observations of debris discs can provide insights into the physical and dynamical properties of the unseen planetesimals that these discs host.
Wilner, David J. +15 more
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Possible Ribose Synthesis in Carbonaceous Planetesimals
Life, 2022 The origin of life might be sparked by the polymerization of the first RNA molecules in Darwinian ponds during wet-dry cycles. The key life-building block ribose was found in carbonaceous chondrites.
Klaus Paschek +7 more
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