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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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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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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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Universe, 2022 Questions regarding how primordial or pristine the comets of the solar system are have been an ongoing controversy. In this review, we describe comets’ physical evolution from dust and ice grains in the solar nebula to the contemporary small bodies in ...
Jürgen Blum +2 more
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Binary formation in planetesimal disks. II. Planetesimals with a mass spectrum [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2014 Abstract Many massive objects have been found in the outer region of the solar system. How they were formed and evolved has not been well understood, although there have been intensive studies of the accretion process of terrestrial planets. One of the mysteries is the existence of binary planetesimals with near-equal mass components and
Kominami, Junko D., Makino, Junichiro
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, 2023 During the formation of our solar system, a large number of planetesimals were ejected into interstellar space by gravitational encounters with the planets. Debris disks observations and numerical simulations indicate that many other planetary systems, now known to be quite common, would have undergone a similar dynamical clearing process.
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PLANETESIMAL COMPOSITIONS IN EXOPLANET SYSTEMS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 We have used recent surveys of the composition of exoplanet host stars to investigate the expected composition of condensed material in planetesimals formed beyond the snow line in the circumstellar nebulae of these systems. Of the major solid forming elements, we find that, as for the Sun, the C and O abundances (and particularly the C/O abundance ...
Johnson, T.V. +3 more
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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. +27 more
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Multiwavelength Transit Observations of the Candidate Disintegrating Planetesimals Orbiting WD 1145+017 [PDF]
, 2015 We present multiwavelength, ground-based follow-up photometry of the white dwarf WD 1145+017, which has recently been suggested to be orbited by up to six or more short-period, low-mass, disintegrating planetesimals.
Johnson, John Asher +32 more
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Planetesimal Formation by the Gravitational Instability of Dust Ring Structures
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We investigate the gravitational instability (GI) of dust ring structures and the formation of planetesimals by their gravitational collapse. The normalized dispersion relation of a self-gravitating ring structure includes two parameters that are related
Sanemichi Z. Takahashi +2 more
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