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Interstellar Planetesimals

open access: yes, 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Planetesimal Formation by the Gravitational Instability of Dust Ring Structures

open access: yesThe 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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All planetesimals born near the Kuiper belt formed as binaries [PDF]

open access: yesNature Astronomy, 2017
The cold classical Kuiper belt objects have low inclinations and eccentricities1,2 and are the only Kuiper belt population suspected to have formed in situ3.
W. Fraser   +21 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Embedding planetesimals into white dwarf discs from large distances [PDF]

open access: yesMonthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019
The discovery of the intact minor planet embedded in the debris disc orbiting SDSS J1228+1040 raises questions about the dynamical history of the system.
E. Grishin, D. Veras
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Planetesimal Accretion at Short Orbital Periods

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Formation models in which terrestrial bodies grow via the pairwise accretion of planetesimals have been reasonably successful at reproducing the general properties of the Solar System, including small-body populations. However, planetesimal accretion has
Spencer C. Wallace, Thomas R. Quinn
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Stochasticity & Predictability in Terrestrial Planet Formation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Terrestrial planets are thought to be the result of a vast number of gravitational interactions and collisions between smaller bodies. We use numerical simulations to show that practically identical initial conditions result in a wide array of final ...
Grimm, Simon L.   +3 more
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Gravoturbulent Formation of Planetesimals [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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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PLANETESIMAL COMPOSITIONS IN EXOPLANET SYSTEMS [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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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Preface for article collection “Thermal, dynamical, and chemical processes in our early Solar System”

open access: yesProgress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2022
Upper: Giant impact (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech); chondrule, majorite in shocked enstatite (Courtesy Miyahara); Lower: Collision of planetesimals (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech); Raman mapping of wadsleyite and ringwoodite in Peace River L6 (Courtesy Miyahara
Audrey Bouvier   +4 more
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The unexpected narrowness of eccentric debris rings: a sign of eccentricity during the protoplanetary disc phase [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
This paper shows that the eccentric debris rings seen around the stars Fomalhaut and HD 202628 are narrower than expected in the standard eccentric planet perturbation scenario (sometimes referred to as ‘pericentre glow’). The standard scenario posits an
Grant M. Kennedy
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