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The Role of Early Giant-planet Instability in Terrestrial Planet Formation [PDF]

, 2020
The terrestrial planets are believed to have formed by violent collisions of tens of lunar- to Mars-size protoplanets at time t < 200 Myr after the protoplanetary gas disk dispersal (t 0).
D. Nesvorný, F. Roig, R. Deienno
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Building Terrestrial Planets [PDF]

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2012
This article reviews our current understanding of terrestrial planet formation. The focus is on computer simulations of the dynamical aspects of the accretion process. Throughout the review, we combine the results of these theoretical models with geochemical, cosmochemical, and chronological constraints to outline a comprehensive scenario of the early
Morbidelli, A., Lunine, J.I., O'Brien, D. P., Raymond, Sean N., Walsh, K. J.   +4 more
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The Kinetic Monte Carlo Model of the Auroral Electron Precipitation into N₂-O₂ Planetary Atmospheres

Universe, 2022
Auroral events are the prominent manifestation of solar/stellar forcing on planetary atmospheres. They are closely related to the energy deposition by and evolution of planetary atmospheres, and their observations are widely used to analyze the ...
Dmitri Bisikalo, Valery Shematovich, Benoit Hubert   +2 more
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GJ 357 d: Potentially Habitable World or Agent of Chaos?

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
Multiplanet systems provide important laboratories for exploring dynamical interactions within the range of known exoplanetary system architectures. One such system is GJ 357, consisting of a low-mass host star and three orbiting planets, the outermost ...
Stephen R. Kane, Tara Fetherolf
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The Delivery of Water During Terrestrial Planet Formation [PDF]

Space Science Reviews, 2018
The planetary building blocks that formed in the terrestrial planet region were likely very dry, yet water is comparatively abundant on Earth. Here we review the various mechanisms proposed for the origin of water on the terrestrial planets.
D. O'Brien, A. Izidoro, Seth Andrew Jacobson, S. Raymond, D. Rubie   +4 more
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Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M-dwarf System at 6.9 pc [PDF]

Astronomical Journal, 2019
We present the discovery from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data of LTT 1445Ab. At a distance of 6.9 pc, it is the second nearest transiting exoplanet system found to date, and the closest one known for which the primary is an M dwarf. The
J. Winters, A. Medina, J. Irwin, D. Charbonneau, N. Astudillo-Defru, E. Horch, J. Eastman, E. Vrijmoet, T. Henry, H. Diamond-Lowe, E. Winston, T. Barclay, X. Bonfils, G. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, D. Latham, S. Seager, J. Winn, J. Jenkins, S. Udry, J. Twicken, J. Teske, P. Tenenbaum, F. Pepe, F. Murgas, P. Muirhead, J. Mink, C. Lovis, A. Levine, S. L'epine, W. Jao, C. Henze, G. Fur'esz, T. Forveille, P. Figueira, G. Esquerdo, C. Dressing, R. D'iaz, X. Delfosse, C. Burke, F. Bouchy, P. Berlind, J. Almenara   +42 more
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Understanding the Ecology of Restored Fen Peatlands for Protection and Sustainable Use

Soil Systems, 2020
Natural peatlands are the most effective terrestrial carbon stock on our planet [...]
Nicole Wrage-Mönnig, Peter Leinweber
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Mercury’s Hidden Past: Revealing a Volatile-dominated Layer through Glacier-like Features and Chaotic Terrains

The Planetary Science Journal, 2023
The discovery of global elemental volatile compositions, sublimation hollows, and chaotic terrains has significantly reshaped our understanding of Mercury’s geology.
J. Alexis P. Rodriguez, Deborah Domingue, Bryan Travis, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Oleg Abramov, Mario Zarroca, Maria E. Banks, John Weirich, Anthony Lopez, Nicholas Castle, Yan Jianguo, Frank Chuang   +11 more
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Extreme Debris Disk Variability: Exploring the Diverse Outcomes of Large Asteroid Impacts During the Era of Terrestrial Planet Formation [PDF]

Astronomical Journal, 2019
The most dramatic phases of terrestrial planet formation are thought to be oligarchic and chaotic growth, on timescales of up to 100–200 Myr, when violent impacts occur between large planetesimals of sizes up to protoplanets.
K. Su, Alan P. Jackson, Alan P. Jackson, A. Gáspár, G. Rieke, Ruobing Dong, Ruobing Dong, J. Olofsson, G. Kennedy, Z. Leinhardt, R. Malhotra, M. Hammer, H. Meng, W. Rujopakarn, W. Rujopakarn, W. Rujopakarn, Joseph E. Rodriguez, J. Pepper, D. Reichart, D. James, K. Stassun, K. Stassun   +21 more
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A Second Terrestrial Planet Orbiting the Nearby M Dwarf LHS 1140 [PDF]

Astronomical Journal, 2018
LHS 1140 is a nearby mid-M dwarf known to host a temperate rocky super-Earth (LHS 1140 b) on a 24.737-day orbit. Based on photometric observations by MEarth and Spitzer as well as Doppler spectroscopy from the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet ...
K. Ment, J. Dittmann, N. Astudillo-Defru, D. Charbonneau, J. Irwin, X. Bonfils, F. Murgas, J. Almenara, T. Forveille, E. Agol, S. Ballard, Z. Berta-Thompson, F. Bouchy, R. Cloutier, X. Delfosse, R. Doyon, C. Dressing, G. Esquerdo, R. Haywood, D. Kipping, D. Latham, C. Lovis, E. Newton, F. Pepe, Joseph E. Rodriguez, N. Santos, T. Tan, S. Udry, J. Winters, A. Wünsche   +29 more
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