The goal of the Ariel space mission is to observe a large and diversified population of transiting planets around a range of host star types to collect information on their atmospheric composition. The planetary bulk and atmospheric compositions bear the marks of the way the planets formed: Ariel's observations will therefore provide an unprecedented wealth of data to advance our understanding of planet formation in our Galaxy. A number of environmental and evolutionary factors, however, can affect the final atmospheric composition. Here we provide a concise overview of which factors and effects of the star and planet formation processes can shape the atmospheric compositions that will be observed by Ariel, and highlight how Ariel's characteristics make this mission optimally suited to address this very complex problem.
@article{arxiv.2108.11869,
title = {Exploring the link between star and planet formation with Ariel},
author = {Diego Turrini and Claudio Codella and Camilla Danielski and Davide Fedele and Sergio Fonte and Antonio Garufi and Mario Giuseppe Guarcello and Ravit Helled and Masahiro Ikoma and Mihkel Kama and Tadahiro Kimura and J. M. Diederik Kruijssen and Jesus Maldonado and Yamila Miguel and Sergio Molinari and Athanasia Nikolaou and Fabrizio Oliva and Olja Panic and Marco Pignatari and Linda Podio and Hans Rickman and Eugenio Schisano and Sho Shibata and Allona Vazan and Paulina Wolkenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11869},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
67 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Postprint of the article to appear as open access in the Ariel Special Issue by the journal Experimental Astronomy