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During the late stage of planet formation when Mars-size cores appear, interactions among planetary cores can excite their orbital eccentricities, speed their merges and thus sculpture the final architecture of planet systems. This series…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Huigen Liu , Ji-lin Zhou , S. Wang

During the final growth phase of giant planets, accretion is thought to be controlled by a surrounding circumplanetary disk. Current astrophysical accretion disk models rely on hydromagnetic turbulence or gravitoturbulence as the source of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sarah L. Keith , Mark Wardle

Recent direct imaging discoveries suggest a new class of massive, distant planets around A stars. These widely separated giants have been interpreted as signs of planet formation driven by gravitational instability, but the viability of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Ruth A. Murray-Clay , Andrew N. Youdin

Context: Around 30 per cent of the observed exoplanets that orbit M dwarf stars are gas giants that are more massive than Jupiter. These planets are prime candidates for formation by disc instability. Aims: We want to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Anthony Mercer , Dimitris Stamatellos

Context: Pebble accretion is expected to be the dominant process for the formation of massive solid planets, such as the cores of giant planets and super-Earths. So, far, this process has been studied under the assumption that dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Alessandro Morbidelli

We investigate the occurrence of accretion bursts, dust accumulation, and the prospects for planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable magnetized protoplanetary disk with globally suppressed but episodically triggered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Indrani Das , Eduard Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

Giant planets are expected to form within circumstellar disks, which shape their formation history and the local environment. Here, we consider the formation and structure of circumplanetary disks that arise during the late stages of giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Aster G. Taylor , Fred C. Adams

Gravitational instability has been invoked as a possible mechanism of giant planet formation in protoplanetary disks. Here we critically revise its viability by noting that for the direct production of giant planets it is not enough for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman Rafikov

There has been a long-standing discussion in the literature as to whether core accretion or disk instability is the dominant mode of planet formation. Over the last decade, several lines of evidence have been presented showing that core…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Markus Janson , Mariangela Bonavita , Hubert Klahr , David Lafreniere , Ray Jayawardhana , Hans Zinnecker

We investigate the formation of multiple-planet systems in the presence of a hot Jupiter using extended N-body simulations that are performed simultaneously with semi-analytic calculations. Our primary aims are to describe the planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Masahiro Ogihara , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Approximately half of Sun-like stars harbor exoplanets packed within a radius of ~0.3 AU, but the formation of these planets and why they form in only half of known systems are still not well understood. We employ a one-dimensional steady…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Jacob B. Simon

The population of hot Jupiters with adjacent planetary companions is small but growing, and inner companions appear to be a nearly ubiquitous outcome within this subset of the exoplanet census. While most hot Jupiters are believed to form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Devansh Mathur , Juliette Becker

We conduct gas and dust hydrodynamical simulations of protoplanetary discs with one and two embedded planets to determine the impact that a second planet located further out in the disc has on the potential for subsequent planet formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Matthew Pritchard , Farzana Meru , Sahl Rowther , David Armstrong , Kaleb Randall

We present a solution to the long outstanding meter barrier problem in planet formation theory. As solids spiral inward due to aerodynamic drag, they will enter disk regions that are characterized by high temperatures, densities, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron C. Boley , Melissa A. Morris , Eric B. Ford

To understand giant planet formation, we need to focus on host stars close to $1.7\ \rm M_{\odot}$, where the occurrence rate of these planets is the highest. In this initial study, we carry out pebble-driven core accretion planet formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Heather Johnston , Olja Panic , Beibei Liu

Protoplanets accrete material from their natal protostellar disks until they are sufficiently massive to open a gap in the face of the disk's viscosity that arises from the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). By computing the ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Soko Matsumura , Ralph E. Pudritz

Mass-independent isotopic anomalies of carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous meteorites show a clear dichotomy suggesting an efficient separation of the inner and outer solar system. Observations show that ring-like structures in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 André Izidoro , Bertram Bitsch , Rajdeep Dasgupta

In the core-accretion model, gas-giant planets form solid cores which then accrete gaseous envelopes. Tidal interactions with disk gas cause a core to undergo inward type-I migration in 10^4 to 10^5 years. Cores must form faster than this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. E. Chambers

Inside-Out Planet Formation (IOPF; Chatterjee & Tan 2014, hereafter CT14) is a scenario for sequential in situ planet formation at the pressure traps of retreating dead zone inner boundaries (DZIBs) motivated to explain the many systems…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Xiao Hu , Jonathan C. Tan , Sourav Chatterjee

This paper presents a new terrestrial planet formation theory demonstrating that Earth-mass planets form naturally in tandem protosolar disks. Our model builds upon tandem planet formation theory (Ebisuzaki and Imaeda 2017; Imaeda and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Tokuhiro Nimura , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki