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This review is focused on describing the logic by which we make predictions of exoplanetary compositions and mineralogies, and how these processes could lead to compositional diversity among rocky exoplanets. We use these predictions to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Claire Marie Guimond , Haiyang Wang , Fabian Seidler , Paolo Sossi , Aprajit Mahajan , Oliver Shorttle

The aim of this talk is to present the most recent advances in establishing plausible planetary system architectures determined by the gravitational tidal interactions between the planets and the disc in which they are embedded during the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ewa Szuszkiewicz , John C. B. Papaloizou

A question central to understanding the origin of our solar system is: how do planets form in circumstellar disks around young stars? Because of the complex nature of the physical processes involved, multi-wavelength observations of large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Meyer , Steven V. W. Beckwith

In this article, I examine several observational trends regarding protoplanetary disks, debris disks and exoplanets in binary systems in an attempt to constrain the physical mechanisms of planet formation in such a context. Binaries wider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Duchene

Volatiles are compounds with low sublimation temperatures, and they make up most of the condensible mass in typical planet-forming environments. They consist of relatively small, often hydrogenated, molecules based on the abundant elements…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Colette Salyk , Edwin A. Bergin , Sean Brittain , Bernard Marty , Olvier Mousis , Karin L. Oberg

Spurred by the discovery of numerous exoplanets in multiple systems, binaries have become in recent years one of the main topics in planet formation research. Numerous studies have investigated to what extent the presence of a stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ph. Thebault , N. Haghighipour

Planetary systems can evolve dynamically even after the planets themselves have fully formed, and there is circumstantial evidence that most planetary systems become unstable after the disappearance of the gaseous protoplanetary disk.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Antoine C. Petit , Gabriele Pichierri , Max Goldberg , Alessandro Morbidelli

The compositions of the Solar System terrestrial bodies are fractionated from that of the Sun, where elemental depletions in the bulk rocky bodies correlate with element volatility, expressed in its 50% condensation temperature. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Rob J. Spaargaren , Oliver Herbort , Haiyang S. Wang , Stephen J. Mojzsis , Paolo Sossi

(Abridged) The chemical composition of planetary atmospheres has long been thought to store information regarding where and when a planet accretes its material. Predicting this chemical composition theoretically is a crucial step in linking…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Alex J. Cridland , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Matthew Alessi , Ralph E. Pudritz

The composition of a protoplanetary disk is set by a combination of interstellar inheritance and gas and grain surface chemical reactions within the disk. The survival of inherited molecules, as well as the disk in situ chemistry depends on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Ellen M. Price , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Karin I. Öberg

Context. The chemical composition of planets is an important constraint for planet formation and subsequent differentiation. While theoretical studies try to derive the compositions of planets from planet formation models in order to link…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Amaury Thiabaud , Ulysse Marboeuf , Yann Alibert , Ingo Leya , Klaus Mezger

There are many competing theories and models describing the formation, migration and evolution of exoplanet systems. As both the precision with which we can characterize exoplanets and their host stars, and the number of systems for which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Jessie L. Christiansen , Charles Beichman , David R. Ciardi , Daniel Huber , Mark S. Marley

One of the primary mechanisms for inferring the dynamical history of planets in our Solar System and in exoplanetary systems is through observation of elemental ratios (i.e. C/O). The ability to effectively use these observations relies…

Much of a planet's composition could be determined right at the onset of formation. Laboratory experiments can constrain these early steps. This includes static tensile strength measurements or collisions carried out under Earth's gravity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-31 Gerhard Wurm

The most intriguing question related to the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks is the genesis of pre-biotic organic molecules in the planet-forming zone. In this contribution we briefly review current observational knowledge of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas Henning , Dmitry Semenov

The bulk compositions of small planets ($R_p< 2 \mathrm{R}_\oplus$) are directly linked to their formation histories, making reliable compositional constraints imperative for testing models of planet formation and evolution. Because…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Joseph Schulze , Natalie Hinkel , Wendy Panero , Cayman Unterborn

The planetary mass-radius diagram is an observational result of central importance to understand planet formation. We present an updated version of our planet formation model based on the core accretion paradigm which allows to calculate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Mordasini , Y. Alibert , W. Benz , H. Klahr

Disc winds and planet formation are considered to be two of the most important mechanisms that drive the evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary discs and in turn define the environment in which planets form and evolve. While both have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-20 Michael L. Weber , Barbara Ercolano , Giovanni Picogna , Christian Rab

The study of the last stages of planet formation, also known as debris disks, is fundamental to place constrains on the formation of planetary sized bodies. Debris disks are composed of dust and occasionally small amounts of gas, both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Isabel Rebollido , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Meredith MacGregor , Bin Ren , Mark Booth , Jonathan Marshall , Courtney Dressing , Patricia Luppe

The recent rapid progress in observations of circumstellar disks and extrasolar planets has reinforced the importance of understanding an intimate coupling between star and planet formation. Under such a circumstance, it may be invaluable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-14 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Jennifer I-Hsiu Li , Satoshi Okuzumi