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We review the problem of the formation of terrestrial planets, with particular emphasis on the interaction of dynamical and geochemical models. The lifetime of gas around stars in the process of formation is limited to a few million years…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Jonathan I. Lunine , David P. O'Brien , Sean N. Raymond , Alessandro Morbidelli , Thomas Quinn , Amara Graps

The consistency of planet formation models suffers from the disconnection between the regime of small and large bodies. This is primarily caused by so-called growth barriers: the direct growth of larger bodies is halted at centimetre-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Joanna Drazkowska , Yann Alibert , Ben Moore

Formation of terrestrial planets by agglomeration of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks sensitively depends on the velocity evolution of planetesimals. We describe a novel semi-analytical approach to the treatment of planetesimal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roman R. Rafikov

Planet formation models begin with proto-embryos and planetesimals already fully formed, missing out a crucial step, the formation of planetesimals/proto-embryos. In this work, we include prescriptions for planetesimal and proto-embryo…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Gavin A. L. Coleman

We examine the predictions of the core accretion - gas capture model concerning the efficiency of planet formation around stars with various masses. First, we follow the evolution of gas and solids from the moment when all solids are in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kacper Kornet , Sebastian Wolf , Michal Rozyczka

Context. The localized formation of planetesimals can be triggered with the help of streaming instability when the local pebble density is high. This can happen at various locations in the disk leading to the formation of local planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Nicolas Kaufmann , Octavio M. Guilera , Yann Alibert , Irina L. San Sebastián

Prevailing $N$-body planet formation models typically start with lunar-mass embryos and show a general trend of rapid migration of massive planetary cores to the inner Solar System in the absence of a migration trap. This setup cannot…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Tommy Chi Ho Lau , Man Hoi Lee , Ramon Brasser , Soko Matsumura

Most detected planet-bearing binaries are in wide orbits, for which a high inclination, $i_B$, between the binary orbital plane and the plane of the planetary disk around the primary is likely to be common. In this paper, we investigate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ji-Wei Xie , Matthew Payne , Philippe Thebault , Ji-Lin Zhou , Jian Ge

The standard model of planet formation considers an initial phase in which planetesimals form from a dust disk, followed by a phase of mutual planetesimal-planetesimal collisions, leading eventually to the formation of planetary embryos.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ji-Wei Xie , Matthew J. Payne , Philippe Thebault , Ji-Lin Zhou , Jian Ge

The formation of planetesimals is expected to occur via particle-gas instabilities that concentrate dust into self-gravitating clumps. Triggering these instabilities requires the prior pileup of dust in the protoplanetary disk. Until now,…

It is widely held that the first step in forming the gas giant planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn, is to form solid `cores' of roughly 10 M$_\oplus$. Getting the cores to form before the solar nebula dissipates ($\sim\!1-10\,$Myr) has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-09 Harold F. Levison , Katherine A. Kretke , Martin J. Duncan

Planet formation is thought to occur in discs around young stars by the aggregation of small dust grains into much larger objects. The growth from grains to pebbles and from planetesimals to planets is now fairly well understood. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-01 Jean-François Gonzalez , Guillaume Laibe , Sarah T. Maddison

More than half of stars reside in binary or multiple star systems and many planets have been found in binary systems. From theoretical point of view, however, whether or not the planetary formation proceeds in a binary system is a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Junichiro Makino

We have performed three-dimensional two-fluid (gas-dust) hydrodynamical models of circumstellar discs with embedded protoplanets (3 - 333 M\oplu) and small solid bodies (radii 10cm to 10m). We find that high mass planets (\gtrsim Saturn…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ben A. Ayliffe , Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

We model the early stages of planet formation in the Solar System, including continual planetesimal formation, and planetesimal and pebble accretion onto planetary embryos in an evolving disk driven by a disk wind. The aim is to constrain…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 John Chambers

The formation of a solar system is believed to have followed a multi-stage process around a protostar. Whipple first noted that planetesimal growth by particle agglomeration is strongly influenced by gas drag; there is a "bottleneck" at the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 J. S. Wettlaufer

The standard model for planet formation is a bottom-up process in which the origin of rocky and gaseous planets can be traced back to the collision of micron-sized dust grains within the gas-rich environment of protoplanetary disks. Key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Philip J. Armitage

As part of a national scientific network 'Pathways to Habitability' the formation of planets and the delivery of water onto these planets is a key question as water is essential for the development of life. In the first part of the paper we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Rudolf Dvorak , Thomas I. Maindl , Christoph Burger , Christoph Schäfer , Roland Speith

The first discovered interstellar small object, `Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1), presents unique physical properties of extremely elongated geometric shape and dual characteristics of an asteroid and a comet. These properties suggest a possible…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Xi-Ling Zheng , Ji-Lin Zhou

Terrestrial planets form in a series of dynamical steps from the solid component of circumstellar disks. First, km-sized planetesimals form likely via a combination of sticky collisions, turbulent concentration of solids, and gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean N. Raymond