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The formation of planetesimals is a necessary step in the formation of planets. While several mechanisms have been proposed, a local dust-to-gas ratio above unity is a strong requirement to trigger the collapse of pebble clouds into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Konstantinos Odysseas Xenos , Bertram Bitsch , Geoffrey Andama

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] Combining a time-dependent astrochemical model with a model of planet formation and migration, we compute the carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O) of a range of planetary embryos starting their formation in the inner solar system (1-3…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alex J. Cridland , Christian Eistrup , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

We introduce ECCOplanets, an open-source Python code that simulates condensation in the protoplanetary disk. Our aim is to analyse how well a simplistic model can reproduce the main characteristics of rocky planet formation. For this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Anina Timmermann , Yutong Shan , Ansgar Reiners , Andreas Pack

A more fine-tuned method for probing planet-forming regions, such as protoplanetary discs, could be rovibrational molecular spectroscopy observation of particular premineral molecules instead of more common but ultimately less related…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Katherine A. Kloska , Ryan C. Fortenberry

Accurate atmospheric parameters and chemical composition of planet-hosting stars are crucial for characterising exoplanets and understanding their formation and evolution. Our objective is to uniformly determine the atmospheric parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 A. Sharma , E. Stonkutė , A. Drazdauskas , R. Minkevičiūtė , Š. Mikolaitis , G. Tautvaišienė , T. Narbuntas

Highly-differential spectroscopic studies have revealed that the Sun is deficient in refractory elements relative to solar twins. To investigate the role of giant planets on this signature, we present a high precision abundance analysis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 M. Carlos , A. M. Amarsi , P. E. Nissen , G. Canocchi

Aims. We present a detailed study of the Mg/Si and C/O ratios and their importance in determining the mineralogy of planetary companions. Methods. Using 499 solar-like stars from the HARPS sample, we determine C/O and Mg/Si elemental…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 L. Suárez-Andrés , G. Israelian , J. I. González Hernández , V. Zh. Adibekyan , E. Delgado Mena , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa

The elemental abundances of stars, particularly the refractory elements (e.g., Fe, Si, Mg), play an important role in connecting stars to their planets. Most Sun-like stars do not have refractory abundance measurements since obtaining a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Rayna Rampalli , Melissa K. Ness , Graham H. Edwards , Elisabeth R. Newton , Megan Bedell

Context. Previous studies have suggested that the Sun is relatively depleted in refractory elements compared to other solar twins or analogs, potentially as a result of planet formation. However, such conclusions are often limited by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Qinghui Sun , Chenyang Ji , Sharon Xuesong Wang , Zitao Lin , Johanna Teske , Yuan-Sen Ting , Megan Bedell , Fan Liu

The elemental compositions of exoplanets encode information about their formation environments and internal structures. While volatile ratios such as carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) are used to trace formation location, the rock-forming elements -…

Rocky planet compositions regulate planetary evolution by affecting core sizes, mantle properties, and melting behaviours. Yet, quantitative treatments of this aspect of exoplanet studies remain generally under-explored. We attempt to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Rob J. Spaargaren , Haiyang S. Wang , Stephen J Mojzsis , Maxim D Ballmer , Paul J Tackley

The composition of planets is largely determined by the chemical and dynamical evolution of the disk during planetesimal formation and growth. To predict the diversity of exoplanet compositions, previous works modeled planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 John Moriarty , Nikku Madhusudhan , Debra Fischer

We derive the abundance of 19 elements in a sample of 64 stars with fundamental parameters very similar to solar, which minimizes the impact of systematic errors in our spectroscopic 1D-LTE differential analysis, using high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 I. Ramirez , J. Melendez , M. Asplund

One of the current challenges of planet formation theory is to explain the enrichment of observed exoplanetary atmospheres. Past studies have focused on scenarios where either pebbles or planetesimals were the heavy element enrichment's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Claudia Danti , Bertram Bitsch , Jingyi Mah

Evidence is now compelling that most externally-polluted white dwarfs derive their heavy atoms by accretion from asteroids - the building blocks of rocky planets. Optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy of a small sample of suitable white…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Jura

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

Numerous stars exhibit surprisingly large variations in their refractory element abundances, often interpreted as signatures of planetary ingestion events. In this study, we propose that differences in the dust-to-gas ratio near stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-29 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins

Chondrites, the building blocks of the terrestrial planets, have mass and atomic proportions of oxygen, iron, magnesium, and silicon totaling $\geq$90\% and variable Mg/Si ($\sim$25\%), Fe/Si (factor of $\geq$2), and Fe/O (factor of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 William F. McDonough , Takashi Yoshizaki

How planetary systems form and evolve is a key question in astronomy. Revealing how host star properties, such as elemental abundances, age, and mass, differ from those of non-host stars, and how they correlate with planetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Xunzhou Chen , Tiancheng Sun , Lifei Ye