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The large icy moons of Jupiter formed in a circumplanetary disk (CPD). CPDs are fed by infalling circumstellar gas and dust which may be shock-heated upon accretion or sublimated while passing through an optically thin gap. Accreted…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Nickolas Oberg , Inga Kamp , Stephanie Cazaux , Peter Woitke , Wing-Fai Thi

A key feature of the Galilean satellite system is its monotonic decrease in bulk density with distance from Jupiter, indicating an ice mass fraction that is zero in the innermost moon Io, and about half in the outer moons Ganymede and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Olivier Mousis , Antoine Schneeberger , Jonathan I. Lunine , Christopher R. Glein , Alexis Bouquet , Steven D. Vance

During the final assembly of gas giant planets, circumplanetary disks (CPDs) of gas and dust form due to the conservation of angular momentum, providing material to be accreted onto the planet and the ingredients for moons. The composition…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Gabriele Cugno , Sierra L. Grant

Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are key targets in the search for habitability due to the potential presence of subsurface oceans. Detecting complex organic molecules (COMs), essential for prebiotic chemistry, is crucial to assessing their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Olivier Mousis , Clément Petetin , Tom Benest Couzinou , Antoine Schneeberger , Yannis Bennacer

The volatile budgets of giant planet satellites are critical to unraveling the origin of their building blocks within the circumplanetary disks that hosted them. The Galilean moons Ganymede and Callisto, as well as the Saturnian moon Titan,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Teng Ee Yap , David J. Stevenson

The satellites of Jupiter are thought to form in a circumplanetary disc. Here we address their formation and orbital evolution with a population synthesis approach, by varying the dust-to-gas ratio, the disc dispersal timescale and the dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-24 M. Cilibrasi , J. Szulágyi , L. Mayer , J. Drażkowska , Y. Miguel , P. Inderbitzi

During their formative stages, giant planets are fed by infalling material sourced from the background circumstellar disk. Due to conservation of angular momentum, the incoming gas and dust collects into a circumplanetary disk that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Aster G. Taylor , Fred C. Adams , Nuria Calvet

Context: The chemical composition of a molecular cloud changes dramatically as it collapses to form a low-mass protostar and circumstellar disk. Two-dimensional (2D) chemodynamical models are required to properly study this process. Aims:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Visser , S. D. Doty , E. F. van Dishoeck

The chemical composition of a protoplanetary disk is determined not only by in situ chemical processes during the disk phase, but also by the history of the gas and dust before it accreted from the natal envelope. In order to understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Ruud Visser , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Steven D. Doty

The composition of the surface of the Galilean icy moons has been debated since the Galileo mission. Several chemistries have been proposed to explain the composition of the non-icy component of the moon's surfaces, notably, sulphuric acid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Romain Cerubini , Antoine Pommerol , Zuriñe Yoldi , Nicolas Thomas

The compositions of planet-forming disks are set by a combination of material inherited from the interstellar medium and material reprocessed during disk formation and evolution. Indeed, comets and primitive meteorites exhibit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Jennifer Bergner , Fred Ciesla

We investigate how the formation and structure of circumplanetary disks (CPDs) varies with planet mass and protoplanetary disk aspect ratio. Using static mesh refinement and a near-isothermal equation of state, we perform a small parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Sabina Sagynbayeva , Rixin Li , Aleksandra Kuznetsova , Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Philip J. Armitage

(Abridged) Aims & Methods. A two-dimensional, semi-analytical model is presented that follows, for the first time, the chemical evolution from a collapsing molecular cloud (a pre-stellar core) to a protostar and circumstellar disk. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Visser , E. F. van Dishoeck , S. D. Doty , C. P. Dullemond

A clear understanding of the chemical processing of matter, as it is transferred from a molecular cloud to a planetary system, depends heavily on knowledge of the physical conditions endured by gas and dust as these accrete onto a disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David W. Koerner

We investigated the formation and evolution of satellite systems in a cold, extended circumplanetary disc around a 10 $M_{\rm{Jupiter}}$ gas giant which was formed by gravitational instability at 50\,AU from its star. The disc parameters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 C. Inderbitzi , J. Szulágyi , M. Cilibrasi , L. Mayer

The origins of the Galilean satellites - namely Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - is not fully understood yet. Here we use N-body numerical simulations to study the formation of Galilean satellites in a gaseous circumplanetary disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-09 Gustavo Madeira , André Izidoro , Silvia M. Giuliatti Winter

Starless molecular cores are natural laboratories for interstellar molecular chemistry research. The chemistry of ices in such objects was investigated with a three-phase (gas, surface, and mantle) model. We considered the center part of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-24 Juris Kalvans

A better knowledge of Jovian satellites' origins will bring light on the environment that surrounded Jupiter during its formation and can help us to understand the characteristics of this unique satellite system. We developed a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Yamila Miguel , Shigeru Ida

(Abridged) Exoplanet atmospheres are thought be built up from accretion of gas as well as pebbles and planetesimals in the midplanes of planet-forming disks. The chemical composition of this material is usually assumed to be unchanged…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Christian Eistrup , Catherine Walsh , Ewine F van Dishoeck

We study the formation conditions of icy planetesimals in protoplanetary disks in order to determine the composition of ices in small and cold extrasolar planets. Assuming that ices are formed from hydrates, clathrates, and pure…

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