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Planet formation simulations are capable of directly integrating the evolution of hundreds to thousands of planetary embryos and planetesimals, as they accrete pairwise to become planets. In principle such investigations allow us to better…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Saverio Cambioni , Erik Asphaug , Alexandre Emsenhuber , Travis S. J. Gabriel , Roberto Furfaro , Stephen R. Schwartz

Fast and accurate treatment of collisions in the context of modern N-body planet formation simulations remains a challenging task due to inherently complex collision processes. We aim to tackle this problem with machine learning (ML), in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Philip M. Winter , Christoph Burger , Sebastian Lehner , Johannes Kofler , Thomas I. Maindl , Christoph M. Schäfer

Terrestrial planet formation theory is at a bottleneck, with the growing realization that pairwise collisions are treated far too simply. Here, and in our companion paper (Cambioni et al. 2019) that introduces the training methodology, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-28 Alexandre Emsenhuber , Saverio Cambioni , Erik Asphaug , Travis S. J. Gabriel , Stephen R. Schwartz , Roberto Furfaro

In the late stages of terrestrial planet formation, pairwise collisions between planetary-sized bodies act as the fundamental agent of planet growth. These collisions can lead to either growth or disruption of the bodies involved and are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Miles Timpe , Maria Han Veiga , Mischa Knabenhans , Joachim Stadel , Stefano Marelli

Numerical N-body simulations are commonly used to explore stability regions around exoplanets, offering insights into the possible existence of satellites and ring systems. This study aims to utilize Machine Learning (ML) techniques to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro , Rafael Sfair , Giovana Ramon

Planetary-scale collisions are common during the last stages of formation of solid planets, including the Solar system terrestrial planets. The problem of growing planets has been divided into studying the gravitational interaction of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Diana Valencia , Emaad Paracha , Alan P. Jackson

Planets are expected to conclude their growth through a series of giant impacts: energetic, global events that significantly alter planetary composition and evolution. Computer models and theory have elucidated the diverse outcomes of giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Travis S. J. Gabriel , Saverio Cambioni

With manual searching processes, the rate at which scientists and astronomers discover exoplanets is slow because of inefficiencies that require an extensive time of laborious inspections. In fact, as of now there have been about only 5,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ethan Lo , Dan C. Lo

The exploration of planetary bodies in our Solar system and beyond relies on the processing and interpretation of large, spatio-temporally inconsistent, and heterogeneous datasets. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) provide…

Numerical simulations of the stochastic end stage of planet formation typically begin with a population of embryos and planetesimals that grow into planets by merging. We analyzed the impact parameters of collisions leading to the growth of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-04 S. T. Stewart , Z. M. Leinhardt

In the late stage of terrestrial planet formation, planets are predicted to undergo pairwise collisions known as giant impacts. Here we present a high-resolution database of giant impacts for differentiated colliding bodies of iron-silicate…

At the final stage of terrestrial planet formation, known as the giant impact stage, a few tens of Mars-sized protoplanets collide with one another to form terrestrial planets. Almost all previous studies on the orbital and accretional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Genda , E. Kokubo , S. Ida

We propose a pebble-driven planet formation scenario to form giant planets with high multiplicity and large orbital distances in the early gas disk phase. We perform N-body simulations to investigate the growth and migration of low-mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 John Wimarsson , Beibei Liu , Masahiro Ogihara

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been demonstrated to be capable of predicting impact parameter in heavy-ion collisions from transport model simulation events with perfect detector response. We extend the scope of ML application to…

The fast and accurate estimation of planetary mass-loss rates is critical for planet population and evolution modelling. We use machine learning (ML) for fast interpolation across an existing large grid of hydrodynamic upper atmosphere…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Amit Reza , Daria Kubyshkina , Luca Fossati , Christiane Helling

Pairwise collisions between terrestrial embryos are the dominant means of accretion during the last stage of planet formation. Hence, their realistic treatment in N-body studies is critical to accurately model the formation of terrestrial…

Giant impacts refer to collisions between two objects each of which is massive enough to be considered at least a planetary embryo. The putative collision suffered by the proto-Earth that created the Moon is a prime example, though most…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Mark C. Wyatt , Alan P. Jackson

During the final stage of planetary formation, different formation pathways of planetary embryos could significantly influence the observed variations in planetary densities. Of the approximately 5,000 exoplanets identified to date, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Jingyao Dou , Philip J. Carter , Zoë M. Leinhardt

Predicting the outcome of liquid droplet collisions is an extensively studied phenomenon but the current physics based models for predicting the outcomes are poor (accuracy $\approx 43\%$). The key weakness of these models is their limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Arpit Agarwal

Machine learning (ML) is a revolutionary technology with demonstrable applications across multiple disciplines. Within the Earth science community, ML has been most visible for weather forecasting, producing forecasts that rival modern…

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