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Abundance analyses of stars with planets have revealed that their metallicities are enhanced relative to field stars. Such a trend was originally suggested to be due to accretion of iron-rich planetary material. Based on this assumption, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ann Marie Cody , Dimitar Sasselov

The radial structure of debris discs can encode important information about their dynamical and collisional history. In this paper we present a 3-phase analytical model to analyse the collisional evolution of solids in debris discs,…

Recent observations have revealed a gallery of substructures in the dust component of nearby protoplanetary discs, including rings, gaps, spiral arms, and lopsided concentrations. One interpretation of these substructures is the existence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

Dust attenuation modifies the observed spectral energy distribution (SED), leading to biases in the properties inferred from integrated SED fitting. As spatially resolved SED modeling becomes feasible for large high-redshift samples, it is…

Context. This is the fourth paper in a series showing the results of planet population synthesis calculations. Aims. Our goal in this paper is to systematically study the effects of important disk properties, namely disk metallicity, mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Mordasini , Y. Alibert , W. Benz , H. Klahr , T. Henning

The early stages of a galaxy's evolution leave an imprint on its metallicity distribution. We discuss the origins and evolution of radial metallicity gradients in discs of spiral galaxies using an analytical chemical evolution model. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-06 Ralph Schönrich , Paul McMillan

Recent studies have shown that atmospheric mass-loss powered by the cooling luminosity of a planet's core can explain the observed radius valley separating super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, even without photoevaporation. In this work, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Akash Gupta , Hilke E. Schlichting

We investigate the migration of a low-mass ($\lesssim 10 M_\oplus$) planet near the inner edge of a protoplanetary disc using two-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics simulations. We employ an inner boundary condition representing the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Ryan Miranda , Dong Lai

The radial velocities and direct imaging observations of exoplanets have suggested that the frequency of giant planets may decrease for intermediate-mass stars ($2.5-8\,M_\odot$). The key mechanism that could hinder their formation remains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Paola Pinilla , Antonio Garufi , Matías Gárate

Close-in rocky planets are the most common type of exoplanets around late M dwarfs, ranging from more temperate worlds to highly irradiated lava planets with molten surfaces, and many theoretical studies have attempted to explain their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 S. N. Brandenberger , M. Sanchez , N. Van der Marel , A. A. Vidotto , Y. Miguel

Observations of hot Jupiter type exoplanets suggest that their orbital period distribution depends on the metallicity of their host star. We investigate here whether the impact of the stellar metallicity on the evolution of the tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Emeline Bolmont , Florian Gallet , Stéphane Mathis , Corinne Charbonnel , Louis Amard , Yann Alibert

During the past five years, the Spitzer Space Telescope and improved ground-based facilities have enabled a huge increase in the number of circumstellar disks, around young stars of Solar mass or smaller, in which the composition of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 Dan M. Watson

We have selected a sample of Galactic Cepheids for which accurate estimates of radii, distances, and photometric parameters are available. The comparison between their pulsation masses, based on new Period-Mass-Radius (PMR) relations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bono , W. P. Gieren , M. Marconi , P. Fouque' , F. Caputo

Disc-driven planet migration is integral to the formation of planetary systems. In standard, gas-dominated protoplanetary discs, low-mass planets or planetary cores undergo rapid inwards migration and are lost to the central star. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 He-Feng Hsieh , Min-Kai Lin

We investigate the connection between dust and gas in the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891. High resolution Herschel PACS and SPIRE 70, 100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 $\mu$m images are combined with JCMT SCUBA 850 $\mu$m observations to…

In the partially ionized material of stellar interiors, the strongest forces acting on electrons and ions are the Coulomb interactions between charges. The dynamics of the plasma as a whole depend on the magnitudes of the average…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Ana Brito , Ilídio Lopes

Compact multi-planet systems containing super-Earths or sub-Neptunes, commonly found around solar-type stars, may be surrounded by external giant planet or stellar companions, which can shape the architechture and observability of the inner…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Bonan Pu , Dong Lai

The Sun and >15 percent of nearby stars are surrounded by dusty debris disks that must be collisionally replenished by asteroids and comets, as the dust would otherwise be depleted on <10 Myr timescales (ref. 1). Theoretical studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kalas , James R. Graham , Mark Clampin

We present a synergic study of protoplanetary disks to investigate links between inner disk gas molecules and the large-scale migration of solid pebbles. The sample includes 63 disks where two types of measurements are available: i)…

Stellar rotation significantly shapes the evolution of massive stars, yet the interplay of mass and metallicity remains elusive, limiting our capacity to construct accurate stellar evolution models and to better estimate the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Weijia Sun , Cristina Chiappini