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Stars in the solar neighbourhood have refractory element ratios slightly different from the Sun. It is unclear how much the condensation of solids and thus the composition of planets forming around these stars is affected. We aim to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 D. M. Jorge , I. E. E. Kamp , L. B. F. M. Waters , P. Woitke , R. J. Spaargaren

We have used recent surveys of the composition of exoplanet host stars to investigate the expected composition of condensed material in planetesimals formed beyond the snow line in the circumstellar nebulae of these systems. Of the major…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Torrence V. Johnson , Olivier Mousis , Jonathan I. Lunine , Nikku Madhusudhan

We computed the abundance of refractory elements in planetary bodies formed in stellar systems with solar chemical composition by combining models for chemical composition and planet formation. We also consider the formation of refractory…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Amaury Thiabaud , Ulysse Marboeuf , Yann Alibert , Nahuel Cabral , Ingo Leya , Klaus Mezger

If the photospheres of solar-type stars represent the composition of circumstellar disks from which any planets formed, spectroscopic determinations of stellar elemental abundances offer information on the composition of those planets,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Eric Gaidos

[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

Context. The chemical composition of planets is an important constraint for planet formation and subsequent differentiation. While theoretical studies try to derive the compositions of planets from planet formation models in order to link…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Amaury Thiabaud , Ulysse Marboeuf , Yann Alibert , Ingo Leya , Klaus Mezger

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

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

The chemical composition of stars that have orbiting planets provides important clues about the frequency, architecture, and composition of exoplanet systems. We explore the possibility that stars from different galactic populations that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 N. C. Santos , V. Adibekyan , C. Dorn , C. Mordasini , L. Noack , S. C. C. Barros , E. Delgado-Mena , O. Demangeon , J. Faria , G. Israelian , S. G. Sousa

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

Finding and characterizing extrasolar Earth analogs will rely on interpretation of the planetary system's environmental context. The total budget and fractionation between C-H-O species sensitively affect the climatic and geodynamic state…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Tim Lichtenberg , Sebastiaan Krijt

Solar and extrasolar planets are the subject of numerous studies aiming to determine their chemical composition and internal structure. In the case of extrasolar planets, the composition is important as it partly governs their potential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Ulysse Marboeuf , Amaury Thiabaud , Yann Alibert , Nahuel Cabral , Willy Benz

Models of planet formation are mainly focused on the accretion and dynamical processes of the planets, neglecting their chemical composition. In this work, we calculate the condensation sequence of the different chemical elements for a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 M. P. Ronco , A. Thiabaud , U. Marboeuf , Y. Alibert , G. C. de Elía , O. M. Guilera

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

The composition of the protoplanetary disc is linked to the composition of the host star, where a higher overall metallicity of the host star provides more building blocks for planets. However, most planet formation simulations only link…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Bertram Bitsch , Chiara Battistini

The initial stellar carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio can have a large impact on the resulting condensed species present in the protoplanetary disk and, hence, the composition of the bodies and planets that form. The observed C/O ratios of stars…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Cody J. Shakespeare , Min Li , Shichun Huang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Jason H. Steffen

We have studied the volatile-to-refractory abundance ratios to investigate their possible relation with the low-mass planetary formation. We present a fully differential chemical abundance analysis using high-quality HARPS and UVES spectra…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. I. González Hernández , E. Delgado-Mena , S. G. Sousa , G. Israelian , N. C. Santos , V. Zh. Adibekyan , S. Udry

The atmospheric C/O ratio of exoplanets is widely used to constrain their formation. To guarantee that the C/O ratio provides robust information, we need to accurately quantify the amount of C and O in exoplanetary atmospheres. In the case…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 S. Fonte , D. Turrini , E. Pacetti , E. Schisano , S. Molinari , D. Polychroni , R. Politi , Q. Changeat

Solar photospheric abundances of refractory elements mirror the Earth's to within ~10 mol% when normalized to the dominant terrestrial planet-forming elements Mg, Si and Fe. This allows for the adoption of Solar composition as an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Cayman T. Unterborn , Wendy R. Panero

Theoretical physical-chemical models for the formation of planetary systems depend on data quality for the Sun's composition, that of stars in the solar neighbourhood, and of the estimated "pristine" compositions for stellar systems. The…

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