Planet Formation, Protoplanetary Disks and Debris Disks

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Dec 2006

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The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos ASP Conference Series, Volume 357, proceedings of the conference held 9-12

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Models of planetary growth are based upon data from our own Solar System as well as observations of extrasolar planets and the circumstellar environments of young stars. Collapse of molecular cloud cores leads to central condensations (protostars) surrounded by higher specific angular momentum circumstellar disks. Planets form within such disks, and play a major role in disk evolution. Terrestrial planets grow via pairwise accretion of solid bodies. Giant planets begin their growth as do terrestrial planets, but they become massive enough to accumulate substantial amounts of gas before the protoplanetary disk dissipates. A potential hazard to planetary systems is radial decay of planetary orbits resulting from interactions between the planets and the disk. Massive planets can sweep up disk material in their vicinity, eject planetesimals and small planets to interstellar space or into their star, and confine disks in radius and azimuth. Small planetary bodies (asteroids and comets) can sequester solid grains for long periods of time and subsequently release them. Spitzer observations of disks around stars of various ages are providing quantitative constraints on the evolution of dust within protoplanetary disks.

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