Gas Disks to Gas Giants: Simulating the Birth of Planetary Systems

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Jan 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #346.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.482

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The ensemble of now more than 300 discovered planetary systems displays a wide range of masses, orbits and, in multiple systems, dynamical interactions. These represent the end point of a complex sequence of events, wherein an entire protostellar disk converts itself into a small number of planetary bodies. Here, we present new simulations of this process (Thommes et al., Science 2008) which produce results in agreement with some of the key trends observed in the properties of the exoplanets. Analogs to our own solar system do not appear to be common, originating from disks near the boundary between barren and (giant) planet-forming.
This work is supported by the Spitzer Theoretical Research Program, NSERC, and the NSF.

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