Planet formation around M-dwarfs: the moving snow line and super-Earths

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Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007ap%26ss.311....9k&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 311, Issue 1-3, pp. 9-13

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Planetary Systems: Formation, Planetary Systems: Protoplanetary Disks, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Formation

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Planets result from a series of processes within a circumstellar disk. Evidence comes from the near planar orbits in the Solar System and other planetary systems, observations of newly formed disks around young stars, and debris disks around main-sequence stars. As planet-hunting techniques improve, we approach the ability to detect systems like the Solar System, and place ourselves in context with planetary systems in general. Along the way, new classes of planets with unexpected characteristics are discovered. One of the most recent classes contains super Earth-mass planets orbiting a few AU from low-mass stars. In this contribution, we outline a semi-analytic model for planet formation during the pre-main sequence contraction phase of a low-mass star. As the star contracts, the “snow line”, which separates regions of rocky planet formation from regions of icy planet formation, moves inward. This process enables rapid formation of icy protoplanets that collide and merge into super-Earths before the star reaches the main sequence. The masses and orbits of these super-Earths are consistent with super-Earths detected in recent microlensing experiments.

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