Planet formation—Observational constraints, physical processes, and compositional patterns

C Mordasini, R Burn - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A general theory of planet formation has been a topic of intense study over many years. The
interest in such a theory emerges naturally from asking the question of where our planet …

Dust growth and evolution in protoplanetary disks

T Birnstiel - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, advancement of observational capabilities, specifically the Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast …

Leaky dust traps: How fragmentation impacts dust filtering by planets

SM Stammler, T Lichtenberg, J Drążkowska… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The nucleosynthetic isotope dichotomy between carbonaceous (CC) and non-
carbonaceous (NC) meteorites has been interpreted as evidence for spatial separation and …

Sequential giant planet formation initiated by disc substructure

TCH Lau, T Birnstiel, J Drążkowska… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Planet formation models are necessary to understand the origins of diverse
planetary systems. Circumstellar disc substructures have been proposed as preferred …

Support for fragile porous dust in a gravitationally self-regulated disk around IM Lup

T Ueda, R Tazaki, S Okuzumi, M Flock… - Nature Astronomy, 2024 - nature.com
Protoplanetary disks, the birthplace of planets, are expected to be gravitationally unstable in
their early phase of evolution. IM Lup, a well-known T-Tauri star, is surrounded by a …

Unveiling the internal structure and formation history of the three planets transiting HIP 29442 (TOI-469) with CHEOPS

JA Egger, HP Osborn, D Kubyshkina… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Multiplanetary systems spanning the radius valley are ideal testing grounds for exploring the
different proposed explanations for the observed bimodality in the radius distribution of close …

Dust rings trap protoplanets on eccentric orbits and get consumed by them

DA Velasco-Romero, FS Masset… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We study the orbital evolution and mass growth of protoplanets with masses M in the vicinity
of a dusty ring, using three-dimensional numerical simulations with a two-fluid model and …

Chondrule properties and formation conditions

Y Marrocchi, RH Jones, SS Russell, DC Hezel… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Chondrules are iconic sub-millimeter spheroids representing the most abundant high-
temperature dust formed during the evolution of the circumsolar disk. Chondrules have been …

Can Uranus and Neptune form concurrently via pebble, gas, and planetesimal accretion?

LEJ Eriksson, MAS Mol Lous, S Shibata… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The origin of Uranus and Neptune has long been challenging to explain, due to the large
orbital distances from the Sun. After a planetary embryo has been formed, the main …

Dust growth and pebble formation in the initial stages of protoplanetary disk evolution

EI Vorobyov, I Kulikov, VG Elbakyan, J McKevitt… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. The initial stages of planet formation may start concurrently with the formation of a gas-
dust protoplanetary disk. This makes the study of the earliest stages of protoplanetary disk …