Download or read book Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems IAU S299 written by Mark Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of planetary systems. Initially, new exoplanets were discovered through the effects they have on their parent stars - whether through radial velocity, transits or microlensing methods - but now the technology and the techniques have been developed to image light from exoplanets directly. Vast improvements have also been made in our ability to resolve circumstellar matter from protoplanetary disks, through transition disks to debris disks. These dramatic new observations have led to new advances in our theoretical understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems. The proceedings of IAU Symposium 299 report on recent results of this field covering the range from the detailed imaging of protoplanetary disks to the modeling of planetary atmospheres. The volume benefits both active researchers and graduate students entering this dynamic and rapidly progressing field.
Download or read book Planetary Systems Formation Evolution and Detection written by Bernard F. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Are there other planetary systems like ours? Other planets like ours? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe?' So asks Dr. Lew Allen Jr. in the Foreword. In December of 1992, theorists, observers, and instrument builders gathered at the California Institute of Technology to discuss the search for answers to these questions. The International Conference, entitled `Planetary Systems: Formation, Evolution, and Detection' and supported through NASA's newly formed TOPS (Toward Other Planetary Systems) program, was the first of a series of conferences uniting researchers across disciplines and political boundaries to share thoughts and information on planetary systems. The conference was sponsored by NASA, hosted by JPL at Caltech, and endorsed by the 1992 International Space Year Association. These proceedings include discussions of topics ranging from stellar, disk, and planetary formation to new ways of searching for other stellar systems containing planets. The authors represent a wide range of nationalities, disciplines, and points of view. The second international conference took place in December of 1993.
Download or read book The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems written by Harold A. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complex Planetary Systems IAU S310 written by Zoran Knežević and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU Symposium 310 takes a broad look at the complexity of planetary systems, in terms of the formation and dynamical evolution of planets, their satellites, minor bodies and space debris, as well as to the habitability of exoplanets, in order to understand and model their physical processes. The main topics covered are diverse, including: studies of the rotation of planets and satellites, including their internal structures; the long term evolution of space debris and satellites; planetary and satellite migration mechanisms; and the role of the Yarkovsky effect on the evolution of the rotating small bodies. Intended for researchers and advanced students studying complex planetary systems, IAU S310 appeals to non-specialists interested in problems such as the habitability of exoplanets, planetary migration in the early Solar System, or the determination of chaotic orbits. This volume provides a valuable insight into the state-of-the-art research in this exciting interdisciplinary field.
Download or read book The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems written by H. A. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems written by Hal A. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems written by Matthew John Payne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formation Evolution and Dynamics of Young Solar Systems written by Martin Pessah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric discs to fit these to observation, 4) computational astrophysicists, who attempt to decipher the dynamical structure of magnetised gaseous discs, and the effects the resulting internal structure has on the aerodynamic re-distribution of embedded solids, 5) theoreticians in planet formation theory, who aim to piece it all together eventually arriving at a coherent holistic picture of the architectures of planetary systems discovered by 6) the exoplanet observers, who provide us with unprecedented samples of exoplanet worlds. Combining these diverse fields the book sheds light onto the riddles that research on planet formation is currently confronted with, and paves the way for a comprehensive understanding of the formation, evolution, and dynamics of young solar systems. The chapters ‘Chondrules – Ubiquitous Chondritic Solids Tracking the Evolution of the Solar Protoplanetary Disk’, ‘Dust Coagulation with Porosity Evolution’ and ‘The Emerging Paradigm of Pebble Accretion’ are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Download or read book Planetary Systems in the Universe written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Astronomical Society of the Pacific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems written by Sanson Tsun Sum Poon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planetesimals written by Linda T. Elkins-Tanton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16.3 Planetesimals and Planetary Debris Disks
Download or read book The Trans Neptunian Solar System written by Dina K. Prialnik and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trans-Neptunian Solar System is a timely reference highlighting the state-of-the-art in current knowledge on the outer solar system. It not only explores the individual objects being discovered there, but also their relationships with other Solar System objects and their roles in the formation and evolution of the Solar System and other planets. Integrating important findings from recent missions, such as New Horizons and Rosetta, the book covers the physical properties of the bodies in the Trans-Neptunian Region, including Pluto and other large members of the Kuiper Belt, as well as dynamical indicators for Planet 9 and related objects and future prospects. Offering a complete look at exploration and findings in the Kuiper Belt and the rest of the outer solar system beyond Neptune, this book is an important resource to bring planetary scientists, space scientists and astrophysicists up-to-date on the latest research and current understandings. Provides the most up-to-date information on the exploration of the Trans-Neptunian Solar System and what it means for the future of outer solar system research Contains clear sections that provide comprehensive coverage on the most important facets of the outer Solar System Includes four-color images and data from important missions, including New Horizons and Rosetta Concludes with suggestions and insights on the future of research on Trans-Neptunian objects
Download or read book Planetary Systems written by Marc Ollivier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the observational and theoretical point of view. The presence of many giant exoplanets in the close vicinity of their star shows that these newly discovered planetary systems are very different from the solar system. New theoretical models are being developed in order to understand their formation scenarios, and new observational methods are being implemented to increase the sensitivity of exoplanet detections. In the present book, the authors address the question of planetary systems from all aspects. Starting from the facts (the detection of more than 300 extraterrestrial planets), they first describe the various methods used for these discoveries and propose a synthetic analysis of their global properties. They then consider the observations of young stars and circumstellar disks and address the case of the solar system as a specific example, different from the newly discovered systems. Then the study of planetary systems and of exoplanets is presented from a more theoretical point of view. The book ends with an outlook to future astronomical projects, and a description of the search for life on exoplanets. This book addresses students and researchers who wish to better understand this newly expanding field of research.
Download or read book Extra Solar Planets written by Bonnie Steves and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star in 1995, nearly 500 planets have been detected, with this number expected to increase dramatically as new ground-based planetary searches begin to report their results. Emerging techniques offer the tantalizing possibility of detecting an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zon
Download or read book Formation and Evolution of Exoplanets written by Rory Barnes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Theorie der Planetenentstehung, im Zusammenhang präsentiert: Hier finden Sie Informationen zu allen wichtigen Aspekten, dazu sorgfältig recherchierte Literaturverweise und Bibliographien zum Weiterlesen. Mit einem Kapitel zu den jüngsten Beobachtungen.
Download or read book The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems written by Niraj K. Inamdar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kepler space observatory and other surveys have revealed thousands of planets and planetary systems that look significantly different from our own. In particular, the preponderance of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes (planets with radii smaller than Neptune's but larger than Earth's) at short orbital radii has challenged planet formation theories developed in the context of our own Solar System. How and where these planets form remains an outstanding question. Given the large frequency with which such planets occur around other stars, understanding the formation pathways of these planets has the potential to reveal dominant mechanisms for planet formation and evolution and to place our own Solar System within a broader context. The purpose of this thesis is to address and develop frameworks by which these questions can be answered. The thesis is comprised of two parts. In Part I, we consider the question of how and where close-in exoplanets formed. We do this in two ways. First, we use that fact that many close-in super-Earths and mini-Neptunes possess gaseous envelopes that comprise several percent or more of the total planet mass in order to construct a self-consistent planet formation history that accounts for core accretion, thermal evolution, and dynamical interactions during the core assembly process via giant impacts. We find that envelope masses accreted from the gas disc by planetary embryos are typically much smaller than those inferred for many exoplanets, and that the envelope mass fraction is further reduced substantially during the assembly phase when embryos merge. Fully assembled planets can accrete observed envelope masses from the residual disc only if energy exchange between the envelope and the underlying core is totally inhibited. It is therefore very unlikely that such planets formed at their observed semimajor axes, but instead formed further out and migrated inwards. Second, we consider the late-stage evolution of exoplanets after gas disc dissipation in order to explain the bulk structural diversity of observed super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. Whereas naive application of core accretion models suggests a narrow mass-radius relationship for these exoplanets, the population possesses a great deal of diversity in mean density. While photoevaporative mass loss from the host star is the most-commonly invoked explanation for this diversity, we use the fact that many exoplanetary systems are in tightly packed orbital configurations to propose instead that late-stage collisions are at least in part responsible for the observed diversity. We infer envelope mass fractions for planets in the literature whose masses and radii have been measured, and on the basis of this, we identify multiplanet systems whose bulk structural diversity favors late-stage impacts as opposed to photoevaporative devolatilization. In Part II, we turn our attention to the formation and evolution of our own Solar System. We do this within the context of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. OSIRIS-REx, which launches in September 2016, will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2019 with the objective of constraining its composition, orbit, and other bulk properties. In order to better understand the composition of Bennu, an instrument designed to measure its elemental abundances via X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy called REXIS was developed and built at MIT. In this part of the thesis, we investigate the ability of REXIS to constrain the composition of Bennu via fluorescence spectroscopy, as well as its potential to place Bennu within an analogue meteorite class. We carry out our analysis by modeling Solar X-ray activity and the X-ray fluorescence from Bennu, as well as by simulating data product and analysis from the instrument in order to predict REXIS's ability to carry out its goal of contextualizing Bennu within the asteroid and meteorite population.
Download or read book Planet Formation written by Wolfgang Brandner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was published in 2006, it had been just over ten years since the first planet outside our solar system was detected. Since then, much work has focused on understanding how extrasolar planets may form, and discovering the frequency of potentially habitable Earth-like planets. This volume addresses fundamental questions concerning the formation of planetary systems in general, and of our solar system in particular. Drawing from advances in observational, experimental and theoretical research, it summarises our understanding of the planet formation processes, and addresses major open questions and research issues. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field of planet formation and extrasolar planet studies. The book is based on a meeting held at Ringberg Castle in Bavaria, where experts gathered together to present and exchange their ideas and findings. It is a comprehensive resource for graduate students and researchers, and is written to be accessible to newcomers to the field.
