Origins of giant planets. Volume 1, Disks, dust, and planetesimals /

Origins of Giant Planets is a comprehensive overview of giant planet formation aimed at new researchers in the field. With the capability of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to push the mass limit for direct imaging of young planets down to Saturn's scale, observations within the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dodson-Robinson, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]
Series:IOP (Series). Release 22.
AAS-IOP astronomy. 2022 collection.
Subjects:
Outer planets.
Planets > Origin.
Solar system - the Sun & planets.
AAS: The Solar System, Exoplanets, and Astrobiology.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The scientific legacy of giant-planet research
  • 2. The planet-forming environment
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Disk evolutionary phases and spectral energy distributions
  • 2.3. A simple analytical disk model
  • 2.4. Model extensions : adding complexity
  • 3. Microscopic to macroscopic : grain growth and pebble formation
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Gas-dust interaction
  • 3.3. Grain growth
  • 3.4. Conclusion : how do dust grains evolve?
  • 4. From pebbles to planetesimals
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The planetesimal formation timeline
  • 4.3. Mathematical fundamentals of planetesimal-forming instabilities
  • 4.4. Numerical models of planetesimal-forming instabilities
  • 4.5. Conclusions.

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