Sentences with phrase «mechanisms of planetary formation»
The new results from SPHERE, along with data from other telescopes such as ALMA, are revolutionising astronomers» understanding of the environments around young stars and the complex mechanisms of planetary formation.
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These instabilities are a key mechanism for eliciting the transport of angular momentum through nascent planetary systems, and are very important to an overall understanding of planet formation.
These studies are aimed at understanding the physical mechanisms that govern star formation and how the evolution of the gaseous component of disks impacts the resulting planetary system architectures.
Lloyd, J.P., Lunine, J.I., Mamajek, E., Spiegel, D.S., Covey, K.R., Shkolnik, E.L., Walkowicz, L., Chavez, M., Bertone, E., & Olmedo Aguilar, J.M., Targeting Young Stars with Kepler: Planet Formation, Migration Mechanisms and the Early History of Planetary Systems, eprint arXiv: 1309 - 1520, 2013
Abstract: In recent years there have been many attempts to characterize the occurrence of stellar, BD and planetary - mass companions to solar - type stars, with the aim of constraining formation mechanisms.