Sentences with phrase «models for planet formation»

In doing so, we will test our models for planet formation and evaluate the probability that habitable planets are present around stars of various types.

Not exact matches

We were very surprised based on the fact that previous models people used for planet formation suggested a much higher critical shock pressure,» says Richard Kraus, now a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lead author on the paper published in March in Nature Geoscience.

Scott Kenyon, a theorist at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who builds numerical models of planet formation, echoes that assessment.

One of the reigning theories of planetary formation, the Grand Tack model, blames Jupiter for the Red Planet's paltry size.

If confirmed by further research, the new study would challenge a theoretical model for atmosphere formation in which Earth began with two reservoirs of solar gas captured during the planet's formation and youth — one surrounding the planet, the other buried beneath the surface.

«Jupiter is the oldest planet of the solar system, and its solid core formed well before the solar nebula gas dissipated, consistent with the core accretion model for giant planet formation.»

At this school, we will review physical models for cloud formation in Solar System planets, exoplanet observations, and laboratory studies.

We are excited to connect and compare planet formation models and their predictions to exoplanet populations; we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in planet formation, exoplanet population studies, and / or statistical assessment of exoplanet surveys,

So, if there is a planet in the gap and there is no dust larger than a grain of sand farther out, we have provided a challenge for traditional planet formation models.»

Numerous teams in the world are developing models and simulations, for example to reproduce the physical processes driving the formation of planets in circumstellar discs, the evolution of their orbits through migration or mutual interaction, or the properties of their atmospheres.

The well - determined planetary properties and unusually large mass also make this planet an important benchmark for theoretical models of super-Jupiter formation.

Assuming the rocky world has the smallest physical size allowed for its mass (94 % Earth's diameter), according to planetary formation models this would consist of a metal core, making up for 65 % of the mass of the entire planet.

Modeling long - term climate change for the entire planet, however, was held back by lack of computer power, ignorance of key processes such as cloud formation, inability to calculate the crucial ocean circulation, and insufficient data on the world's actual climate.