Publications (70)
The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars
Remo Burn, Martin Schlecker, Christoph Mordasini +5
Previous work concerning planet formation around low-mass stars has often been limited to large planets and individual systems. As current surveys routinely detect planets down to…
Theory of planet formation
Christoph Mordasini, Hubert Klahr, Yann Alibert +2
We review the current theoretical understanding how growth from micro-meter sized dust to massive giant planets occurs in disks around young stars. After introducing a number of ob…
Dynamics of Circumstellar Disks
Andrew F. Nelson, Willy Benz, Fred C. Adams +2
We present a series of 2-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of massive disks around protostars. We simulate the same physical problem using both a `Piecewise Parabolic Method' (P…
Monte Carlo Simulations of Dense Galactic Nuclei
Marc Freitag, Willy Benz
We have developed a new numerical code to simulate the joint evolution of a massive black hole (MBH) and a surrounding stellar cluster at the center of a galaxy. The physics treate…
Radial Drift and Concurrent Ablation of Boulder-Sized Objects
Remo Burn, Ulysse Marboeuf, Yann Alibert +1
Context. The composition of a protoplanetary disk at a given location does not only depend on temperature and pressure but also on the time dependent transport of matter, such as r…
On the Early Evolution of Forming Jovian Planets II: Analysis of Accretion and Gravitational Torques
Andrew F. Nelson, Willy Benz
(abridged) We find that a disk can supply a forming planet with mass at an essentially infinite rate (\mj/25 yr) so that a gap could form very quickly. We show that mass acc…