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Early Evolution of Stellar Groups and Clusters: Environmental Effects on Forming Planetary Systems
Fred C. Adams, Eva M. Proszkow, Marco Fatuzzo +1
This paper studies the dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters with = 100 - 1000 members. We use N-body simulations to explore how evolution depends on system size an…
Giant Planet Migration through the Action of Disk Torques and Planet Scattering
Althea V. Moorhead, Fred C. Adams
This paper presents a parametric study of giant planet migration through the combined action of disk torques and planet-planet scattering. The torques exerted on planets during Typ…
Orbits in Extended Mass Distributions: General Results and the Spirographic Approximation
Fred C. Adams, Anthony M. Bloch
This paper explores orbits in extended mass distributions and develops an analytic approximation scheme based on epicycloids (spirograph patterns). We focus on the Hernquist potent…
Lithopanspermia in Star Forming Clusters
Fred C. Adams, David N. Spergel
This paper considers the lithopanspermia hypothesis in star forming groups and clusters, where the chances of biological material spreading from one solar system to another is grea…
Double Field Inflation
Fred C. Adams, Katherine Freese
We present an inflationary universe model which utilizes two coupled real scalar fields. The inflation field experiences a first order phase transition and its potential domina…