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Blinding Lights: Simulation-Based Evidence for Terrestrial Giant Impacts as Astronomically Observable Events
Lucy Taylor, Simon J. Lock, Philip J. Carter +1
Giant impacts (collisions between planet-sized bodies) are violent events that fundamentally alter the properties of planets and the structure of planetary systems. Observations of…
Giant impacts preferentially remove low-mass atmospheres: a generalised scaling law for impact-driven atmospheric loss
Matthew J. Roche, Simon J. Lock, Philip J. Carter +1
Impact-driven atmospheric loss plays a key role in shaping the diversity of planetary atmospheres. However, existing prescriptions for calculating loss from a given impact neglect…
Tectonics on early Earth driven by Earth's changing shape during tidal recession of the Moon
Simon J. Lock
Few fragments of Earth's earliest crust have survived, and so this formative period of our planet's history is shrouded in mystery. To leverage the limited data available, it is im…
Can giant impacts be directly detected in other star systems?
Pavan Tanna, Simon Lock, Amy Bonsor +2
Giant impacts, collisions between planet-sized bodies, play an important role in planet and moon formation. As we enter a new era of large-scale surveys, such as \textit{Gaia} and…
Thermal and rotational effects of giant impacts during terrestrial planet accretion
Adriana N. Postema, Simon J. Lock, Sarah T. Stewart
Terrestrial planets likely experienced one or more giant impacts during their formation that inflicted large thermal, chemical, and rotational perturbations. The early states of te…
Asteroids fail to retain cometary impact signatures
Sarah Joiret, Guillaume Avice, Ludovic Ferrière +4
A bombardment of comets is thought to have occurred in the inner solar system as a result of a dynamical instability among the giant planets after gas disk dispersal. Vesta, the se…
Atmospheric loss during giant impacts: mechanisms and scaling of near- and far-field loss
Matthew J. Roche, Simon J. Lock, Jingyao Dou +3
The primary epoch of planetary accretion concludes with giant impacts - highly energetic collisions between proto-planets that can play a key role in shaping a planet's inventory o…
Exploring the catastrophic regime: thermodynamics and disintegration in head-on planetary collisions
Jingyao Dou, Philip J Carter, Simon Lock +1
Head-on giant impacts (collisions between planet-size bodies) are frequently used to study the planet formation process as they present an extreme configuration where the two colli…
A planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloud
Matthew Kenworthy, Simon Lock, Grant Kennedy +19
Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk. Monit…