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Stellar irradiated discs and implications on migration of embedded planets I: equilibrium discs
Bertram Bitsch, Aurélien Crida, Alessandro Morbidelli +2
The strength and direction of migration of low mass planets depends on the disc's thermodynamics. In discs where the viscous heating is balanced by radiative transport, the migrati…
Circum-planetary discs as bottlenecks for gas accretion onto giant planets
Guillaume Rivier, Aurélien Crida, Alessandro Morbidelli +1
With hundreds of exoplanets detected, it is necessary to revisit giant planets accretion models to explain their mass distribution. In particular, formation of sub-jovian planets r…
Dynamical capture in the Pluto-Charon system
P. M. Pires dos Santos, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorný
This paper explores the possibility that the progenitors of the small satellites of Pluto got captured in the Pluto-Charon system from the massive heliocentric planetesimal disk in…
Building Terrestrial Planets
Alessandro Morbidelli, Jonathan I. Lunine, David P. O`brien +2
This paper reviews our current understanding of terrestrial planets formation. The focus is on computer simulations of the dynamical aspects of the accretion process. Throughout th…
Dynamics of pebbles in the vicinity of a growing planetary embryo: hydro-dynamical simulations
Alessandro Morbidelli, David Nesvorny
Understanding the growth of the cores of giant planets is a difficult problem. Recently, Lambrechts and Johansen (2012; LJ12) proposed a new model in which the cores grow by the ac…
NOTE: Explaining why the Uranian satellites have equatorial prograde orbits despite the large planetary obliquity
Alessandro Morbidelli, Kleomenis Tsiganis, Konstantin Batygin +2
We show that the existence of prograde equatorial satellites is consistent with a collisional tilting scenario for Uranus. In fact, if the planet was surrounded by a proto-satellit…