3 papers
A metallicity sweet spot for disc fragmentation and planet formation
Ethan J. Carter, Dimitris Stamatellos, George Blaylock-Squibbs +2
Fragmentation of gravitationally unstable discs offers an alternate formation mechanism for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs on wide orbits. Metallicity plays a key role in disc…
Deviations from the universal Initial Mass Function in binary star clusters
Sunder S. K. Singh-Bal, George A. Blaylock-Squibbs, Richard J. Parker +1
The stellar mass distribution in star-forming regions, stellar clusters and associations, the Initial Mass Function (IMF), appears to be invariant across different star-forming env…
No signature of the birth environment of exoplanets from their host stars' Mahalanobis phase space
George A. Blaylock-Squibbs, Richard J. Parker, Emma C. Daffern-Powell
The architectures of extrasolar planetary systems often deviate considerably from the ``standard" model for planet formation, which is largely based on our own Solar System. In par…