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Planet Formation Mechanisms
Chris Ormel
Planet formation encompasses processes that span a remarkable 40 magnitudes in mass, ranging from collisions between micron-sized grains inherited from the ISM to the accretion of…
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Pebble Accretion
C. W. Ormel
Pebble accretion refers to the growth of planetary bodies through the accretion of pebble-sized particles. Pebbles are defined in terms of their aerodynamically size , which…
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ExoLyn: a golden mean approach to multi-species cloud modelling in atmospheric retrieval
Helong Huang, Chris W. Ormel, Michiel Min
Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanets' atmospheres and play an important role in setting the opacity and chemical inventory of the atmosphere. Understanding clouds is a crit…