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The Dynamical Fate of Self-Gravitating Disc Fragments After Tidal Downsizing
Duncan Forgan, Richard Parker, Ken Rice
The gravitational instability model of planet/brown dwarf formation proposes that protostellar discs can fragment into objects with masses above a few Jupiter masses at large semim…
Can Collimated Extraterrestrial Signals be Intercepted?
Duncan H. Forgan
The Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (OSETI) attempts to detect collimated, narrowband pulses of electromagnetic radiation. These pulses may either consist of signa…
Surface Flux Patterns on Planets in Circumbinary Systems, and Potential for Photosynthesis
Duncan H. Forgan, Alexander Mead, Charles S. Cockell +1
Recently, the Kepler Space Telescope has detected several planets in orbit around a close binary star system. These so-called circumbinary planets will experience non-trivial spati…
The Effect of Planetary Illumination on Climate Modelling of Earthlike Exomoons
Duncan Forgan, Vergil Yotov
From analytical studies of tidal heating, eclipses and planetary illumination, it is clear that the exomoon habitable zone (EHZ) - the set of moon and host planet orbits that permi…