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astro-ph2005★ 30 cited
Jupiter's Obliquity and a Long-lived Circumplanetary Disk
I. Mosqueira, P. R. Estrada
It has been claimed (Canup and Ward 2002; Ward 2003) that a long-lived massive (compared to the mass of the Galilean satellites) circumplanetary gas disk is inconsistent with Jupit…
astro-ph2005★ 73 cited
A Gas-poor Planetesimal Capture Model for the Formation of Giant Planet Satellite Systems
P. R. Estrada, I. Mosqueira
Assuming that an unknown mechanism (e.g., gas turbulence) removes most of the subnebula gas disk in a timescale shorter than that for satellite formation, we develop a model for th…