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Formation of bi-lobed shapes by sub-catastrophic collisions: A late origin of comet 67P/C-G's structure
M. Jutzi, W. Benz
The origin of the particular shape of a small body like comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) is a topic of active research. How and when it acquired its peculiar characteristi…
How primordial is the structure of comet 67P/C-G? Combined collisional and dynamical models suggest a late formation
M. Jutzi, W. Benz, A. Toliou +2
There is an active debate about whether the properties of comets as observed today are primordial or, alternatively, if they are a result of collisional evolution or other processe…
Planet Population Synthesis
W. Benz, S. Ida, Y. Alibert +2
With the increasing number of exoplanets discovered, statistical properties of the population as a whole become unique constraints on planet formation models provided a link betwee…
The PLATO 2.0 Mission
H. Rauer, C. Catala, C. Aerts +159
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it…
CHEOPS: A Transit Photometry Mission for ESA's Small Mission Programme
C. Broeg, A. Fortier, D. Ehrenreich +18
Ground based radial velocity (RV) searches continue to discover exoplanets below Neptune mass down to Earth mass. Furthermore, ground based transit searches now reach milli-mag pho…
Planet formation models: the interplay with the planetesimal disc
A. Fortier, Y. Alibert, F. Carron +2
According to the sequential accretion model, giant planet formation is based first on the formation of a solid core which, when massive enough, can gravitationally bind gas from th…
Dust-trapping Rossby vortices in protoplanetary disks
H. Meheut, Z. Meliani, P. Varniere +1
One of the most challenging steps in planet formation theory is the one leading to the formation of planetesimals of kilometre size. A promising scenario involves the existence of…
Formation and long-term evolution of 3D vortices in protoplanetary discs
H. Meheut, R. Keppens, F. Casse +1
In the context of planet formation, anticyclonic vortices have recently received lots of attention for the role they can play in planetesimals formation. Radial migration of interm…
Application of recent results on the orbital migration of low mass planets: convergence zones
C. Mordasini, K. -M. Dittkrist, Y. Alibert +3
Previous models of the combined growth and migration of protoplanets needed large ad hoc reduction factors for the type I migration rate as found in the isothermal approximation. I…
CoRoT-10b: a giant planet in a 13.24 day eccentric orbit
A. S. Bonomo, A. Santerne, R. Alonso +47
The space telescope CoRoT searches for transiting extrasolar planets by continuously monitoring the optical flux of thousands of stars in several fields of view. We report the disc…