4 papers
The Limited Role of the Streaming Instability During Moon and Exomoon Formation
Miki Nakajima, Jeremy Atkins, Jacob B. Simon +1
It is generally accepted that the Moon accreted from the disk formed by an impact between the proto-Earth and impactor, but its details are highly debated. Some models suggest that…
Effect of Equation of State and Cutoff Density in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of the Moon-Forming Giant Impact
Scott D. Hull, Miki Nakajima, Natsuki Hosono +2
The amount of vapor in the impact-generated protolunar disk carries implications for the dynamics, devolatilization, and moderately volatile element (MVE) isotope fractionation dur…
NcorpiN : A software for N-body integration in collisional and fragmenting systems
Jérémy Couturier, Alice C. Quillen, Miki Nakajima
NcorpiN is a -body software developed for the time-efficient integration of collisional and fragmenting systems of planetesimals or moonlets orbiting a central mass…
Wind erosion and transport on planetesimals
Alice C. Quillen, Stephen Luniewski, Adam E. Rubinstein +3
We consider the possibility that aeolian (wind blown) processes occur on small, 1 to 100~km diameter, planetesimals when they were embedded in the protosolar nebula. Drag from a he…