2 papers
astro-ph.EP2015
The Kepler Dichotomy in Planetary Disks: Linking Kepler Observables to Simulations of Late-Stage Planet Formation
John Moriarty, Sarah Ballard
NASA's Kepler Mission uncovered a wealth of planetary systems, many with planets on short-period orbits. These short-period systems reside around 50% of Sun-like stars and are simi…
astro-ph.EP2015
Building massive compact planetesimal disks from the accretion of pebbles
John Moriarty, Debra Fischer
We present a model in which planetesimal disks are built from the combination of planetesimal formation and accretion of radially drifting pebbles onto existing planetesimals. In t…