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Water delivery to dry protoplanets by hit-and-run collisions
C. Burger, T. I. Maindl, C. M. Schäfer
Final water inventories of newly formed terrestrial planets are shaped by their collision history. A setting where volatiles are transported from beyond the snowline to habitable-z…
Transfer, loss and physical processing of water in hit-and-run collisions of planetary embryos
C. Burger, T. I. Maindl, C. M. Schäfer
Collisions between large, similar-sized bodies are believed to shape the final characteristics and composition of terrestrial planets. Their inventories of volatiles such as water,…
Numerical Simulations of Regolith Sampling Processes
Christoph M. Schäfer, Samuel Scherrer, Robert Buchwald +3
We present recent improvements in the simulation of regolith sampling processes in microgravity using the numerical particle method smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We use an e…
Water transport to circumprimary habitable zones from icy planetesimal disks in binary star systems
D. Bancelin, E. Pilat-Lohinger, T. I. Maindl +1
So far, more than 130 extrasolar planets have been found in multiple stellar systems. Dynamical simulations show that the outcome of the planetary formation process can lead to dif…
A smooth particle hydrodynamics code to model collisions between solid, self-gravitating objects
Christoph M. Schäfer, Sven Riecker, Thomas I. Maindl +3
Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architectu…
On the probability of the collision of a Mars-sized planet with the Earth to form the Moon
Rudolf Dvorak, Birgit Loibnegger, Thomas I. Maindl
The problem of the formation of the Moon is still not explained satisfactorily. While it is a generally accepted scenario that the last giant impact on Earth between some 50 to 100…