3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
A "New Hope" for Moon Formation: Presenting a Multiple Impact Pathway
Harrison Davies, Philip J. Carter, Louis Eddershaw +2
The leading hypothesis for the origin of the Moon, that of a single giant impact, faces significant challenges. These include either the need for an impactor with a near-identical…
astro-ph.EP2025
Atmospheric loss during giant impacts: mechanisms and scaling of near- and far-field loss
Matthew J. Roche, Simon J. Lock, Jingyao Dou +3
The primary epoch of planetary accretion concludes with giant impacts - highly energetic collisions between proto-planets that can play a key role in shaping a planet's inventory o…
astro-ph.EP2024
Exploring the catastrophic regime: thermodynamics and disintegration in head-on planetary collisions
Jingyao Dou, Philip J Carter, Simon Lock +1
Head-on giant impacts (collisions between planet-size bodies) are frequently used to study the planet formation process as they present an extreme configuration where the two colli…