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Dust traps as planetary birthsites: basics and vortex formation
James E. Owen, Juna A. Kollmeier
We present a simple model for low-mass planet formation and subsequent evolution within "transition" discs. We demonstrate quantitatively that the predicted and observed structure…
Blueshifted [OI] lines from protoplanetary discs: the smoking gun of X-ray photoevaporation
Barbara Ercolano, James Owen
Photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs by high energy radiation from the central young stellar object is currently the favourite model to explain the sudden dispersal of discs fr…
Water loss from Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of ultracool dwarfs: Implications for the planets of TRAPPIST-1
Emeline Bolmont, Franck Selsis, James E. Owen +4
Ultracool dwarfs (UCD; K) cool to settle on the main sequence after 1 Gyr. For brown dwarfs, this cooling never stops. Their habitable zone (HZ) thus s…
Disk-fed giant planet formation
James E. Owen, Kristen Menou
Massive giant planets, such as the ones being discovered by direct imaging surveys, likely experience the majority of their growth through a circumplanetary disc. We argue that the…
Rapid radiative clearing of protoplanetary discs
Thomas J. Haworth, Cathie J. Clarke, James E. Owen
The lack of observed transition discs with inner gas holes of radii greater than ~50AU implies that protoplanetary discs dispersed from the inside out must remove gas from the oute…
Habitability of Terrestrial-Mass Planets in the HZ of M Dwarfs. I. H/He-Dominated Atmospheres
James E. Owen, Subhanjoy Mohanty
The ubiquity of M dwarfs, combined with the relative ease of detecting terrestrial-mass planets around them, has made them prime targets for finding and characterising planets in t…