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A metallicity sweet spot for disc fragmentation and planet formation
Ethan J. Carter, Dimitris Stamatellos, George Blaylock-Squibbs +2
Fragmentation of gravitationally unstable discs offers an alternate formation mechanism for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs on wide orbits. Metallicity plays a key role in disc…
Revisiting gravitational instability in protostellar discs with improved radiative cooling models
Alison K. Young, Ken Rice, Richard Booth +1
Young discs are expected to be significantly more massive than those observed at Myr and it is at this earliest stage that planet formation likely begins. Such massive discs m…
Dust density enhancements and the direct formation of planetary cores in gravitationally unstable discs
Ken Rice, Hans Baehr, Alison K Young +5
Planet formation via core accretion involves the growth of solids that can accumulate to form planetary cores. There are a number of barriers to the collisional growth of solids in…
Characteristics of small protoplanetary disc warps in kinematic observations
Alison K. Young, Richard Alexander, Giovanni Rosotti +1
Many circumstellar discs appear to have misaligned central regions that give rise to shadows seen in scattered light observations. Small warps ( misalignment) are probab…
Chemical signatures of a warped protoplanetary disc
Alison K. Young, Richard Alexander, Catherine Walsh +3
Circumstellar discs may become warped or broken into distinct planes if there is a stellar or planetary companion with an orbit that is misaligned with respect to the disc. There i…