Langbeschreibung
Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1: Physical Processes in Protoplanetary Disks.- Preamble.- Observational Context.- Disk Structure.- Disk Evolution.- Turbulence.- Episodic Accretion.- Single and Collective Particle Evolution.- 1.8 Structure Formation in Protoplanetary Disks.- Disk Dispersal.- References.- Part 2: Planet Formation and Disk-Planet Interactions.- Introduction.- 2.2 From Dust to Planetesimals.- Terrestrial Planet Formation.- The Formation of Massive Planets by Core Accretion.- Planets Formed by Gravitational Instability.- Planet-Disk Interaction.- Multi-body Systems.- References.