Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
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Disk Fragmentation as a Planet Formation Scenario

Hans Baehr , MPIA

Circumstellar disks are likely gravitationally unstable early in their lifetimes when massive and still accreting from their surrounding envelopes. These gravitational instabilities will form spirals and possibly fragment into dense clumps of gas which may result in gas giant planets and low-mass stars. My research uses hydrodynamic simulations to focus on what disk conditions result in the formation of planets and do so over various resolutions to ensure convergence.

ITA "blackboard" Colloquium
4 Dec 2017, 11:15
Philosophenweg 12, 106

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