Location
Toomey Hall, Room 199
Presentation Date
April 22, 2023, 8:30am-10:00am
Session
Session 5s
Description
The most common planets within 1 AU of a star are a few Earth radii in size, dubbed 'super- Earths', and these planets exhibit a wide range of compositions and orbit properties. Yet our Solar system lacks a super-Earth. It is also known that it is possible for exoplanet systems to include a massive planet with an orbit distance of a few AU from the host star, similar to Jupiter in our solar system. It is natural to then question how the presence of such a massive, distant planet may affect the overall exoplanet system. This project investigated how the presence of a Jupiter-like planet impacts the formation history of the inner planets in an exoplanet system by running simulations of evolving planetary systems, analyzing their results, and comparing them against simulations that were nearly identical, except that they did not have a Jupiter-like planet present.
Meeting Name
32nd Annual Spring Meeting of the NASA-Mo Space Grant Consortium
Document Type
Presentation
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 The Authors, all rights reserved.
Distant Giant Planets and their Influence on Inner Planet Formation
Toomey Hall, Room 199
The most common planets within 1 AU of a star are a few Earth radii in size, dubbed 'super- Earths', and these planets exhibit a wide range of compositions and orbit properties. Yet our Solar system lacks a super-Earth. It is also known that it is possible for exoplanet systems to include a massive planet with an orbit distance of a few AU from the host star, similar to Jupiter in our solar system. It is natural to then question how the presence of such a massive, distant planet may affect the overall exoplanet system. This project investigated how the presence of a Jupiter-like planet impacts the formation history of the inner planets in an exoplanet system by running simulations of evolving planetary systems, analyzing their results, and comparing them against simulations that were nearly identical, except that they did not have a Jupiter-like planet present.
