Solar System Formation in the Context of Extrasolar Planets (In Planetary Astrobiology, 2020)



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Full Citation: Raymond, S. N., Izidoro, A., and Morbidelli, A. (2020). Solar System Formation in the Context of Extrasolar Planets. In Planetary Astrobiology (V. S. Meadows et al., eds.), pp. 287-324. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, DOI: 10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816540068-ch012.

Abstract: The discovery of extrasolar planets demonstrated that the current solar system-inspired paradigm of planet formation was on the wrong track. Most extrasolar systems bear little resemblance to our well-ordered solar system. While the solar system is radially segregated by distance from the star, with small inner rocky worlds and more distant giant planets, few known exo-systems follow the same blueprint. Models designed with the goal of reproducing the solar system failed spectacularly to understand why other planetary systems looked different than our own.

Yet exoplanets represent a huge sample of outcomes of planet formation, and new ideas for solar system…

URL: https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816540068

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