ERC Starting Grant · 2021
EXOplanet Diversity and the Origin of the Solar System
The ongoing discovery of ever-more Earth-like exoplanets raises the question how these planets form. Answering this question requires a breakthrough in our understanding of terrestrial planet formation, since this topic has previously been studied almost exclusively in the context of the Solar System and with an emphasis on the late-stage giant-impact phase. However, recently, a window into the very earliest stages of planet formation has opened through radio observations of protoplanetary discs around young stars that reveal large reservoirs of mm-sized pebbles. In EXODOSS, I will model the full planetary growth process, starting from these primordial pebbles, in order to improve our…
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