{"id":193935,"date":"2024-08-02T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T23:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-model-challenges-giant-planet-formation-hypothesis"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T23:28:54","slug":"new-model-challenges-giant-planet-formation-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-model-challenges-giant-planet-formation-hypothesis","title":{"rendered":"New Model Challenges Giant Planet Formation Hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How do giant planets form and is this process slow or fast based on the amount of available dust used to build those planets? This is what a recent study<\/a> published in Astronomy & Astrophysics<\/em> hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated how sub-micron-sized dust<\/a> kicks off the planetary formation process within a protoplanetary disc. This study holds the potential to help scientists better understand the formation and evolution of planets throughout our solar system and exoplanetary systems, as well.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers developed first-of-its-kind model to involve all constituents responsible for the physical processes that from planets. Focusing on sub-micron-sized dust, they included factors such as pebble accumulation, planetary gas buildup, planetary migration, and dust buildup, among others. In the end, they found that ring-shaped disturbances in the protoplanetary disk, which they refer to as substructures, can result in multiple gas giants\u2019 formation in rapid sequence.<\/p>\n

Dr. Til Birnstiel, who is a professor of theoretical astrophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen and a co-author on the study, said<\/a>: \u201cWhen a planet gets large enough to influence the gas disk, this leads to renewed dust enrichment farther out in the disk. In the process, the planet drives the dust \u2013 like a sheepdog chasing its herd \u2013 into the area outside its own orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do giant planets form and is this process slow or fast based on the amount of available dust used to build those planets? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated how sub-micron-sized dust kicks off the planetary formation process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}