1 / 19

PX437 EXOPLANETS

PX437 EXOPLANETS. Peter Wheatley (PS009) p.j.wheatley@warwick.ac.uk. Terrestrial planets. Gas giants. Ice giants. Kuiper belt. Asteroid belt. IAU. Planets, dwarf planets, small solar-system bodies. Ceres: dwarf planet. Typical asteroid: small solar-system body. HST.

romney
Download Presentation

PX437 EXOPLANETS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. PX437 EXOPLANETS Peter Wheatley (PS009) p.j.wheatley@warwick.ac.uk

  2. Terrestrial planets Gas giants Ice giants Kuiper belt Asteroid belt IAU

  3. Planets, dwarf planets, small solar-system bodies Ceres: dwarf planet Typical asteroid: small solar-system body HST

  4. Evolutionary tracks - luminosity Burrows et al. 1997, ApJ 491, 856 Burrows et al. 2001, RvMP, 73, 719 Stars Brown dwarfs Planets Jupiter Saturn

  5. Stars Brown dwarfs Evolutionary tracks - radius Burrows et al. 2001, RvMP, 73, 719 Planets

  6. Mass-radius relation Jupiter

  7. Equations of state Stevenson 1982 AREPS 10, 257

  8. Composition of solar system planets Stevenson 1982 AREPS 10, 257

  9. Terrestrial planets Gas giants Ice giants Kuiper belt Asteroid belt IAU

  10. Nebula hypothesis Rich Townsend, UCL

  11. Tidal model Stephen Oxley

  12. Cosmic abundance (by number)

  13. Condensation by temperature

  14. Growth of solids Blum et al 1998 Blum & Wurm 2008

  15. Gas accretion Pollack et al 1996

  16. Single-slit diffraction

  17. 51 Peg in DSS-II

More Related