Physik der Planetensysteme /
Physics of Planetary Systems


Teil 2 "Entstehung und Entwicklung" / Part 2 "Formation and Evolution"

Alexander Krivov


Inhalt / Plan
  • Introduction
    • Subject of this course
    • Relation to other courses
    • Prerequisites
    • Literature
    • Logistics
  • Historical overview
    • From antiquity to Copernicus
    • From Descartes to Laplace
    • Theories of the 20th century
    • Observational revolution of 1990s
    • Present state of the theory
  • From clouds to disks
    • GMCs and star-forming regions
    • The Jeans criterion
    • From clouds to cores
    • Angular momentum problem
    • From cores to disks
    • Timescales
  • Protoplanetary disks - hydrodynamics
    • Hydrodynamics
    • Viscosity and angular momentum
    • Equations of viscous accretion
  • Protoplanetary disks - physics and structure
    • Shakura-Sunyaev model
    • Viscosity and turbulences
    • Disk structure
    • Disk observations
  • Protoplanetary disks - lifetimes and masses
    • Disk lifetimes
    • Disk masses
    • Disk stability
    • Two scenarios of planet formation
  • Dust-gas interactions
    • Condensation of solids
    • Forces on dust grains
    • Vertical motion: sedimentation
    • Stopping time and settling time
    • Vertical motion: settling-mixing
    • Radial motion: drift
    • Dust in the midplane
  • From dust to planetesimals
    • Observations, experiments, modeling
    • Sticking or Goldreich-Ward instability?
    • Dust morphology
    • From 1 micron to 1 mm
    • From 1 mm to 1 m
    • From 1m to 1km
  • From planetesimals to planetary embryos
    • Kinematics of a planetesimal swarm
    • Runaway growth
    • Oligarchic growth
    • Isolation of oligarchs
  • From embryos to planets
    • Formation of Juipter and Saturn
    • Formation of Uranus and Neptune
    • Endgame for terrestrial planets
  • Hot Jupiters and migration
    • Demographics of extrasolar planets
    • Disk-planet interactions
    • Type I migration
    • Type II migration
    • Type III migration
    • Discussion of migration
  • Other exoplanet populations
    • Super-Earths
    • Resonant systems
    • Eccentric planets
    • Inclined planets
    • Massive distant planets
  • Left-over planetesimals
    • Asteroid belt, EKB, and Oort cloud
    • Basic features of the Kuiper belt
    • Dynamical evolution of the Kuiper belt
    • Late heavy bombardment
  • Debris disks
    • What are debris disks?
    • Observations: Vega phenomenon, resolved examples, statistics
    • Internal physics of debris disks
    • Debris disks and gas
    • Debris disks and small bodies
    • Debris disks and planets

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