From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation Saas-Fee Advanced Course 45. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy /

• Main Authors: Armitage, Philip J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kley, Wilhelm (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Audard, Marc (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Meyer, Michael R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Alibert, Yann (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course, 45
• Subjects: Astrophysics.; Planetary science.; Planetology.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Planetary Sciences.

Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not? This...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Physical Processes in Protoplanetary Disks
• Preamble
• Observational Context
• Disk Structure
• Disk Evolution
• Turbulence
• Episodic Accretion
• Single and Collective Particle Evolution
• 1.8 Structure Formation in Protoplanetary Disks
• Disk Dispersal
• References
• Part 2: Planet Formation and Disk-Planet Interactions
• Introduction
• 2.2 From Dust to Planetesimals
• Terrestrial Planet Formation
• The Formation of Massive Planets by Core Accretion
• Planets Formed by Gravitational Instability
• Planet-Disk Interaction
• Multi-body Systems
• References.