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GE/AY 133 Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

- P. S. Laplace

Lectures: MWF 1-2pm South Mudd 169 (classroom)

Text: Astrophysics of Planet Formation by P. J. Armitage

The syllabus for the class is available here, and a glossary of useful terms is available here.

lectures & homework assignments

Homework 1

Homework 2

Homework 3

Homework 4

Lecture 0 Introductory Comments

part 1: star formation

Lecture 1 Jeans Length and Mass

Lecture 2 Fragmentation

Lecture 3 Introducing Rotation

Lecture 4 Circumstellar Disks & The Angular Momentum Problem

Lecture 5 Birth Clusters and Stellar Encounters

part 2: Protoplanetary Disks

Lecture 6 Vertical Structure

Lecture 7 Gravitational Stability

Lecture 8 Radial Force Balance

Lecture 9 Thermal Profile

Lecture 10 Thermal Ionization

Lecture 11 Electrical Conductivity

Lecture 12 Magnetospheric Truncation Radius

Lecture 13 Viscous Evolution

Lecture 14 Viscous Accretion: An Example

Lecture 15 Shakura-Sunayev Alpha Prescription

Lecture 16 Constant M-dot Model

Lecture 17 Disk Winds

Lecture 18 Revisiting Stellar Rotation

part 3: FROM dust to planetesimals

Lecture 19 Stokes and Epstein Drag

Lecture 20 Radial Drift of Solids

Lecture 21 Pathways to Planetesimal Formation

Lecture 22 Streaming Instability

Lecture 23 Jeans Mass for Planetesimals

part 4: From Planetesimals to Planets

Lecture 24 Accretion Through Pairwise Collisions

Lecture 25 Pebble Accretion

Lecture 26 Pebble Isolation Mass

Lecture 27 Type-I Migration

Lecture 28 Mean Motion Resonances

Lecture 29 Photo-Evaporation

part 5: Giant Planet Formation

Lecture 30 Gravitational Instability

Lecture 31 Core Accretion

Lecture 32 Type-II Migration

Lecture 33 Grand Tack & The Nice Model

Lecture 34 Hot Jupiters

Lecture 35 Interior Structure & The Radius Anomaly

Lecture 36 Spin-Orbit Misalignments

Lecture 37 Rotational Evolution of Giant Planets