The Role of Giant Impacts in Planet Formation

Nucleation and growth of iron pebbles explains the formation of iron-rich planets akin to Mercury

(2022) Anders Johansen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Building Terrestrial Planets: Why Results of Perfect-merging Simulations Are Not Quantitatively Reliable Approximations to Accurate Modeling of Terrestrial Planet Formation

(2022) Nader Haghighipour et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Atmosphere loss in oblique Super-Earth collisions

(2022) Thomas R Denman et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SPH simulations of high-speed collisions between asteroids and comets

(2022) J. Rozehnal et al.   ICARUS

Growing mars fast: High-resolution GPU simulations of embryo formation

(2021) J.M.Y. Woo et al.   ICARUS

A pebble accretion model for the formation of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System

(2021) Anders Johansen et al.   Science Advances

Statistics of collision parameters computed from 2D simulations

(2021) Á Süli   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Dependencies of Mantle Shock Heating in Pairwise Accretion

(2021) Travis S. J. Gabriel et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scaling laws for the geometry of an impact-induced magma ocean

(2021) Miki Nakajima et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars

(2021) Vardan Adibekyan et al.   SCIENCE

Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation

(2020) Jennifer Scora et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Silicate Melting and Vaporization During Rocky Planet Formation

(2020) E. J. Davies et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Grand challenges for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics numerical schemes

(2020) Renato Vacondio et al.   Computational Particle Mechanics

Linking planetary embryo formation to planetesimal formation. II. The effect of pebble accretion in the terrestrial planet zone

(2020) O. Voelkel et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration. How the radial pebble flux determines the transition from terrestrial planet to super-Earth growth mode

(2019) M. Lambrechts et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Giant impacts stochastically change the internal pressures of terrestrial planets

(2019) Simon J. Lock et al.   Science Advances

Realistic collisional water transport during terrestrial planet formation

(2019) C. Burger et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Principal Hugoniot of Forsterite to 950 GPa

(2018) Seth Root et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

SPH calculations of Mars-scale collisions: The role of the equation of state, material rheologies, and numerical effects

(2018) Alexandre Emsenhuber et al.   ICARUS

The Origin of the Moon Within a Terrestrial Synestia

(2018) Simon J. Lock et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Fragment properties from large-scale asteroid collisions: I: Results from SPH/N-body simulations using porous parent bodies and improved material models

(2018) Martin Jutzi et al.   ICARUS

South Pole–Aitken basin ejecta reveal the Moon’s upper mantle

(2017) H.J. Melosh et al.   GEOLOGY

Impact erosion model for gravity-dominated planetesimals

(2017) Hidenori Genda et al.   ICARUS

CRKSPH – A Conservative Reproducing Kernel Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Scheme

(2017) Nicholas Frontiere et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Constraints on the pre-impact orbits of Solar system giant impactors

(2017) Alan P Jackson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A multiple-impact origin for the Moon

(2017) Raluca Rufu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Unconvergence of very-large-scale giant impact simulations

(2017) Natsuki Hosono et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Impact disruption of gravity-dominated bodies: New simulation data and scaling

(2016) N. Movshovitz et al.   ICARUS

Highly siderophile elements were stripped from Earths mantle by iron sulfide segregation

(2016) D. C. Rubie et al.   SCIENCE

Can we constrain the interior structure of rocky exoplanets from mass and radius measurements?

(2015) Caroline Dorn et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Growing the gas-giant planets by the gradual accumulation of pebbles

(2015) Harold F. Levison et al.   NATURE

A review of mechanisms and models for dynamic failure, strength, and fragmentation

(2015) K.T. Ramesh et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

SPH calculations of asteroid disruptions: The role of pressure dependent failure models

(2015) Martin Jutzi   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Can we constrain the interior structure of rocky exoplanets from mass and radius measurements?

(2015) Caroline Dorn et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Impact Origin of the Moon?

(2014) Erik Asphaug   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Investigation of the initial state of the Moon-forming disk: Bridging SPH simulations and hydrostatic models

(2014) Miki Nakajima et al.   ICARUS

Debris froms giant impacts between planetary embryos at large orbital radii

(2014) Alan P. Jackson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Solar System evolution from compositional mapping of the asteroid belt

(2014) F. E. DeMeo et al.   NATURE

Mercury and other iron-rich planetary bodies as relics of inefficient accretion

(2014) E. Asphaug et al.   Nature Geoscience

Large impacts around a solar-analog star in the era of terrestrial planet formation

(2014) H. Y. A. Meng et al.   SCIENCE

Differentiated Planetesimals and the Parent Bodies of Chondrites

(2013) Benjamin P. Weiss et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

THE FORMATION OF PLUTO'S LOW-MASS SATELLITES

(2013) Scott J. Kenyon et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Late-stage planetary accretion including hit-and-run collisions and fragmentation

(2013) J.E. Chambers   ICARUS

Building Terrestrial Planets

(2012) A. Morbidelli et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

COLLISIONS BETWEEN GRAVITY-DOMINATED BODIES. II. THE DIVERSITY OF IMPACT OUTCOMES DURING THE END STAGE OF PLANET FORMATION

(2012) Sarah T. Stewart et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A hit-and-run giant impact scenario

(2012) Andreas Reufer et al.   ICARUS

Debris from terrestrial planet formation: the Moon-forming collision

(2012) Alan P. Jackson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies

(2012) Mark A. Wieczorek et al.   SCIENCE

Making the Moon from a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning

(2012) M. Cuk et al.   SCIENCE

Protoplanetary Disks and Their Evolution

(2011) Jonathan P. Williams et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Its Diverse Applications

(2011) J.J. Monaghan   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

COLLISIONS BETWEEN GRAVITY-DOMINATED BODIES. I. OUTCOME REGIMES AND SCALING LAWS

(2011) Zoë M. Leinhardt et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MODELING THE FORMATION OF GIANT PLANET CORES. I. EVALUATING KEY PROCESSES

(2010) Harold F. Levison et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

ON A GIANT IMPACT ORIGIN OF CHARON, NIX, AND HYDRA

(2010) Robin M. Canup   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

THE FORMATION OF THE COLLISIONAL FAMILY AROUND THE DWARF PLANET HAUMEA

(2010) Zoë M. Leinhardt et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MINIMUM RADII OF SUPER-EARTHS: CONSTRAINTS FROM GIANT IMPACTS

(2010) Robert A. Marcus et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Similar-sized collisions and the diversity of planets

(2010) Erik Asphaug   CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY

Geophysical consequences of planetary-scale impacts into a Mars-like planet

(2010) Margarita M. Marinova et al.   ICARUS

COLLISIONAL STRIPPING AND DISRUPTION OF SUPER-EARTHS

(2009) Robert A. Marcus et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Shocked H2O ice: Thermal emission measurements and the criteria for phase changes during impact events

(2008) Sarah T. Stewart et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS