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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Giant impacts between proto planets and late stage planetary accumulation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16540382
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Solid earth and planetary physics
Research InstitutionYachiyo International University (2006-2007)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004-2005)

Principal Investigator

EMORI Hiroyuki  Yachiyo International University, Department of business management, Professor (30262257)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAKAZAWA Kiyoshi  Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate school of science and engineering, Professor (10025455)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2007
Keywordsprotoplanet / SPH / Giant Impacts / planetary accumulation / polytrope
Research Abstract

Collisions between protoplanets are common events in the later stage of planetary formation process. Protoplanets grew into present planets through these collisional events. So it is necessary to obtain information about redistribution of mass and angular momentum between colliding two bodies in order to study the growth rates of planets and the origin of their spin. We have started a series of systematic studies on this theme and this is our first report. We concentrate on the impact between one proto planet, which has one Earth mass, and another protoplanet with 0.06 Earth mass. The motion of two bodies are pursued numerically by the SPH simulation method. We change the minimum distance between the two bodies as parameter to specify the orbital angular momentum of them. For each value of the parameter, we repeated the numerical simulations and obtain final states of bodies. Such various final states are examined by criteria developed to distinguish some clusters formed by many SPH particles. We determine instantaneous orbital elements for relative motion between central protoplanet and each cluster. From this information we forecast the destiny of each cluster, for examples to be merged into the target body or trapped. Then we determine initial conditions result to final characteristic states. The 5 states are merging state in which the impactor absorbed to the target, multiple impact state in which the impactor collide with the target again and again, disruption escaping state in which the impactor is tidally disrupted and a large part of the impactor escapes from the target, trapping state in which the impactor is trapped by the target, and passing state in which the impactor passes through as it is.

  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Thermal and Hydrostatic Structure of the Protoplanetary Nebula Exposed to Stellar Radiation and Stellar Wind from the Central Star2007

    • Author(s)
      Yun, YoungSeok
    • Journal Title

      Earth, Planet, and Space 59

      Pages: 631-643

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Thermal and Hydrostatic Structure of the Protoplanetary Nebula Exposed to Stellar Radiation and Stellar Wind from the Central Star2007

    • Author(s)
      Yun, YoungSeok, Emori, Hiroyuki Nakazawa, Kiyoshi
    • Journal Title

      Earth Planet and Space 59

      Pages: 631-643

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Bubble expansion rates in viscous compressible liquid2006

    • Author(s)
      Yamada, Kou
    • Journal Title

      Earth, Planet, and Space 58

      Pages: 865-872

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Bubble expansion rates in viscous compressible liquid2006

    • Author(s)
      Yamada, Kou., Emori, Hiroyuki, Nakazawa, Kiyoshi
    • Journal Title

      Earth Planets and Space 58

      Pages: 865-872

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Anew theory of bubble formation in magma2005

    • Author(s)
      Yamada, Kou
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research 110

      Pages: 2231-2244

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A new theory of bubble formation in magma2005

    • Author(s)
      Yamada, Kou, Tanaka, Hidekazu, Nakazawa, Kiyoshi, Emori, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research 110

      Pages: 2203

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] 原始惑星の軌道不安定性2007

    • Author(s)
      榎森 啓元
    • Organizer
      地球惑星科学関連合同大会
    • Place of Presentation
      幕張メッセ国際会議場
    • Year and Date
      2007-05-22
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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