Origin of satellite systems around giant planets: Supply of building material of satellites to circumplanetary disks

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26800229
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Solid earth and planetary physics
• Research Institution: Ichinoseki National College of Technology (2016-2017); University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Tanigawa Takayuki 一関工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, 准教授 (30422554)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 衛星 / 周惑星円盤 / 巨大ガス惑星

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Satellite systems around giant planets are believed to be formed in circumplanetary disks, which would exist when the giant planets are actively growing. However, there are no research on how solid material, which is building block of the satellites, is delivered to the circumplanetary disks. We thus study the physical mechanisms of how solid material is supplied to the circumplanetary disks from protoplanetary disks.

Free Research Field

惑星系形成理論