Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Observations of planetary systems
- 2 Protoplanetary disk structure
- 3 Protoplanetary disk evolution
- 4 Planetesimal formation
- 5 Terrestrial planet formation
- 6 Giant planet formation
- 7 Early evolution of planetary systems
- Appendix 1 Physical and astronomical constants
- Appendix 2 N-body methods
- References
- Index
3 - Protoplanetary disk evolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Observations of planetary systems
- 2 Protoplanetary disk structure
- 3 Protoplanetary disk evolution
- 4 Planetesimal formation
- 5 Terrestrial planet formation
- 6 Giant planet formation
- 7 Early evolution of planetary systems
- Appendix 1 Physical and astronomical constants
- Appendix 2 N-body methods
- References
- Index
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- Astrophysics of Planet Formation , pp. 65 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009