Planet formation mini-course

         Lectures: 14:00 to 15:00 in Room HL 427
         Tuesday, June 5 2007
         Friday, June 8 2007
         Wednesday, June 13 2007

There are no ideal textbooks or reviews of planet formation. Some
combination of the following articles should provide most of the
information you need:

Reipurth, B., Jewitt, D., & Kell, K., eds. 2007, Protostars and Planets V
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press). This massive book is the latest in
the series of "Protostars and Planets" books dating back thirty years.
You can pick and choose from the review articles.

Lissauer, J. 1993, ARAA 31, 129. A good review; somewhat dated but an
important snapshot of the state of the field just before extrasolar
planets were discovered

Lissauer, J. 2005, Sp. Sci. Rev. 116, 11. A clear, concise review with
plenty of references, focused on the formation of the outer planets.


Lecture 1:

slides (.ppt file)
assignment (.ps file)

For an up-to-date summary of the observational status of extrasolar planet searches see the 
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. There is even a nice interactive feature that allows
histograms and scatter plots to be generated automatically.

For masses, physical properties, orbits, etc. of solar-system
objects see the JPL solar system dynamics site
Cooling curves for stars, brown dwarfs, and giant planets are given 
in the review of brown dwarfs by Burrows et al. 2001, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 719

The standard solar model is available on David Guenther's web site here

For descriptions of the minimum solar nebula, see
Weidenschilling, S. 1977, Ap&SS 51, 153
Hayashi, C. 1981, Prog. Theor. Phys. Supp. 70, 35

The recent discussions of the disk-instability hypothesis date from the
following influential paper:
Boss, A. P. 1997, Science 276, 1836

For a recent review see
Durisen, R. H., et al. 2007, in Protostars and Planets V (astro-ph/0603179)

Toomre's Q parameter is described in
Toomre, A. 1964, ApJ 139, 1217

or in
Binney, J. J., & Tremaine, S. 1987, Galactic Dynamics (Princeton:
Princeton University Press) Note that a second edition is scheduled to
come out early in 2008; you can get a pdf file of the near-final
version here (51 MB), if you promise to buy the book when it comes out!

Lecture 2:

slides (.ppt file)

assignment (.ps file)

The concept of planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable
thin layer of dust particles is described by
Goldreich, P., & Ward, W. R. 1973, ApJ 183, 1051

A very good recent review of planet formation that covers observations
of extrasolar planets, dust condensation and settling, planetesimal growth,
and migration is
J.C.B. Papaloizou & C. Terquem 2006, Rep. Prog. Phys. 69, 119

A comprehensive discussion of the coagulation and growth of solid bodies
in a protoplanetary disk is given by
Goldreich, P., Lithwick, Y., & Sari, R. 2004, ARAA 42, 549

Lecture 3:

slides (.ppt file)

assignment (.ps file)

Oort's classic paper on comets is at
Oort, J. H. 1950, BAN 11, 91

More recent comet reviews are:

Festou, M. C., Keller, H. U., & Weaver, H., eds. 2004, Comets II
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press). A book of review articles.

Fernandez, J. A. 2005, Comets: nature, dynamics, origin and their
cosmological relevance (Dordrecht: Springer)

Fernandez, J. A. 2002, Earth, Moon & Planets 89, 325

Dones, L., Weissman, P. R., Levison, H. F., & Duncan, M. J. 2004, in
Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium, ASP Conference Proceedings
323, eds. D. Johnstone, F.C. Adams, D.N.C. Lin, D.A. Neufeld, and
E.C. Ostriker (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 371


For a recent review of the Kuiper belt see

Luu, J. X., & Jewitt, D. C. 2002, ARAA 40, 63


The classic treatment of collisional cascades is

Dohnanyi, J. W. 1969, J. Geophys. Res. 74, 2531

A more recent, informal treatment that includes the gravity-dominated regime is

Pan, M., & Sari, R. 2005, Icarus 173, 342

For a discussion of "rubble-pile" models of asteroids, see

Richardson, D. C., et al. 2002, in Asteroids III, ed. W. F. Bottke et al. (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press), 501