Terrestrial Formation in These Synthetic Systems
Model late stages of terrestrial planet formation:
- Keep everything the same except the giant planet system
Six different ones:
........... No giant planets.
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- Start with 100 embryos of M=0.04
and 0.5<a<3AU.
No Mercury! .
- Evolve in gas free environment.
- Integrated for 2x108 years using direct N-body techniques.