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Forming Stars and Planets II
& Our Solar System
  • Lecture 14 Ay-1
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Lecture 11: Summary
  • all planets (terrestrial & Jovian) orbit Sun counterclockwise
  • system extends to ~ 10,000 AU (Oort cloud)
  • most orbits ~ circular & close to ecliptic plane
  • planetary motions follow Kepler’s laws
  • 1 AU  = 1.5 x 1013 cm  (or 149,597,870 km)
  • solar system formed 4.6 Byrs ago in a rotating,
  •    circumstellar disk of gas and dust
  • follow evolution by observing sources at different epochs


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planet-forming disks in Orion
stars £ 1 Myr
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HR 4796: age ~ 10 Myrs
  • A0 star ( 2 M¤) at 67 pc
  • dust ring width ~ 17 AU, radius 70 AU
  • collisionally-produced debris?
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b Pictoris ~ 20 Myrs
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Vega :  350 Myrs
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Epsilon Eridani :  ~ 0.5 -1 Byr
  • distance  ~ 10 lyrs
  • 850 mm dust emission            ® ring, mass ~ 0.2 MÅ
  • inner radius 35 AU              ~ Neptune’s orbit
  • outer radius 75 AU              ~ Kuiper Belt
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CARMA
Combined Array for Research in mm-wave Astronomy
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Condensation sequence :
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Venus
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Planetary radiative equilibrium
  • Energy absorbed = Energy radiated
  • (L/(4pd2))pr2 = 4pr2sT4
  • T = 278 (L¤/d2AU)1/4 K


  • Greenhouse effect :
  •     Earth’s atmosphere relatively transparent to solar  radiation (heating)
  • but re-radiation (cooling) in infrared is impeded (photons absorbed by CO2, H2O)
  • For Venus, greenhouse effect is enormous
  • due to CO2, T = 600K  (could happen at Earth)



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Saturn
  • density 0.69 gm/cc
  • belt zones like Jupiter but under a methane haze and less visible
  • 24 moons - cause gaps in rings due to gravitational perturbations
    • Titan largest ~ Mercury mass
    • 1.5 x moon atmosphere; methane and nitrogen smog
    • surface cold - ice (179K); reverse greenhouse effect - smog blocks sunlight

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