Essays about: "Planet Engulfment"

Found 2 essays containing the words Planet Engulfment.

  1. 1. Planet Engulfment: Do Stars Eat Their Own Children?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teoretisk astrofysik

    Author : Toivo Tuma Niemi; [2019]
    Keywords : Planet Engulfment; Solar Twin; Planet; Star; Planetslukning; Soltvilling; Planet; Stjärna;

    Abstract : Some stars with similar properties to our sun (solar twins) have differ- ent chemical composition than the rest of the solar twins. One explanation might be planet engulfment. Therefore we did a large number of simu- lations where a disturbing star passed a sun and a planet at a distance closer than 100 AU to see how often the planet was engulfed. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Giants and their role in Ragnarök

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation

    Author : Fran Bartolic; [2015]
    Keywords : exoplanets stellar evolution tides planet engulfment; Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : Observed population of giant planets around evolved stars shows a paucity of planets with semi-major axes below 0.5 au, in contrast to main sequence stars where those planets are present. READ MORE