- Trainer/in: David Ehrenreich
- Trainer/in: Stéphane Udry
- Trainer/in: Julia Venturini
The course presents the different theories and mechanisms of formation of planetary systems to explain the origin of rocky, icy and gaseous giant planets. It also describes the evolution of planetary systems.
The key content and notions addressed in this course include:
· Observational constraints
· Interstellar clouds collapse
· Accretion Disks
· Protoplanetary Disks
· Planetesimals formation
· Terrestrial planets formation
· Giant planets formation / Core accretion / Disk instabilities
· Post-formation evolution and planets migration
· Solar System evolution and the Grand Tack model
· Thermal evolution
· Internal structure and composition
· Mass-radius relationship