EXOplanet Diversity and the Origin of the Solar System

HORIZON.1.1HORIZON-ERCID: 101041466
EC Contribution
€14,989
Consortium Size
1 orgs
Summary

The ongoing discovery of ever-more Earth-like exoplanets raises the question how these planets form. Answering this question requires a breakthrough in our understanding of terrestrial planet formation, since this topic has previously been studied almost exclusively in the context of the Solar System and with an emphasis on the late-stage giant-impact phase. However, recently, a window into the very earliest stages of planet formation has opened through radio observations of protoplanetary discs around young stars that reveal large reservoirs of mm-sized pebbles. In EXODOSS, I will model the full planetary growth process, starting from these primordial pebbles, in order to improve our fundamental understanding of terrestrial planet formation. In order to do so, I will develop a first-of-its-kind GPU-accelerated N-body simulator that models planetary growth and composition in a protoplanetary disc where angular momentum is transported by disc winds. The code will follow the growth of the first pebbles and km-sized planetesimals to larger protoplanets, up to the late dynamical evolution of fully-grown planetary systems. Additional supporting hydrodynamical simulations will provide much needed accurate prescriptions for the evolution of the protoplanetary disc and for the accretion rates of pebbles and gas onto the cores and atmospheres of young protoplanets. Taken together, I will establish a self-consistent model of planet formation capable of addressing how Earth-like planets form, with results that can be confronted against dynamical and compositional constraints from the Solar System and the growing population of well-characterized Earth-like exoplanets. These theoretical investigations are needed in the broader context of humanity's search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets in our galaxy, our desire to understand their formation, and as a first step in tracing the origin of the elements, such as water, required for the development of life as we know it.

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Project Results (17)

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Publications (17)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy& Astrophysics· 2025DOI
J. Appelgren; A. Johansen; M. Lambrechts; J. Jørgensen; N. van der Marel; N. Ohashi; J. Tobin
The influence of dust growth on the observational properties of circumplanetary discs
Astronomy & Astrophysics· 2025DOI
Matthäus Schulik, Bertram Bitsch, Anders Johansen, Michiel Lambrechts
The PLATO mission
Experimental Astronomy· 2025DOI
Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera, Magali Deleuil, Anders Erikson, Laurent Gizon, Mariejo Goupil, Ana Heras, Thomas Walloschek, Jose Lorenzo-Alvarez, Filippo Marliani, César Martin-Garcia, J. Miguel Mas-Hesse, Laurence O’Rourke, Hugh Osborn, Isabella Pagano, Giampaolo Piotto, Don Pollacco, Roberto Ragazzoni, Gavin Ramsay, Stéphane Udry, Thierry Appourchaux, Willy Benz, Alexis Brandeker, Manuel Güdel, Eduardo Janot-Pacheco, Petr Kabath, Hans Kjeldsen, Michiel Min, Nuno Santos, Alan Smith, Juan-Carlos Suarez, Stephanie C. Werner, Alessio Aboudan, Manuel Abreu, Lorena Acuña, Moritz Adams, Vardan Adibekyan, Laura Affer, François Agneray, Craig Agnor, Victor Aguirre Børsen-Koch, Saad Ahmed, Suzanne Aigrain, Ashraf Al-Bahlawan, Ma de los Angeles Alcacera Gil, Eleonora Alei, Silvia Alencar, Richard Alexander, Julia Alfonso-Garzón, Yann Alibert, Carlos Allende Prieto, Leonardo Almeida, Roi Alonso Sobrino, Giuseppe Altavilla, Christian Althaus, Luis Alonso Alvarez Trujillo, Anish Amarsi, Matthias Ammler-von Eiff, Eduardo Amôres, Laerte Andrade, Alexandros Antoniadis-Karnavas, Carlos António, Beatriz Aparicio del Moral, Matteo Appolloni, Claudio Arena, David Armstrong, Jose Aroca Aliaga, Martin Asplund, Jeroen Audenaert, Natalia Auricchio, Pedro Avelino, Ann Baeke, Kevin Baillié, Ana Balado, Pau Ballber Balagueró, Andrea Balestra, Warrick Ball, Herve Ballans, Jerome Ballot, Caroline Barban, Gaële Barbary, Mauro Barbieri, Sebastià Barceló Forteza, Adrian Barker, Paul Barklem, Sydney Barnes, David Barrado Navascues, Oscar Barragan, Clément Baruteau, Sarbani Basu, Frederic Baudin, Philipp Baumeister, Daniel Bayliss, Michael Bazot, Paul G. Beck, Kevin Belkacem, Earl Bellinger, Serena Benatti, Othman Benomar, Diane Bérard, Maria Bergemann, Maria Bergomi, Pierre Bernardo, Katia Biazzo, Andrea Bignamini, Lionel Bigot, Nicolas Billot, Martin Binet, David Biondi, Federico Biondi, Aaron C. Birch, Bertram Bitsch, Paz Victoria Bluhm Ceballos, Attila Bódi, Zsófia Bognár, Isabelle Boisse, Emeline Bolmont, Alfio Bonanno, Mariangela Bonavita, Andrea Bonfanti, Xavier Bonfils, Rosaria Bonito, Aldo Stefano Bonomo, Anko Börner, Sudeshna Boro Saikia, Elisa Borreguero Martín, Francesco Borsa, Luca Borsato, Diego Bossini, Francois Bouchy, Gwenaël Boué, Rodrigo Boufleur, Patrick Boumier, Vincent Bourrier, Dominic M. Bowman, Enrico Bozzo, Louisa Bradley, John Bray, Alessandro Bressan, Sylvain Breton, Daniele Brienza, Ana Brito, Matteo Brogi, Beverly Brown, David J. A. Brown, Allan Sacha Brun, Giovanni Bruno, Michael Bruns, Lars A. Buchhave, Lisa Bugnet, Gaël Buldgen, Patrick Burgess, Andrea Busatta, Giorgia Busso, Derek Buzasi, José A. Caballero, Alexandre Cabral, Juan-Francisco Cabrero Gomez, Flavia Calderone, Robert Cameron, Andrew Cameron, Tiago Campante, Néstor Campos Gestal, Bruno Leonardo Canto Martins, Christophe Cara, Ludmila Carone, Josep Manel Carrasco, Luca Casagrande, Sarah L. Casewell, Santi Cassisi, Marco Castellani, Matthieu Castro, Claude Catala, Irene Catalán Fernández, Márcio Catelan, Heather Cegla, Chiara Cerruti, Virginie Cessa, Merieme Chadid, William Chaplin, Stephane Charpinet, Cristina Chiappini, Simone Chiarucci, Andrea Chiavassa, Simonetta Chinellato, Giovanni Chirulli, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Ross Church, Antonio Claret, Cathie Clarke, Riccardo Claudi, Lionel Clermont, Hugo Coelho, Joao Coelho, Fabrizio Cogato, Josep Colomé, Mathieu Condamin, Fernando Conde García, Simon Conseil, Thierry Corbard, Alexandre C. M. Correia, Enrico Corsaro, Rosario Cosentino, Jean Costes, Andrea Cottinelli, Giovanni Covone, Orlagh L. Creevey, Aurelien Crida, Szilard Csizmadia, Margarida Cunha, Patrick Curry, Jefferson da Costa, Francys da Silva, Shweta Dalal, Mario Damasso, Cilia Damiani, Francesco Damiani, Maria Liduina das Chagas, Melvyn Davies, Guy Davies, Ben Davies, Gary Davison, Leandro de Almeida, Francesca de Angeli, Susana Cristina Cabral de Barros, Izan de CastroLeão, Daniel Brito de Freitas, Marcia
Turbulence in protoplanetary disks: A systematic analysis of dust settling in 33 disks
Astronomy & Astrophysics· 2025DOI
Marion Villenave, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Michiel Lambrechts, Alexandros Ziampras, Christophe Pinte, François Ménard, Karl R. Stapelfeldt, Gaspard Duchêne, Emily Baylock, Kiyoaki Doi
UV processing of icy pebbles in the outer parts of VSI-turbulent disks
Astronomy & Astrophysics· 2025DOI
Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Michiel Lambrechts, Sacha Gavino, Sebastian Lorek, Mario Flock, Anders Johansen, Andrea Mignone
Dust ring and gap formation by gas flow induced by low-mass planets embedded in protoplanetary disks II. Time-dependent model
A&A· 2024DOI
Ayumu Kuwahara, Michiel Lambrechts, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Satoshi Okuzumi, Takayuki Tanigawa
Formation of wide-orbit giant planets in protoplanetary disks with a decreasing pebble flux
Gurrutxaga , N , Johansen , A , Lambrechts , M & Appelgren , J 2024 , ' Formation of wide-orbit giant planets in protoplanetary disks with a decreasing pebble flux ' , Astronomy and Astrophysics , vol. 682 , A43 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348020· 2024DOI
Nerea Gurrutxaga; Anders Johansen; Michiel Lambrechts; Johan Appelgren
Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet
Astronomy & Astrophysics· 2024DOI
E. Lega, M. Benisty, A. Cridland, A. Morbidelli, M. Schulik, M. Lambrechts
How the presence of a giant planet affects the outcome of terrestrial planet formation simulations
A&A· 2024DOI
Zhihui Kong; Anders Johansen; Michiel Lambrechts; Jonathan H. Jiang; Zong-Hong Zhu
JWST Reveals Excess Cool Water near the Snow Line in Compact Disks, Consistent with Pebble Drift
The Astrophysical Journal Letters· 2024DOI
Andrea Banzatti, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, John S. Carr, Evan Jellison, Ilaria Pascucci, Joan R. Najita, Carlos E. Muñoz-Romero, Karin I. Öberg, Anusha Kalyaan, Paola Pinilla, Sebastiaan Krijt, Feng Long, Michiel Lambrechts, Giovanni Rosotti, Gregory J. Herczeg, Colette Salyk, Ke Zhang, Edwin A. Bergin, Nicholas P. Ballering, Michael R. Meyer, Simon Bruderer, null null
JWST/MIRI Detection of a Carbon-rich Chemistry in the Disk of a Solar Nebula Analog
The Astrophysical Journal· 2024DOI
María José Colmenares, Edwin A. Bergin, Colette Salyk, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Nicole Arulanantham, Jenny Calahan, Andrea Banzatti, Sean Andrews, Geoffrey A. Blake, Fred Ciesla, Joel Green, Feng 凤 Long 龙, Michiel Lambrechts, Joan Najita, Ilaria Pascucci, Paola Pinilla, Sebastiaan Krijt, Leon Trapman, null null
Rocky planet formation in compact disks around M dwarfs
Astronomy & Astrophysics· 2024DOI
M. Sanchez, N. van der Marel, M. Lambrechts, G. D. Mulders, O. M. Guerra-Alvarado
Thermal processing of primordial pebbles in evolving protoplanetary disks
Colmenares , M J , Lambrechts , M , Van Kooten , E & Johansen , A 2024 , ' Thermal processing of primordial pebbles in evolving protoplanetary disks ' , Astronomy and Astrophysics , vol. 685 , A114 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347737· 2024DOI
María José Colmenares; Michiel Lambrechts; Elishevah van Kooten; Anders Johansen
A Potential Site for Wide-orbit Giant Planet Formation in the IM Lup Disk
Bosman , A D , Appelgren , J , Bergin , E A , Lambrechts , M & Johansen , A 2023 , ' A Potential Site for Wide-orbit Giant Planet Formation in the IM Lup Disk ' , Astrophysical Journal Letters , vol. 944 , no. 2 , L53 . https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acb651· 2023DOI
Arthur D. Bosman; Johan Appelgren; Edwin A. Bergin; Michiel Lambrechts; Anders Johansen
Disc population synthesis: Decrease in the solid mass reservoir through pebble drift
Appelgren , J , Lambrechts , M & van der Marel , N 2023 , ' Disc population synthesis : Decrease in the solid mass reservoir through pebble drift ' , Astronomy & Astrophysics , vol. 673 , A139 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245252· 2023DOI
J. Appelgren; M. Lambrechts; N. van der Marel
The Effect of Dust Evolution and Traps on Inner Disk Water Enrichment
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 954, Iss 1, p 66 (2023)· 2023DOI
Anusha Kalyaan; Paola Pinilla; Sebastiaan Krijt; Andrea Banzatti; Giovanni Rosotti; Gijs D. Mulders; Michiel Lambrechts; Feng Long; Gregory J. Herczeg
Planet Formation Theory in the Era of ALMA and Kepler: from Pebbles to Exoplanets
Drazkowska , J , Bitsch , B , Lambrechts , M T A , Mulders , G D , Harsono , D , Vazan , A , Liu , B , Ormel , C W , Kretke , K & Morbidelli , A 2022 ' Planet Formation Theory in the Era of ALMA and Kepler : from Pebbles to Exoplanets ' arXiv.org . https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.09759· 2022DOI
Drazkowska, Joanna; Bitsch, Bertram; Lambrechts, Michiel Thomas A; Mulders, Gijs D.; Harsono, Daniel; Vazan, Allona; Liu, Beibei; Ormel, Chris W.; Kretke, Katherine; Morbidelli, Alessandro