Formation of planetary systems

 

The recent and ongoing discovery of large numbers of extra solar planets together with the detection of disks around young stars raise the question of how and in what environment planets form and what gives rise to the diversity of the detected planetary systems. My research interests span all aspects of planet formation. In the past, I have worked on the formation of Kuiper belt binaries, on the origin of planetary spins and on the velocity evolution of planetesimals and protoplanets during different stages of planet formation.

 

Publications:

The Creation of Haumea's Collisional Family

Schlichting & Sari 2009, arXiv:0906.3893

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The Ratio of Retrograde to Prograde Orbits:

A Test for Kuiper Belt Binary Formation Theories

Schlichting & Sari 2008, ApJ, 686, 741

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Formation of Kuiper Belt Binaries

Schlichting & Sari 2008, ApJ, 673, 1218

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The Self-Similarity of Shear-dominated Viscous Stirring

Collins, Schlichting & Sari 2007, AJ, 133, 2389

The Effect of Semicollisional Accretion on Planetary Spins

Schlichting & Sari 2007, ApJ, 658, 593

A study of a long water detector for cosmic-ray studies

Gebauer, Lorenz, Mirzoyan, Schlichting & Steinbügl 2004, NIM, A518, 198

 

 

 

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