Water delivery to dry protoplanets by hit-and-run collisions

Author(s)
Christoph Burger, Thomas I. Maindl, Christoph Schäfer
Abstract

Final water inventories of newly formed terrestrial planets are shaped by their collision history. A setting where volatiles are transported from beyond the snowline to habitable-zone planets suggests collisions of very dry with water-rich bodies. By means of smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations we study water delivery in scenarios where a dry target is hit by a water-rich projectile, focusing on hit-and-run encounters with two large surviving bodies, which probably comprise about half of all similar-sized collisions (Genda et al. 2017).

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
External organisation(s)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Journal
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Volume
14
Pages
287-288
No. of pages
2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921318008621
Publication date
01-2020
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/f76949aa-a74d-473b-b2bb-15eb8abeed9c