Discovery of the Coldest Imaged Companion of a Sun-Like Star (2009)
Thalmann, Christian, Carson, Joseph, Janson, Markus, Goto, Miwa, McElwain, Michael, Egner, Sebastian, ...
We present the discovery of a brown dwarf or possible planet at a projected separation of 1.9" = 29 AU around the star GJ 758, placing it between the separations at which substellar companions are...
Mordasini, Christoph, Alibert, Yann, Benz, Willy
With the high number of extrasolar planets discovered by now, it becomes possible to constrain theoretical formation models in a statistical sense. This paper is the first in a series in which we...
Extrasolar planet population synthesis II: Statistical comparison with observation (2009)
Mordasini, Christoph, Alibert, Yann, Benz, Willy, Naef, Dominique
This is the second paper in a series of papers showing the results of extrasolar planet population synthesis calculations. In the companion paper (Paper I), we have presented in detail our methods....
New Jupiter and Saturn formation models meet observations (2005)
Alibert, Yann, Mousis, Olivier, Mordasini, Christoph, Benz, Willy
The wealth of observational data about Jupiter and Saturn provides strong constraints to guide our understanding of the formation of giant planets. The size of the core and the total amount of heavy...
Models of Giant Planet formation with migration and disc evolution (2004)
Alibert, Yann, Mordasini, Christoph, Benz, Willy, Winisdoerffer, Christophe
We present a new model of giant planet formation that extends the core-accretion model of Pollack etal (1996) to include migration, disc evolution and gap formation. We show that taking into account...