• DOI:10.1086/505596
Corpus ID: 14298813

The Search for Other Earths: Limits on the Giant Planet Orbits That Allow Habitable Terrestrial Planets to Form

@article{Raymond2006TheSF,
  title={The Search for Other Earths: Limits on the Giant Planet Orbits That Allow Habitable Terrestrial Planets to Form},
  author={S. Raymond},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2006},
  volume={643}
}

S. Raymond

Published 2006

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

Gas giant planets are far easier than terrestrial planets to detect around other stars, and they are thought to form much more quickly than terrestrial planets. Thus, in systems with giant planets, the late stages of terrestrial planet formation are strongly affected by the giant planets' dynamical presence. Observations of giant planet orbits may therefore constrain the systems that can harbor potentially habitable, Earth-like planets. We present results of 460 N-body simulations of… CONTINUE READING

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