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Pebble Accretion

Pebble Accretion is a planetary formation mechanism in which centimeter- to meter-sized solid particles in a protoplanetary disk are gravitationally captured by growing planetary embryos, enabling rapid mass growth through aerodynamic drag-induced orbital decay.

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2017–2026

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Rapid growth of gas-giant cores by pebble accretion

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2012 · 854 citations · Full text

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Forming the cores of giant planets from the radial pebble flux in protoplanetary discs

Michiel Lambrechts, Anders Johansen · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2014 · 455 citations · Full text

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Separating gas-giant and ice-giant planets by halting pebble accretion

Michiel Lambrechts, Anders Johansen, A. Morbidelli · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2014 · 450 citations · Full text

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The growth of planets by pebble accretion in evolving protoplanetary discs

Bertram Bitsch, Michiel Lambrechts, Anders Johansen · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015 · 429 citations · Full text

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Forming Planets via Pebble Accretion

Anders Johansen, Michiel Lambrechts · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2017 · 423 citations

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Authors

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  1. BB
    Bertram Bitsch

    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany

    22 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. AJ
    Anders Johansen

    Lund University, Sweden

    23 publications · 3.8K citations

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  3. ML
    Michiel Lambrechts

    Lund University, Sweden

    14 publications · 3.3K citations

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  4. AM
    Alessandro Morbidelli

    Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France

    11 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. CW
    Chris W. Ormel

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    8 publications · 443 citations

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Institutions

229

  1. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    26 h-index

    67 publications

    11.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    24 h-index

    50 publications

    5.3K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    24 h-index

    68 publications

    4.7K citations

  4. Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

    Nice, France

    16 h-index

    21 publications

    2.4K citations

  5. Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    15 h-index

    30 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    15 h-index

    36 publications

    2K citations

  7. Life Science Institute

    Tokyo, Japan

    13 h-index

    21 publications

    944 citations

  8. Université Côte d'Azur

    Nice, France

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    67 publications · 6.4K citations

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  2. 19

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  3. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 22 publications · 715 citations

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  4. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

    Repository · 12 publications · 958 citations

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  5. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 7 publications · 378 citations

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