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Planet Formation and Small Bodies in the Solar System
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Planet Formation and Small Bodies in the Solar System

Planet Formation
Mitglieder der AG Planetenentstehung in Vorbereitung eines Parabelflugs Fallturm für Experimente im freien Fall Fallturm für Experimente im freien Fall mit mitfallender Highspeedkamera Fallturm für Experimente im freien Fall mit mitfallender Highspeedkamera Dunkelwolke Bok-Globule Barnard 68 Alexander Landeck während eines Parabelflugs Flugzeug, welches für Parabelflüge genutzt wird Mitglieder der AG Planetenentstehung vor einem Parabelflugzeug Experiment-Vorbereitung mit Staubproben animiertes Agglomerat Mit dem Hubble Space Telescope wurden im Sternbild Orion so genannte protoplanetare Scheiben gefunden. Komet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Raytracing Set-up Levitationstrommel Staubwolke in Levitationstrommel Großes Agglomerat

The working group Planet Formation and small bodies in the Solar System deals on the one hand with the investigation of the conditions under which the astronomically observable small dust particles around young stars agglomerate into larger clumps. On the other hand, numerous small bodies in the Solar System are objects of research, whereby the small also includes moons.

In contrast to other working groups on this topic, experiments are carried out at the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics to research the growth of solid bodies in young planetary systems. Some of these tests take place under microgravity conditions in the drop tower in Bremen or during parabolic flights.

An international test facility for studying the interactions between cosmic and atmospheric particles on the International Space Station ISS is currently being developed under the direction of the institute.

In the field of teaching, lectures on astrophysics and planetology are offered on a regular basis. In addition, the astrophysical internship - "Astroprak" for short - is offered. Master’s students are given a research task of current interest in which they carry out experiments in the laboratory or work with computer simulations in order to get to know research practice better.

 

Dark Cloud Bok-Globule Barnard 68

Stars can form in dark clouds like the Bok globule Barnard 68 shown here. The dark shape and the shielding of the light from the stars behind it is done by a multitude of tiny dust particles, the physical properties of which are being investigated at the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics.

 

With the Hubble Space Telescope, so-called protoplanetary disks were found in the constellation Orion.

With the Hubble Space Telescope, so-called protoplanetary disks were found in the constellation Orion. Our solar system was also formed in such a disk 4.6 billion years ago. Our working group deals with this process.

 

Animated agglomerate

Reconstruction of a dust agglomerate generated during a space shuttle flight. In this microgravity experiment, a cloud of tiny particles was evenly distributed in a dilute gas. Brownian motion of the particles caused adhesive impacts, which led to the open structure shown. The beginning of the planet formation should proceed in the same way.

 

Projects

Comet Physics Laboratory (CoPhyLab)

Formation and evolution of dwarf planets and small bodies

Lunar regolith properties from the interpretation of surface temperatures

Collisions of dust and ice particles in protoplanetary disks and their application to early planet formation

 

 

Report from TU Magazin (German)

Blick zurück in frühe Stadien des Sonnensystems

Eisige Kometenfelsen so weich wie Asche

Verdunstung formte Asteroiden

Reports in the TV (German)

nano - Planetengeburt im Labor

nano - "Kometen sind ein physikalisches Labor"

 

Completed Projects


Optical properties of protoplanetary matter

Constraining planetesimal-formation models by comet observations

Debris Disks in Planetary Systems

Regolith Dynamics

 

The Team

Head Prof. Dr. Jürgen Blum
Scientific Staff
Ingo von Borstel
Johanna Bürger
Dr. Christopher Kreuzig
Dr. Gerwin Meier
Dr. Rainer Schräpler
Dr. Yuri Skorov
Guest Scientists
Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Uwe Keller
Noah Molinski
Christian Schuckart
Coskun Aktas
Students
Khalil Taha Akel
Calvin Knoop
Philipp Mayer
Maximilian Schulz-Müllensiefen
Victoria Muthig
Navid Nobahar
Jonathan Pfeifer
Luis Langermann
Polina Skachkova
Maximilian Timpe
Eric Volkhardt
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