Studies in Planet Formation and Evolution

行星是如何形成的？何时何地？在我们太阳系的外围区域是否曾经有过其他行星 系统，有没有可能现在还有？巨行星的遥远卫星能告诉我们什么 这些类木行星的形成我们如何将我们对太阳系的研究知识联合收割机 我们在研究其他恒星周围的圆盘和行星时收集的信息？是如何 我们太阳系的小天体群形成和演化？它们目前的大小分布是否告诉我们 关于“星子”和行星是如何形成的吗 该NSERC拨款将在未来5年内支持与这些问题相关的一系列研究。一项前沿调查将 深入我们的外太阳系，探索保存下来的行星形成和行星迁移的记录 在太阳系的轨道结构中。 在同一时期，加拿大航天局的近地天体监视卫星空间望远镜将在我们的太阳附近斜视， 寻找那些在经过地球和金星接近我们的星星的危险旅程中幸存下来的小行星。 计算机模拟将用于支持这些观测项目和其他围绕行星托管的项目 来了解行星是如何形成的。

How did the planets form? When and where? Were there ever other planets in the outer regions of our Solar System, and is it possible that there still are? What can the distant satellites of the giant planets tell us about the formation of these jovian planets? How do we combine the knowledge of studies of our own Solar System with the information we are gathering in studying disks and planets around other stars? How did the small-body populations of our Solar System form and evolve? Does their current size distribution tell us anything about how 'planetesimals' and then planets formed? This NSERC grant will support a suite of research over the next 5 years related to these questions. A cutting-edge survey will peer deeply into our outer Solar System to explore the record of planet formation and planet migration preserved in the orbital structure of our Solar System. During the same period Canadian Space Agency's NEOSSat space telescope will be squinting near our Sun to look for asteroids that have survived the hazardous journey past Earth and Venus to approach our star. Computer simulations will be used to support these observational projects and others around planet-hosting nearby stars, to understand how planets are assembled.