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The Birth Environment of the Solar System
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This review examines our current understanding of the possible birth environments of our Solar System. Because most stars form within groups and clusters, the question becomes one of determining the nature of the birth aggregate of the Sun. This discussion starts by reviewing Solar System properties that provide constraints on our environmental history. We then outline the range of star-forming environments that are available in the Galaxy and discuss how they affect star and planet formation. The nature of the solar birth cluster is constrained by many physical considerations, including radiation fields provided by the background environment, dynamical scattering interactions, and by the necessity of producing the short-lived radioactive nuclear species inferred from meteoritic measurements. Working scenarios for the solar birth aggregate can be constructed, as discussed herein, although significant uncertainties remain.
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“Importantly, this broadening is expected, given that the solar system almost certainly originated within a star cluster (see Adams 2010; Arakawa & Kokubo 2023), and the orbital distribution of TNOs would have been affected by cluster dynamics within the first ∼100 Myr of the solar system's evolution.”
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“Various lines of evidence indicate the solar system did not originate in isolation, and instead formed within a cluster of 10 3 10 4 stars (Adams and Laughlin 2001; Portegies Zwart 2009; Adams 2010; Pfalzner et al. 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Adams, F. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Adams, Fred C.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2010-08-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 47-85
- ISSN
- 0066-4146 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4282
- OpenAlex
- W2159354014
- Cited by
- 464
- References
- 136
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- FWCI
- 1.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Keywords
- star formation, planet formation, radiation field, dynamical scattering, short-lived radionuclides, meteorites, solar system formation
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