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Planet Formation in Binaries

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Spurred by the discovery of more than 60 exoplanets in multiple systems, binaries have become in recent years one of the main topics in planet-formation research. Numerous studies have investigated to what extent the presence of a stellar companion can affect the planet-formation process. Such studies have implications that can reach beyond the sole context of binaries, as they allow to test certain aspects of the planet-formation scenario by submitting them to extreme environments. We review here the current understanding on this complex problem. We show in particular how each of the different stages of the planet-formation process is affected differently by binary perturbations. We focus especially on the intermediate stage of kilometre-sized planetesimal accretion, which has proven to be the most sensitive to binarity and for which the presence of some exoplanets observed in tight binaries is difficult to explain by in situ formation following the “standard” planet-formation scenario. Some tentative solutions to this apparent paradox are presented. The last part of our review presents a thorough description of the problem of planet habitability, for which the binary environment creates a complex situation because of the presence of two irradiation sources of varying distance.

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    Although similar pioneering work on this issue had already been performed a decade earlier by Dvorak (1984, 1986) and Dvorak et al. (1989).

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    The simulations of Malmberg et al. (2007) were, however, only assuming a single, hypothetical, initial setup. More generic numerical investigations, exploring a wider range of possible initial conditions, should be carried out.

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Thebault, P., Haghighipour, N. (2015). Planet Formation in Binaries. In: Jin, S., Haghighipour, N., Ip, WH. (eds) Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45052-9_13

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